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Les 17 octobre et 21 novembre, l’Académie des sciences a remis l’ensemble des prix et médailles qu’elle a attribués en 2023. Karina von Schuckmann, océanographe experte dans la relation océan-climat à la direction scientifique de Mercator Ocean International, a été…

Du 19 au 21 septembre 2023, le siège de la Commission océanographique intergouvernementale (COI) de l’UNESCO a accueilli l’Assemblée générale finale d’EuroSea et le Symposium d’EuroSea sur l’observation et la prévision océaniques à Paris. Ces deux événements ont réuni des…

Key take-aways: This year there was a drastic drop in sea ice on a global scale caused by a combination of the now usual major melting during the northern hemisphere spring in the Arctic, and the significant lack of sea…

L’équipe de co-conception des prévisions océaniques (OFCT) a été créée dans le cadre du Centre de collaboration de la décennie OceanPrediction (OceanPrediction DCC) et sa mission principale est de concevoir une architecture unique, afin d’unifier la mise en œuvre des…

On 22 September 2023, Mercator Ocean International (MOi) participated once again in the Forum Mondial de la Mer-Bizerte (World’s Sea Forum-Bizerte) – in its 6th edition. MOi’s Director General Pierre Bahurel presented during the session “Geopolitics of the oceans: what…

For the past several months, the temperature of the ocean’s surface, which has already risen by 0.88 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the pre-industrial era due to global warming,[1] has risen to unprecedented levels. Marine heatwaves have already been…

The Antarctic sea ice extent for May and June have reached record lows, by a significant margin, since the beginning of satellite records. The large deficits of sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, and the western part of…

The OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (DCC), hosted by Mercator Ocean International (MOi) and launched in January 2023, aims to a predicted Ocean based on a shared and coordinated global effort in the framework of the UN Ocean Decade. To accomplish…