Scientific Publications

Mercator Ocean Co-Authors

1. Artana, C. , Lellouche, J. , Park, Y. , Garric, G. , Koenig, Z. , Sennéchael, N. , Ferrari, R. , Piola, A. R., Saraceno, M. and Provost, C. 2018. Fronts of the Malvinas Current System: surface and subsurface expressions revealed by satellite altimetry, Argo floats, and Mercator operational model outputs, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2018JC013887.
2. M. Athanase, N.Sennéchael, G. Garric, Z. Koenig, E. Boles and C. Provost, 2018, Western Eurasian  Basin in 2017 reveal fresher mixed layer and shallower warm layer than 2005-2012 climatology; accepted for publications in J. Geophys. Res. Oceans.
3. Bonaduce, A., Benkiran, M., Remy, E., Le Traon, P. Y., and Garric, G.: Contribution of future wide-swath altimetry missions to ocean analysis and forecasting, Ocean Sci., 14, 1405-1421, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1405-2018, 2018
4. Clément Bricaud, Gilles Garric, Yann Drillet, Hao Zuo, Andrea Storto and Karina von Schuckmann, 2018. Mass and heat transports. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s49
5. Drevillon et al, 2018. Learning about Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service “CMEMS”:A Practical Introduction to the Use of the European Operational Oceanography Service. In “New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography”, E. Chassignet, A. Pascual, J. Tintoré, and J. Verron, Eds., GODAE OceanView, 1-26, doi:10.17125/gov2018.ch25
6. Marie Drévillon, Jonathan Tinker, Romain Bourdallé-Badie, Eric Greiner, Hélène Etienne, Marie-Hélène Rio, Yann Drillet and Fabrice Hernandez, 2018 Currents. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap1, s16
7. Marie Drévillon, Jean-François Legeais, Andrea Storto, K. Andrew Peterson, Hao Zuo, Marie-Hélène Rio, Yann Drillet and Eric Greiner, 2018. Western boundary currents. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s60
8. Clotilde Dubois, Karina von Schuckmann, Simon Josey and Adrien Ceschin, 2018. Changes in the North Atlantic. Coperni
9. Gilles Garric, Olga Hernandez, Clement Bricaud, Andrea Storto, Kenneth Andrew Peterson and Hao Zuo, 2018. Arctic ocean freshwater content. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s70
10. Garric G., L. Parent, E. Greiner, M. Drévillon, M. Hamon, JM Lellouche, C. Régnier, C. Desportes, O. Le Galloudec, C. Bricaud, Y. Drillet, F. Hernandez, C. Dubois and P-Y. Le Traon (2018), Performance and quality assessment of the global ocean eddy-permitting physical reanalysis GLORYS2V4 Operational Oceanography serving Sustainable Marine Development. Proceedings of the Eight EuroGOOS International Conference. 3-5 October 2017, Bergen, Norway. E. Buch, V. Fernandez, G. Nolan and D. Eparkhina (Eds.) EuroGOOS. Brussels, Belgium. 2018. ISBN 978-2-9601883-3-2. 516 pp.
11. Gasparin F., K. von Schuckmann, C. Desportes, S. Sathyendranath, S., Prado, E. Greiner, C. Dubois, 2017. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, in “The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report”, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Issue 2, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s56.
12. Gasparin et al., 2018. A global view of the 2007-2015 oceanic variability in the global high resolution monitoring and forecasting system at Mercator-Ocean, Journal of Marine Systems, 187, 260-276, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.06.015.
13. Elodie Gutknecht, Aurélien Paulmier and Coralie Perruche, 2018. Oxygen minimum zones. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s53
14. Hernandez F, et al, 2018. Measuring Performances, Skill and Accuracy in Operational Oceanography:New Challenges and Approaches. In “New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography”, E. Chassignet, A. Pascual, J. Tintoré, and J. Verron, Eds., GODAE OceanView, 1-26, doi:10.17125/gov2018.ch29
15. Laura Jackson, Clotilde Dubois, Simona Masina, Andrea Storto and Hao Zuo, 2018. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s65
16. Jourdain, N., J. M. Molines, J. Le Sommer, P. Mathiot, J. Chanut, C. De Lavergne and G. Madec, 2018: SImulating or prescribing the influence of tides on the Amundsen Sea ice shelves. Ocean Modelling, 133, 44-55.
17. Kumar V., A. Melet, B. Meyssignac, A. Ganachaud, W.S. Kessler, A. Singh, J. Aucan (2018). « Reconstruction of local sea-levels at south west Pacific islands – a multiple linear regression approach (1988-2014) ». Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/2017JC013053.
18. Law Chune, S., & Aouf, L. (2018). Wave effects in global ocean modeling: parametrizations vs. forcing from a wave model. Ocean Dynamics, 1-20.
19. Jean-François Legeais, Karina von Schuckmann, Angelique Melet, Andrea Storto and Benoit Meyssignac, 2018. Sea Level. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap1, s13
20. Lellouche et al., 2018. The Mercator Ocean Global High Resolution Monitoring and Forecasting System, GODAE Ocean View book, Chapter 20, New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography, Editors: E.P. Chassignet, A/ Pascual, J. Tintore, and J. Verron, GODAE OceanView, 815 pp, https://doi.org/10.17125/gov2018
21. Lellouche et al., 2018. Recent updates on the Copernicus Marine Service global ocean monitoring and forecasting real-time 1/12° high resolution system, Ocean Sci., 14, 1093-1126, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1093-2018.
22. Lellouche et al., 2018. Performance and quality assessment of the current Copernicus Marine Service   global ocean monitoring and forecasting real-time system, Proceedings of the 8th Eurogoos International Conference, 251-260.
