HR: 14:40h
AN: OS33C-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Ocean Forecasting and Monitoring Products for Scientific Community: the Mercator Ocean portfolio of Services and the future European Marine Core Service
AU: * Toumazou, V
EM: vincent.toumazou@mercator-ocean.fr
AF: Mercator Ocean, 8-10 rue Hermes, Parc Technologique du Canal, Ramonville, 31520, France
AU: Vinay, G
EM: gvinay@mercator-ocean.fr
AF: MGC, 2bis rue Marcel Doret, Blagnac, 31700, France
AU: Baudel, S
EM: sbaudel@cls.Fr
AF: CLS, 8-10 rue Hermes, Parc Technologique du Canal, Ramonville, 31520, France
AU: Palin, D
EM: dpalin@mercator-ocean.fr
AF: Mercator Ocean, 8-10 rue Hermes, Parc Technologique du Canal, Ramonville, 31520, France
AU: Kempa, D
EM: dkempa@mercator-ocean.fr
AF: Mercator Ocean, 8-10 rue Hermes, Parc Technologique du Canal, Ramonville, 31520, France
AU: Bahurel, P
EM: pbahurel@mercator-ocean.fr
AB: Mercator Ocean is a French public consortium formed in Toulouse in early 2002 by the six major players in the French oceanography community: the space agency CNES, the scientific research centre CNRS, IFREMER (the institute of marine research and exploration), the development research institute IRD, the Météo France weather service, and SHOM (the French Navy's hydrography & oceanography department). The services offered by Mercator-Ocean consist in a real-time general description of the physical state of the ocean (3D currents, salinity, temperature…) in order to provide the users' community with a wide range of ocean products. Many downstream activities are served in that framework covering applications like scientific research, off-shore, ship routing, environment and security (within the GMES European program). Within the future European Marine Core Service, Mercator Ocean as project leader and its partners will propose an extended portfolio of products and services covering a large part of the scientists' needs (coastal modelling, biology, climate…). In this talk, a review of the systems operated by Mercator Ocean will be proposed. In addition, a description of the products and services made available by both Mercator Ocean and the Marine Core Service will be given with a special focus on the part dedicated to the scientific community.
UR: http://www.mercator-ocean.fr/
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting