Environment Canada and Mercator Ocean joined in a cutting-edge scientific collaboration for data assimlation and “ocean-ice” modeling domains thanks to a memorandum of understanding led by Meteo France.
One of the missions of the Canadian Ministry “Environment Canada” is to predict weather conditions on a daily basis and to provide detailed predictions to its citizens. In 2004, Environment Canada and Mercator Ocean joined in a cutting-edge scientific collaboration for data assimlation and “ocean-ice” modeling domains thanks to a memorandum of understanding led by Meteo France.
11 years later, on August 20th 2015, Environment Canada launches its operational ice-ocean prediction system. This service is based on a Global ice-ocean prediction system (GIOPS). GIOPS provides global analysis and predictions of the ocean and the marien ice on a daily basis over the course of 10 days. It assimilates satellite observations (sea height anomaly, sea surface temperature) and in situ (temperature and salinity). Mercator Ocean contributed to this success thanks to its skills and expertise about ocean assimilation and modeling.
«GIOPS launch is a success for Canada and a major achievement of the collaboration between Mercator Ocean and Environment Canada!»
Gilles Garric Innovation Team Lead R&D Department Mercator Ocean
«We leveraged Mercator’s innovations to develop a global predicting system suited for the needs of our country [Canada].»
Pierre Pellerin Research Director Environmental Digital Prediction Research Meteorological Research Division Environment Canada