23. Lengaigne, M., Neetu, S., Samson, G., Vialard, J., Krishnamohan, K. S., Masson, S., … Menkes, C. E. (2018). Influence of air-sea coupling on Indian Ocean tropical cyclones. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4152-0
24. Pierre-Yves Le Traon, 2018. Satellites and Operational Oceanography.In “New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography”, E. Chassignet, A. Pascual, J. Tintoré, and J. Verron, Eds., GODAE OceanView, 1-26, doi:10.17125/gov2018.ch07
25. Melet A., B. Meyssignac, R. Almar, G. Le Cozannet (2018). « Underestimated wave contributions to coastal sea level rise ». Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0088-y.
26. Sandrine Mulet, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli, Simon Good, Andrea Pisano, Eric Greiner, Maeva Monier, Emmanuelle Autret, Lars Axell, Fredrik Boberg, Stefania Ciliberti, Marie Drévillon, Riccardo Droghei, Owen Embury, Jérome Gourrion, Jacob Høyer, Mélanie Juza, John Kennedy, Benedicte Lemieux-Dudon, Elisaveta Peneva, Rebecca Reid, Simona Simoncelli, Andrea Storto, Jonathan Tinker, Karina von Schuckmann and Sarah L. Wakelin, 2018. Ocean temperature and salinity. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap1, s5
27. Álvaro Pascual, Bruno Levier, Marcos Sotillo, Nathalie Verbrugge, Roland Aznar and Bernard Le Cann, 2018. Characterisation of Mediterranean outflow water in the Iberia-Gulf of Biscay-Ireland region. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap3, s91
28. Coralie Perruche, Cosimo Solidoro and Gianpiero Cossarini , 2018. Nitrates. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap1, s26
29. Coralie Perruche, Cosimo Solidoro and Gianpiero Cossarini , 2018. Sea-to-air carbon flux. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap1, s29
30. Annette Samuelsen, Gilles Garric, Roshin P. Raj, Lars Axell, Hao Zuo, K. Andrew Peterson, Signe Aaboe, Andrea Storto, Thomas Lavergne and Lars-Anders Breivik, 2018.  Sea Ice. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap1, s20
31. Andreas Schiller, Baptiste Mourre, Yann Drillet, Gary Brassington; 2018.: An overview of operational oceanography. In “New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography”, E. Chassignet, A. Pascual, J. Tintoré, and J. Verron, Eds., GODAE OceanView, 1-26, doi:10.17125/gov2018.ch01.
32. Sherin, V. R., Durand, F., Gopalkrishna, V. V., Anuvinda, S., Chaitanya, A. V. S., Bourdallé-Badie, R., & Papa, F. (2018). Signature of Indian Ocean Dipole on the western boundary current of the Bay of Bengal. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 136, 91-106.
33. Simona Simoncelli, Nadia Pinardi, Claudia Fratianni, Clotilde Dubois, Giulio Notarstefano, 2018. Water mass formation processes in the Mediterranean sea over the past 30 years. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap3, s96
34. Andrea Storto, Karina von Schuckmann, Jean-François Legeais, Tanguy Szerkely, K. Andrew Peterson, Hao Zuo and Gilles Garric , 2018. Steric sea level. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s45
35. A. Storto, S. Masina, Simona Simoncelli, D. Iovino, A. Cipollone, M. Drevillon, Yann Drillet, K. von Schuckman, L. Parent, G. Garric, E. Greiner, C. Desportes, H. Zuo, M. A. Balmaseda, K. A. Peterson, 2018, The added value of the multi-system spread information for ocean heat content and steric sea level investigations in the CMEMS GREP ensemble reanalysis product, accepted for publications in Climate Dynamics.
36. Petteri Uotila, Hugues Goosse, Keith Haines, Matthieu Chevallier, Antoine Barthélemy, Clément Bricaud, Jim Carton, Neven Fučkar, Gilles Garric, Doroteaciro Iovino, Frank Kauker, Meri Korhonen, Vidar S. Lien, Marika Marnela, François Massonnet, Davi Mignac, K. Andrew Peterson, Remon Sadikni, Li Shi, Steffen Tietsche, Takahiro Toyoda, Jiping Xie, and Zhaoru Zhang (2018). An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions. Climate Dynamics, 1-38.
37. Verrier et al., 2018. Assessing the impact of SAR altimetry for global ocean analysis and forecasting, J. Operational Oceanography, 11:2, 82-86, DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2018.1505028.
38. Verron J., Bonnefond P., Aouf L., Birol F., Bhowmick S. A., Calmant Stéphane, Conchy T., Crétaux J. F., Dibarboure G., Dubey A. K., Faugere Y., Guerreiro K., Gupta P. K., Hamon M., Jebri F., Kumar R., Morrow R., Pascual A., Pujol M. I., Rémy E., Rémy F., Smith W. H. F., Tournadre J., Vergara O. (2018). The benefits of the Ka-band as evidenced from the SARAL/AltiKa altimetric mission : scientific applications. Remote Sensing, 10 (2), art. 163 [32p.]. ISSN 2072-4292
39. Karina von Schuckmann, Andrea Storto, Simona Simoncelli, Roshin P. Raj, Annette Samuelsen, Alvaro de Pascual Collar, Marcos Garcia Sotillo, Tanguy Szerkely, Michael Mayer, K. Andrew Peterson, Hao Zuo, Gilles Garric and Maeva Monier, 2018.  Ocean heat content. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap2, s41
40. von Schuckmann, K., P.-Y. Le Traon, N. Smith, A. Pascual, P. Brasseur, K. Fennel, S. Djavidnia (2018) Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, 11:sup1, s1–s142, DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2018.1489208
41. Hao Zuo, Vidar S. Lien, Anne Britt Sandø, Gilles Garric, Clement Bricaud, K. Andrew Peterson, Andrea Storto, Steffen Tietsche and Michael Mayer, 2018. Extreme sea ice conditions. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 2, Journal of Operational Oceanography, Chap4, s120

