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Major references:
Mercator Ocean is involved in
major projects with EC :
Mersea, Roses, Marcoast,
Eccop, Easy, Boss4GMES
and is the coordinator of My
Ocean. It is the data provider
for : French navy, Ifremer,
CNRS, Ird, Meteo France .
Key partners:
CNES, CNRS, Ifremer, Ird,
Meteo France and Shom.
MERCATOR OCEAN
Presentation of the Company:
MERCATOR OCEAN is a French public company entirely
devoted to operational oceanography. Based in Toulouse, it was
founded in April 2002 to strengthen the development of an
operational high resolution global ocean monitoring and
forecasting capacity.
MERCATOR OCEAN performs as a consortium company (GIP),
supported by the six major French institutes involved in
oceanography, namely CNES (Space Agency), CNRS (National
Research Center), IFREMER (Research Institute for the
Exploitation of the Sea), IRD (Research Institute for Development),
Météo-France and SHOM (Hydrographic and Oceanographic
Service of the Navy).
MERCATOR OCEAN is in charge of the Ocean Monitoring and
Forecasting Center development and operation, both for the
current pre-operational phase and for the evolution towards an
operational centre. Key actor of the GMES Ocean Component
development, MERCATOR OCEAN is coordinating the
MyOcean project aiming to develop the European Marine Core
Service.
Key Products and Services
MERCATOR OCEAN is specifically tasked to:
• provide routinely and in near-real-time a three
dimensional depiction of the global ocean to serve a wide
range of marine applications - from research, public (military
and civilian) state application, to commercial oceanography
services - and contribute to the development of a seasonal
and climate forecasting system by providing ocean initial
conditions for ocean/atmosphere coupled models.
• prepare the evolution towards an Operational
Oceanography Center dedicated to Global Ocean
Monitoring and Forecasting ; and build and enhance the
Marine Core Service for operational oceanography.
MERCATOR OCEAN forecasters provide weekly ocean bulletins
to end-users, available on http://www.mercator-ocean.fr,
operating a 3D high resolution (1/15°) depiction of North Atlantic
and Mediterranean Sea, and since 2005 the first European
demonstrator on global ocean with a ¼° resolution. Research sea
campaigns, oil spill trajectory prediction, navy operations,
offshore, sailing races, fisheries … are some of the current
applications served by the Mercator system.
As part of its activity, MERCATOR OCEAN developed a growing
expertise on real time use of in-situ and remote sensed data,
which relies on as various technical and scientific competences
such as data validation, development of numerical model and
associated data assimilation scheme, routine operation of an
ocean forecasting system, scientific validation and assessment of
the system outputs to meet intermediate and end-user needs.
Contact details
Contact person: ADRAGNA Frédéric
8-10, rue Hermès , Parc Technologique du canal
31520 - Ramonville St Agne - France
Tel. : +33 5 61 39 38 02 / Fax : +33 561393899
Email : frederic.adragna@mercator-ocean.fr
Website
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