Charles Desportes, Marie Drévillon, Bruno Levier, Charly Régnier
(MERCATOR OCEAN/Production Dep./Products Quality)

Eric Greiner (CLS)
Jean-Michel Lellouche, Olivier Le Galloudec, Anne Daudin (MERCATOR OCEAN/ Production Dep./R&D)

Eric Greiner, Mounir Benkiran, Nathalie Verbrugge, Hélène Etienne (CLS)
Fabrice Hernandez, Laurence Crosnier (MERCATOR OCEAN)
Nicolas Ferry, Gilles Garric, Jean-Michel Lellouche (MERCATOR OCEAN)
Jean-Marc Molines (CNRS), Sébastien Theeten (Ifremer), Mélanie Juza (IMEDEA), the DRAKKAR and
NEMO groups.
Nicolas Pene (ex-AKKA), Silvana Buarque (Météo-France), the BCG group (Météo-France, CERFACS)

This bulletin gives an estimate of the accuracy of MERCATOR OCEAN’s analyses and forecast
for the season of January-February-March 2012. It also provides a summary of useful
information on the context of the production for this period. Diagnostics will be displayed for
the global 1/12° (PSY4), global ¼° (PSY3) and the Atlantic and Mediterranean zoom at 1/12°
(PSY2) monitoring and forecasting systems currently producing daily 3D temperature salinity
and current products.