Mercator Ocean Co-Authors

1. Alberty M., J. Sprintall, J. MacKinnon, A. Ganachaud, S. Cravatte, G. Eldin, C. Germineaud, A. Melet (2017). « Spatial Patterns of Mixing in the Solomon Sea ». Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 122, doi:10.1002/2016JC012666.
2. Bentamy, A., J.-F. Piollé, A. Grouazel; R. Danielson, S. Gulev; F. Paul, H. Azelmat, P.-P. Marhieu, K. Von Schuckmann, S. Sathyendranah, H. King, I. Ezau, J. Johannessen, C.-A. Clayson; R. Pinker; S. Grodsky; M. Bourassa, S. Smith, K. Haines, M. Valdivieso, C. Merchant, B. Chapron, A. Anderson, S. Josey, 2017: Towards Improved Estimation 1 of Turbulent Heat Flux over the Global Oceans, System for Remote Sensing of Environment, in press.
3. Birol F., N. Fuller, F. Lyard , M. Cancet, F. Niño, C. Delebecque, S. Fleury, F. Toublanc, A. Melet, M. Saraceno, F. Léger (2017). « Coastal applications from nadir altimetry: example of the X-TRACK regional products ». Advances in Space Research, vol 59, pp. 936-953, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2016.11.005.
4. Chambers, D. P., Cazenave, A., Champollion, N., Dieng, H., Llovel, W., Forsberg, R., … & Wada, Y. (2017). Evaluation of the global mean sea level budget between 1993 and 2014. In Integrative Study of the Mean Sea Level and Its Components (pp. 315-333). Springer, Cham.
5. Cipollini P., F. M. Calafat, S. Jevrejeva, A. Melet, P. Prandi (2017). « Monitoring sea level in the coastal zone with satellite altimetry and tide gauges ». Surveys in Geophysics, vol 38(1), pp. 33-57, doi: 10.1007/s10712-016-9392-0.
6. Dieng, H.B., A. Cazenave, B. Meyssignac, K. von Schuckmann and H. Palanisamy, 2017: Sea and land surface temperatures, ocean heat content, Earth’s energy imbalance and net radiative forcing over the recent years, International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.4996.
7. Drévillon M, M Balmaseda, F Gasparin, K von Schuckmann, E Greiner, 2016. The 2015 El Niño event, in “The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report”, Issue 1, Journal of Operational Oceanography, 9.
8. Gasparin, F., D. Roemmich, 2017: The seasonal march of the equatorial Pacific upper-ocean and its El Nino variability, Progress in Oceanography, 156, 1-16
9. Hansen, J., M. Sato, P. Kharecha, K. von Schuckmann, D.J. Beerling, J. Cao, S. Marcott, V. Masson-Delmotte, M.J. Prather, E.J. Rohling, J. Shakun, P. Smith, 2017: Young People’s Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions, Earth Syst. Dynam., 8, 577–616, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-577-2017.
10. Hernandez O., Jouanno J., Echevin V., Aumont O., (2017) Modification of sea surface temperature by chlorophyll concentration in the Atlantic upwelling systems.  Journal of Geophysical Research : Oceans, 122 (7), 5367-5389. ISSN 2169-9275
11. Jordà, G., K. von Schuckmann, S. Josey, G. Caniaux, J. García-Lafuente, S. Sammartino, C. Naranjo, E. Özsoy, J. Polcher, G. Notarstefano, P. Poulain, S. Somot, F. Adloff, J. Salat, K. Schroeder, J. Chiggiato, G. Sannino, D. Macías-Moy, 2017: The Mediterranean Sea Heat and Mass Budgets. Estimations, Uncertainties and Perspectives, Progress of Oceanography, in press,       https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2017.07.001.
12. Jouanno J., Hernandez O. and Sanchez E. (2017)  Equatorial Atlantic interannual variability and its relation to dynamic and thermodynamic processes. Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2017-58 Accepted 30th October 2017.
13. Hossain F. et al. (2017). Engaging the User Community for Advancing Societal Applications of the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. September 2017. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98(11) https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0161.1.
14. Zoé Koenig, Christine Provost, Nicolas Villacieros-Robineau, Nathalie Sennéchael, Amelie Meyer, Jean-Michel Lellouche and Gilles Garric (2017) Atlantic Waters inflow north of Svalbard: insights from IAOOS observations and Mercator Ocean global operational system during N-ICE2015, JGR-Oceans, doi:. 10.1002/2016JC012424.
15. Koenig, Z., Provost, C., Sennéchael, N., Garric, G., & Gascard, J. C. (2017). The Yermak Pass Branch: A Major Pathway for the Atlantic Water North of Svalbard?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(12), 9332-9349..
16. Brossier, C. L., Léger, F., Giordani, H., Beuvier, J., Bouin, M. N., Ducrocq, V., & Fourrié, N. (2017). Dense water formation in the north‐western Mediterranean area during HyMeX‐SOP2 in 1/36° ocean simulations: Ocean‐atmosphere coupling impact. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(7), 5749-5773.
17. P.Y. Le Traon1, A. Ali7, E. Alvarez Fanjul26, L. Aouf12, L. Axell3, R. Aznar26, M. Ballarotta2, A. Behrens21, M. Benkiran1, A. Bentamy5, L. Bertino7, P. Bowyer27, V. Brando30, L. A. Breivik3, B. Buongiorno Nardelli29, S. Cailleau1, S. A. Ciliberti8, E.Clementi9, S. Colella30, N. Mc Connell11, G. Coppini8, G. Cossarini24, T. Dabrowski27, M. de Alfonso Alonso-Muñoyerro26, E. O’Dea11, C. Desportes1, F. Dinessen3, M. Drevillon1, Y. Drillet1, M. Drudi9, R. Dussurget1, Y. Faugère2, V. Forneris30, C. Fratianni9, O. Le Galloudec1, I. Garcia Hermosa1, M. García Sotillo26, P. Garnesson31, G. Garric1, I. Golbeck14, J. Gourrion32, M. L. Grégoire22, S. Guinehut2, E. Gutknecht1, C. Harris11, F. Hernandez1, V. Huess6, J.A. Johannessen7, S. Kay11,15, R. Killick11, R. King11, J. de Kloe4, G. Korres25, P. Lagemaa18, R. Lecci8, J.F. Legeais2, J. M. Lellouche1, B. Levier1, P. Lorente26, A. Mangin31, M. Martin11, A. Melet1, J. Murawski6, E. Özsoy23, A. Palazov19, S. Pardo15, L. Parent1, A. Pascual26, J. Paul1, E. Peneva20, C. Perruche1, D. Peterson11, L. Petit de la Villeon5, N. Pinardi9,8, S. Pouliquen5, M. I. Pujol2, R. Rainaud12, P. Rampal7, G. Reffray1, C. Regnier1, A. Reppucci1, A. Ryan11, S. Salon24, A. Samuelsen7, R. Santoleri30, A. Saulter11, J. She6, C. Solidoro24, E. Stanev21, J. Staneva21, A. Stoffelen4, A. Storto8, P. Sykes11, T. Szekely32, G. Taburet2, B. Taylor15, J. Tintore33, C. Toledano28, M. Tonani11, L. Tuomi17, G. Volpe30, H. Wedhe34, T. Williams7, L. Vandendbulcke22, D. van Zanten4, K. von Schuckmann1, J. Xie7, A. Zacharioudaki10, H. Zuo13.The Copernicus Marine Enviromnetal Monitoring Service: Main scientific achievements and future prospects, Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter, 56 Special Issue, 2017.
18. Le Traon, P.Y. G. Dibarboure, G. Jacobs, M. Martin, E. Remy and A. Schiller (2017). Use of satellite altimetry for operational oceanography in Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces, CRC Press, Editors: Stammer and Cazenave.
19. MacKinnon J., M. Alford, J. K. Ansong, B. K. Arbic, A. Barna, B. P. Briegleb, F. O. Bryan, M. C. Buijsman, E. P. Chassignet, G. Danabasoglu, S. Diggs, P. Gent, S. M. Griffies, R. W. Hallberg, S. R. Jayne, M. Jochum, J. M. Klymak, E. Kunze, W. G. Large, S. Legg, B. Mater, A. Melet, L. M. Merchant, R. Musgrave, J. D. Nash, N. J. Norton, A. Pickering, R. Pinkel, K. Polzin, H. L. Simmons, L. C. St. Laurent, O. M. Sun, D. S. Trossman, A. F. Waterhouse, C. B. Whalen, Z. Zhao (2017). « Climate Process Team on Internal-Wave Driven Ocean Mixing ». Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0030.1
20. Meyssignac B., A.B.A. Slangen, A. Melet, J. Church, X. Fettweis, B. Marzeion, C. Agosta, S. Ligtenberg, G. Spada, K. Richter, M. Palmer, C. Roberts, N. Champollion (2017). « 20th century observed sea-level rise compared to climate model simulations. Part 2: Regional sea-level change ». Journal of Climate, vol 30, pp 8565-8593, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0112.1.
21. Nugroho, D. , A., Koch-Larouy, P. Gaspar, F. Lyard et al. 2017, Modelling Explicit tides in the Indonesian seas: an important process for surface sea water properties, Marine Pollution Bulletin, in press
22. Richon, C., Dutay, J.-C., Dulac, F., Wang, R., Balkanski, Y., Nabat, P., Aumont, O., Desboeufs, K., Laurent, B., Guieu, C., Raimbault, P., Beuvier, J. (2017) Modeling atmospheric major nutrients deposition impacts and budgets of the Mediterranean Sea. Progress in Oceanography, accepted.
23. Rubio A., J. Mader, L. Corgnati, C. Mantovani, A. Griffa, A. Novellino, C. Quentin, L. Wyatt, J. Schulz-Stellenfleth, J. Horstmann, P. Lorente, E. Zambianchi, M. Hartnett, C. Santos, V. Zervakis, P. Gorringe, A. Melet, I. Puillat (2017). « HF Radar Activity in European Coastal Seas: Next Steps Towards a Pan-European HF Radar Network ». Frontiers in Marine Science, vol 4, pp 8, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00008.
24. Samson G, Masson S, Durand F, et al (2017) Roles of land surface albedo and horizontal resolution on the Indian summer monsoon biases in a coupled ocean–atmosphere tropical-channel model. Clim Dyn 48:1571–1594. doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3161-0
25. Slangen A.B.A. , B. Meyssignac, C. Agosta, N. Champollion, J. A. Church, X. Fettweis, S.R.M. Ligtenberg, B. Marzeion, A. Melet, M.D. Palmer, K. Richter, C.D. Roberts, G. Spada (2017). « Evaluating model simulations of 20th century sea-level rise. Part 1: Global mean sea-level change ». Journal of Climate, vol 30, pp 8539-8563, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0110.1
26. Terray P, Sooraj KP, Masson S, R.P.M. Krishna; Guillaume Samson; A.G. Prajeesh (2017) Towards a realistic simulation of boreal summer tropical rainfall climatology in state-of-the-art coupled models: role of the background snow-free land albedo. Clim Dyn. doi: 10.1007/s00382-017-3812-9
27. Timko P., B. K. Arbic, J. A. Goff, J. K. Ansong, W. Smith, A. Melet, A. J. Wallcraft (2017). « Impact of synthetic abyssal hill roughness on resolved motions in numerical global ocean tide models ». Ocean Modelling, vol 112, pp 1-16, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.02.005.
28. Karina von Schuckmann, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Enrique Alvarez-Fanjul, Lars Axell, Magdalena Balmaseda, Lars-Anders Breivik, Robert J. W. Brewin, Clement Bricaud, Marie Drevillon, Yann Drillet, Clotilde Dubois, Owen Embury, Hélène Etienne, Marcos García Sotillo, Gilles Garric, Florent Gasparin, Elodie Gutknecht, Stéphanie Guinehut, Fabrice Hernandez, Melanie Juza, Bengt Karlson, Gerasimos Korres, Jean-François Legeais, Bruno Levier, Vidar S. Lien, Rosemary Morrow, Giulio Notarstefano, Laurent Parent, Álvaro Pascual, Begoña Pérez-Gómez, Coralie Perruche, Nadia Pinardi, Andrea Pisano, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Isabelle M. Pujol, Roshin P. Raj, Urmas Raudsepp, Hervé Roquet, Annette Samuelsen, Shubha Sathyendranath, Jun She, Simona Simoncelli, Cosimo Solidoro, Jonathan Tinker, Joaquín Tintoré, Lena Viktorsson, Michael Ablain, Elin Almroth-Rosell, Antonio Bonaduce, Emanuela Clementi, Gianpiero Cossarini, Quentin Dagneaux, Charles Desportes, Stephen Dye, Claudia Fratianni, Simon Good, Eric Greiner, Jerome Gourrion, Mathieu Hamon, Jason Holt, Pat Hyder, John Kennedy, Fernando Manzano-Muñoz, Angélique Melet, Benoit Meyssignac, Sandrine Mulet, Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli, Enda O’Dea, Einar Olason, Aurélien Paulmier, Irene Pérez-González, Rebecca Reid, Marie-Fanny Racault, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Antonio Ramos, Peter Sykes, Tanguy Szekely & Nathalie Verbrugge (2017), The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report, Volume 9, p. s235-s320, doi: 10.1080/1755876X.2016.1273446
29. Verrier S., Le Traon P.Y., Remy E. (2017). Assessing the impact of multiple altimeter missions and Argo in a global eddy-permitting data assimilation system . Ocean Science , 13(6), 1077-1092 . Publisher’s official version : http://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-1077-2017 , Open Access version : http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00416/52780/
30. Waldman, R., Herrmann, M., Somot, S., Arsouze, T., Benshila, R., Bosse, A., Chanut, J., Testor, P. (2017). Impact of the mesoscale dynamics on ocean deep convection: The 2012–2013 case study in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012587

Mercator Ocean Co-Authors

1. Abessolo G., R.  Almar, E. Kestenare, A. Bahini, G.-H. Houngue, J. Jouanno, Y. Du Penhoat, B. Castelle, A. Melet, B. Messignac, E. Anthony, R. Laibi, G. Alory, R. Ranasinghe, 2016. « Potential of video cameras in assessing event and seasonal coastline behaviour: a case study at Grand Popo, Benin (Gulf of Guinea) ». Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 75, pp. 442-446, doi: 10.2112/SI75-089.
2. D. Auroux, J. Blum, and G. Ruggiero. Data assimilation for geophysical fluids: the Diffusive Back and Forth Nudging, pp. 36 p., INdAM Series 15, Springer, 2016.
3. Ayache, M., Dutay, J.-C., Arsouze, T., Révillon, S., Beuvier, J., Jeandel, C. (2016) High resolution neodymium characterization along the Mediterranean margins and modeling of Nd distribution in the Mediterranean basins. Biogeosciences, 13, 5259-5276, doi: 10.5194/bg-13-5259-2016.
4. R. Aznar, M.G. Sotillo, S. Cailleau, P. Lorente, B. Levier, A. Amo-Baladrón, G. Reffray, E. Álvarez-Fanjul, Strengths and weaknesses of the CMEMS forecasted and reanalyzed solutions for the Iberia–Biscay–Ireland (IBI) waters, Journal of Marine Systems, Volume 159, July 2016, Pages 1-14, ISSN 0924-7963, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.02.007. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924796316000439)
5. Beuvier, J., Hamon, M., Greiner, E., Drévillon, M., Lellouche, J.-M. (2016) “New version of MEDRYS, a Mediterranean Sea reanalysis during 1992-2013”. Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer Medit. Vol.41 p.123, Proceedings of the 41th CIESM Congress, Kiel, Germany, september 2016.
6. Charria, G., Lamouroux, J. and P. De Mey. Optimizing observational networks combining gliders, moored buoys and FerryBox in the Bay of Biscay and English Channel. Journal of Marine Systems, 2016. DOI:doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.04.003
7. Chevallier, M., G.C. Smith, F. Dupont, J.-F. Lemieux, G. Forget, Y. Fujii, F. Hernandez, R. Msadek, K.A. Peterson, A. Storto, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso, G. Vernieres, H. Zuo, M. Balmaseda, Y.-S. Chang, N. Ferry, G. Garric, K. Haines, S. Keeley, R.M. Kovach, T. Kuragano, S. Masina, Y. Tang, H. Tsujino, and X. Wang, Intercomparison of the Arctic sea ice cover in global ocean–sea ice reanalyses from the ORA-IP project, Climate Dynamics, 1-30, 10.1007/s00382-016-2985-y, 2016.
8. Crétat, J., Masson, S., Berthet, S., Samson, G., Terray, P., Dudhia, J., … Hourdin, C. (2016). Control of shortwave radiation parameterization on tropical climate SST-forced simulation. Climate Dynamics, 47(5–6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2934-1
9. Dufau C., M. Orsztynowicz, G. Dibarboure, R. Morrow and P.Y. Le Traon, 2016. Mesoscale resolution capability of altimetry: Present and future. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 06/2016;  DOI:10.1002/2015JC010904.
10. Escudier, R., Renault, L., Pascual, A., Brasseur, P., Chelton, D., Beuvier, J. (2016) Eddy properties in the Western Mediterranean Sean from stallite altimetry and a numerical simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121 (6), 3990-4006, doi:10.1002/2015JC011371.
11. Estournel, C., Testor, P., Taupier-Letage, I., Bouin, M.-N., Coppola, L., Durand, P., Conan, P., Bosse, A., Brilouet, P.-E., Beguery, L., Belamari, S., Béranger, K., Beuvier, J., Bourras, D., Canut, G., Doerenbecher, A., Durrieu de Madron, X., D’Ortenzio, F., Drobinski, P., Ducrocq, V., Fourrié, N., Giordani, H., Houpert, L., Labatut, L., Lebeaupin Brossier, C., Nuret, M., Prieur, L., Roussot, O., Seyfried, L., Somot, S. (2016) HyMeX-SOP2: The field campaign dedicated to dense water formation in the north-western Mediterranean. Oceanography, 29(4), 196-206, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.94
12. Gutknecht, E., G. Reffray, M. Gehlen, I. Triyulianti, D. Berlianty, and P. Gaspar (2016), Evaluation of an operational ocean model configuration at 1/12° spatial resolution for the Indonesian seas (NEMO2.3/INDO12) – Part 2: Biogeochemistry, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 1523-1543, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-1523-2016.
13. Hamon, M., Beuvier, J., Somot, S., Lellouche, J.-M., Greiner, E., Jordà, G., Bouin, M.-N., Arsouze, T., Béranger, K., Sevault, F., Dubois, C., Drevillon, M., Drillet, Y. (2016) Design and validation of MEDRYS, a Mediterranean Sea reanalysis over the period 1992-2013. Ocean Science, 12, 577-599, doi:10.5194/os-12-577-2016.
14. Hansen, J., M. Sato, P. Kharecha, K. von Schuckmann, D.J. Beerling, J. Cao, S. Marcott, V. Masson-Delmotte, M.J. Prather, E.J. Rohling, J. Shakun, P. Smith, 2016: Young People’s Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions, Earth System Dynamcis Discussions, doi:10.5194/esd-2016-42.
15. Hansen, J., M. Sato, P. Hearty, R. Ruedy, M. Kelley, V. Masson-Delmotte, G. Russell, G. Tselioudis, J. Cao, E. Rignot, I. Velicogna, B. Tormey, B. Donovan, E. Kandiano, K. von Schuckmann, P. Kharecha, A.N. Legrande, M. Bauer, and K-W. Lo, 2016: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2°C global warming could be dangerous, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3761–3812, www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3761-2016
16. Harzallah, A., Jordà, G., Dubois, C., Sannino, G., Carillo, A., Li, L., Arsouze, T., Cavicchia, L., Beuvier, J., Akthar, N. (2016) Long term evolution of heat budget in the Mediterranean Sea from Med-CORDEX forced and coupled simulations. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3363-5.
17. Jouini, M., Béranger, K., Arsouze, T., Beuvier, J., Thiria, S., Crépon, M., Taupier-Letage, I. (2016) The Sicily Channel surface circulation revisited using a neuronal clustering analysis of a high-resolution simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121 (7), 4545-4567, doi:10.1002/2015JC011472.
18. Helene T. Hewitt, Malcolm J. Roberts, Pat Hyder, Tim Graham, Jamie Rae, Stephen E. Belcher, Romain Bourdallé-Badie, Dan Copsey, Andrew Coward, Catherine Guiavarch, Chris Harris, Richard Hill, Joël J.-M. Hirschi, Gurvan Madec, Matthew S. Mizielinski, Erica Neininger, Adrian L. New, Jean-Christophe Rioual, Bablu Sinha, David Storkey, Ann Shelly, Livia Thorpe, and Richard A. Wood. The impact of resolving the Rossby radius at mid-latitudes in the ocean: results from a high-resolution version of the Met Office GC2 coupled model, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3655-3670, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3655-2016, 2016
19. Lamouroux, J.,  G. Charria, P. De Mey, S. Raynaud, C. Heyraud, P. Craneguy, F. Dumas and M. Le Hénaff, 2016:  Objective assessment of the contribution of the RECOPESCA network to the monitoring of 3D coastal ocean variables in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel. Ocean Dynam.,66(4):567-588, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-016-0938-y
20. Léger, F., Lebeaupin Brossier, C., Giordani, H., Arsouze, T., Beuvier, J., Bouin, M.-N., Bresson, E., Ducrocq, V., Fourrié, N., Nuret, M. (2016) Dense Water Formation in the North-Western Mediterranean area during HyMeX-SOP2 in 1/36° ocean simulations : Sensitivity to initial conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 5549-5569, doi : 10.1002/2015JC011542
21. Lee, Y. J., Matrai, P. A., Friedrichs, M. A., Saba, V. S., Aumont, O., Babin, M., … & Dunne, J. P. (2016). Net primary productivity estimates and environmental variables in the Arctic Ocean: An assessment of coupled physical‐biogeochemical models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(12), 8635-8669.
22. Le Reste S., V. Dutreuil, X. André, V. Thierry, C. Renaut, P.Y. Le Traon, and G. Maze, 2016.  “Deep-Arvor”: A new profiling float to extend the Argo observations down to 4000m depth. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0214.1
23. Macintosh, C. R., C. J. Merchant and K. von Schuckmann, 2016: Uncertainties in steric sea level change estimation during the altimeter era: concepts and practices, Climate Dynamics, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp 59–87, doi:10.1007/s10712-016-9387-x.
24. Melet A., R. Almar, B. Meyssignac. « What dominates sea level at the coast: a case study for the Gulf of Guinea ». Ocean Dynamics, 2016, doi: 10.1007/s10236-016-0942-2
25. Melet A., S. Legg, R. Hallberg, 2016. « Climatic impacts of parameterized local and remote tidal mixing ». Journal of Climate, vol 29 (10), pp. 3473-3500, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0153.1.
26. Ninove, F., Le Traon, P.-Y., Remy, E., and Guinehut, S.: Spatial scales of temperature and salinity variability estimated from Argo observations, Ocean Sci., 12, 1-7, doi:10.5194/os-12-1-2016, 2016.
27. Gyundo Pak, Young-Hyang Park, Frederic Vivier, Romain Bourdalle-Badie, Gilles Garric, and Kyung-Il Chang (2016) Upper-ocean thermal variability controlled by ocean dynamics in the Kuroshio-Oyashio extension region, JGR-Oceans, . DOI: 10.1002/2016JC012076.
28. M-H. Rio, R. Santoleri, R. Bourdalle-Badie, A. Griffa, L. Piterbarg, G. Taburet, IMPROVING THE ALTIMETER DERIVED SURFACE CURRENTS USING HIGH RESOLUTION SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA: A FEASABILITY STUDY BASED ON MODEL OUTPUTS.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0017.1
29. Riser S. C., Freeland H. J., Roemmich D., Wijffels S., Troisi A., Belbeoch M., Gilbert D., Xu J., Pouliquen S., Thresher A., Le Traon P.Y., Maze G., Klein B., Ravichandran M., Grant F., Poulain P.M., Suga T., Byunghwan L., Sterl A., Sutton P. , Mork K.A. , Velez-Belch Pedro J., Ansorge I., King B., Turton J., Baringer M., Jayne S. R. (2016). Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array. Nature Climate Change, 6(2), 145-153. http://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2872
30. Ruggiero, G. A., Cosme, E., Brankart, J. M., Le Sommer, J., & Ubelmann, C. (2016). An efficient way to account for observation error correlations in the assimilation of data from the future swot high-resolution altimeter mission. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(12), 2755-2768.
31. Ruti, P., Somot, S., Giorgi, F., Dubois, C., Flaounas, E., Obermann, A., Dell’Aquila, A., Pisacane, G., Harzallah, A., Lombardi, E., Ahrens, B., Akhtar, N., Alias, A., Arsouze, T., Aznar, R., Bastin, S., Bartholy, J., Béranger, K., Beuvier, J., Bouffies-Cloché, S., Brauch, J., Cabos, W., Calmanti, S., Calvet, J.-C., Carillo, A., Conte, D., Coppola, E., Djurdjevic, V., Drobinski, P., Elizalde, A., Gaertner, M., Galan, P., Gallardo, C., Gualdi, S., Goncalves, M., Jorba, O., Jorda, G., Lheveder, B., Lebeaupin-Brossier, C., Li, L., Liguori, G., Lionello, P., Macias-Moy, D., Nabat, P., Onol, B., Rajkovic, B., Ramage, K., Sevault, F., Sannino, G., Struglia, M. V., Sanna, A., Torma, C., Vervatis, V. (2016) MED-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean Climate studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00176.1.
32. She, J., Allen, I., Buch, E., Crise, A., Johannessen, J. A., Le Traon, P. Y., Lips, U., Nolan, G., Pinardi, N., Reißmann, J. H., Siddorn, J., Stanev, E., and Wehde, H.: Developing European operational oceanography for Blue Growth, climate change adaptation and mitigation and ecosystem-based management, Ocean Sci. , doi:10.5194/os-2015-103, 2016.
33. Tranchant, B., Reffray, G., Greiner, E., Nugroho, D., Koch-Larrouy, A., & Gaspar, P. (2016). Evaluation of an operational ocean model configuration at 1/12° spatial resolution for the Indonesian seas (NEMO2. 3/INDO12)–Part 1: Ocean physics. Geoscientific Model Development, 9(3).
34. Trenberth, K.E., J.T. Fasullo, K. von Schuckmann, L. Cheng, 2016: Insights into Earth’s energy imbalance from multiple sources, Journal of Climate, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0339.1.
35. Turpin, V., Remy, E., and Le Traon, P. Y.: How essential are Argo observations to constrain a global ocean data assimilation system?, Ocean Sci., 12, 257-274, doi:10.5194/os-12-257-2016, 2016.
36. Vidar S. Lien, Solfrid S. Hjøllo, Morten D. Skogen, Einar Svendsen, Henning Wehde, Laurent Bertino, Francois Counillon, Matthieu Chevallier and Gilles Garric (2016), An Assessment of the added value from data assimilation on modelled Nordic Seas hydrography and ocean transports, Ocean Modelling, Ocean Modelling, Vol. 99, p. 43-59.
37. von Schuckmann, K., A. Cazenave, D. Chambers, J. Hansen, S. Josey, Y. Kosaka, N. Loeb, P.-P. Mathieu, B. Meyssignac, M. Palmer, K. Trenberth, M. Wild, 2016: An imperative to monitor Earth’s energy imbalance, Nature Climate Change 6, 138–144, doi:10.1038/nclimate2876

 

Mercator Ocean Journal

Bourdalle-Badie Romain, Pierre-Antoine Bouttier, Clément Bricaud, Diego Bruciaferri, Jérôme Chanut, Stefania Angela Ciliberti, Emanuela Clementi, Andrew Coward, Damiano Delrosso, Christian Ethé, Simona Flavoni, Tim Graham, James Harle, Doroteaciro Iovino, Dan Lea, Claire Lévy, Tomas Lovato, Gurvan Madec, Nicolas Martin, Sébastien Masson, Pierre Mathiot, Silvia Mocavero, George Nurser, Enda O’Dea, Julien Paul, Clément Rousset, Dave Storkey, Andrea Storto, 2016, Main achievements for NEMO evolution during Myocean period, Mercator Ocean Journal #54

Crosnier L., L. Bertino, Y. Drillet, V. Huess, M. Sotillo, M. Tonani, Y. Faugere, R. Santoleri, L.A. Breivik, S. Pouliquen, 2016, Evolution Of The Catalogue Of Products During MyOcean2 And MyOcean Follow-On, Mercator Ocean Journal #54

Delamarche A., C. Giordan, 2016, MyOcean User Service, Mercator Ocean Journal #54

Maksymczuk J., F. Hernandez, A. Sellar, Katrijn Baetens, Marie Drevillon, Ray Mahdon, Bruno Levier, Charly Regnier, Andrew Ryan, 2016, Product Quality Achievements Within MyOcean, Mercator Ocean Journal #54

Simoncelli S., S. Masina, L. Axell, Y. Liu, S. Salon, G. Cossarini, L. Bertino, J. Xie, A. Samuelsen, B. Levier, G. Reffray, E. O’Dea, R. McEwan, R. Barciela, S. Wakelin , T. Kristiansen, M. Skogen, M. Benkiran, M. G. Sottillo, 2016, MyOcean Regional Reanalyses: Overview Of Reanalyses Systems And Main Results, Mercator Ocean Journal #54

Tonani M., E. Alvarez Fanjul, L. Bertino, E. Blockey, Y. Drillet, V. Huess, G. Korotaev, 2016, Main Achievements On MyOcean Global And Regional Prediction Systems, Mercator Ocean Journal #54

Mercator Ocean Co-Authors

Chevallier Clemence, Herbette Steven, Marie Louis, Le Borgne Pierre, Marsouin Anne, Pere Sonia, Levier Bruno, Reason Chris (2014). Observations of the Ushant front displacements with MSG/SEVIRI derived sea surface temperature data. Remote Sensing Of Environment, 146, 3-10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.038

Marina Tonani, Magdalena Balmaseda, Laurent Bertino, Ed Blockley, Gary Brassington, Fraser Davidson, Yann Drillet, Pat Hogan, Tsurane Kurano, Tony Lee, Arichal Mehra, Francis Paranathara, Clemente A. S. Tanajura, Hui Wang, 2014. Status and future of global and regional ocean prediction systems. Submitted to Special Issue in Journal of Oceanography.

GB Brassington, MJ Martin, HL Tolman, S Akella, M Balmeseda, CRS Chambers, JA Cummings, Y Drillet, PAEM Jansen, P Laloyaux, D Lea, A Mehra, I Mirouze, H Ritchie, G Samson, PA Sandery, GC Smith, M. Suarez and R Todling, 2014. Progress and challenges in short- to medium-range coupled prediction. Submitted to Special Issue in Journal of Oceanography.

M. Gehlen, R. Barciela, L. Bertino, P. Brasseur, M. Butenschön, F. Chai, A. Crise, Y. Drillet, D. Ford, D. Lavoie, P. Lehodey, C. Perruche, A.Samuelsen, 2014. Building the capacity for forecasting marine biogeochemistry and ecosystems: recent advances and future developments. Submitted to Special Issue in Journal of Oceanography.

MJ Martin,M Balmaseda, L Bertino, P Brasseur, G Brassington, J Cummings, Y Fujii, DJ Lea, J-M Lellouche, K Mogensen, P Oke, GC Smith, C-E Testut, GA Waagbø, J Waters, AT Weaver, 2014. Status and future of data assimilation in operational oceanography, submitted to this special issue in Journal of Operational Oceanography.

Peter R. Oke, Gilles Larnicol, Yosuke Fujii, Gregory C. Smith, Daniel J. Lea, Stephanie Guinehut, Elisabeth Remy, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Tatiana Rykova, Dorina Surcel-Colan, Matthew J. Martin, Alistair A. Sellar, Sandrine Mulet, Victor Turpin, 2014. Assessing the impact of observations on ocean forecasts and reanalyses: Part 1, Global studies. submitted to this special issue in Journal of Operational Oceanography.

A. G. Ryan, C. Regnier, P. Divakaran, T. Spindler, A. Mehra, F. Hernandez, G. C. Smith, Y. Y. Liu, and F. Davidson. 2014. GODAE OceanView Class 4 forecast verification framework: Global ocean inter-comparison, submitted in Journal of Operational Oceanography

F. Hernandez, E. Blockley, G. Brassington, F. Davidson, P. Divakaran, M. Drévillon, Y. Fujii, M. Garcia-Sotillo, P. J. Hogan, S. Ishizaki, P. Lagemaa, B. Levier, M. Martin, A. Mehra, C. Mooers, N. Ferry, A. Ryan, C. Regnier, A. Sellar, G. C. Smith, S. Sofianos, T. Spindler, G. Volpe, J. Wilkin, E. D. Zaron, A. Zhang, 2014. Performance evaluations, near real-time assessment of operational oceanography forecast products. submitted in Journal of Operational Oceanography

Y. Drillet, J. M. Lellouche, B. Levier, M. Drévillon, O. Le Galloudec, G. Reffray, C. Regnier, E. Greiner, and M. Clavier. Forecasting the mixed layer depth in the north east Atlantic: an ensemble approach, with uncertainties based on data from operational oceanic systems Ocean Sci. Discuss., 11, 1435-1472, 2014. http://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/11/1435/2014/osd-11-1435-2014.html

G Quattrocchi, P De Mey, CE Testut, N Ayoub, G Reffray, J Chanut, Y Drillet, V D Vervatis, 2014. Characterisation of errors of a regional model of the Bay of Biscay in response to wind uncertainties: a first step toward the choice of a data assimilation system for coastal seas. Submitted. Journal Of Operational Oceanography, Vol 7 N°2 pp25-34, Aug 2014.

Jourdain, N. C., Barnier, B., Ferry, N., Vialard, J., Menkès, C. E., Lengaigne, M., & Parent, L. (2014). Tropical cyclones in two atmospheric (re) analyses and their response in two oceanic reanalyses. Ocean Modelling, 73, 108-122.

A. M. Treguier, J. Deshayes, J. Le Sommer, C. Lique, G. Madec, T. Penduff, J.-M. Molines, B. Barnier, R. Bourdalle-Badie, and C. Talandier, 2014. Meridional transport of salt in the global ocean from an eddy-resolving model. Ocean Sci., 10, 243-255, 2014.

Clivar exchanges N°64 (Vol19No1) Feb 2014.Special Issue: Ongoing Efforts on Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison. http://www.clivar.org/sites/default/files/documents/Exchanges64.pdf

M. A. Balmaseda, F. Hernandez, A. Storto, M. Palmer, L. Shi, G. Smith, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso , O. Alves, B. Barnier,T. Boyer, Y. Chang, G. A. Chepurin, N. Ferry, G. Forget, Y. Fujii, S. Good, S. Guinehut, K. Haines, Y. Ishikawa , S. Keeley, A. Köhl, T. Lee, M. Martin, S. Masina, S. Masuda, B. Meyssignac, K. Mogensen, L. Parent, K. A. Peterson, Y. Yin, G. Vernieres, X. Wang, J. Waters, R. Wedd, O. Wang, Y. Xue, M. Chevallier, J-F. Lemieux, F. Dupont, T. Kuragano, M. Kamachi, T. Awaji, K. Wilmer-Becker, F. Gaillard, 2014. The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project(ORA-IP). Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp3-7, feb 2014.

M. Palmer, M. Balmaseda, Y.-S. Chang, G. Chepurin, Y. Fujii, S. Good, S. Guinehut, F. Hernandez, M. Martin, S. Masuda, K.A. Peterson, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso, G. Vernieres, O. Wang and Y. Xue, 2014. CLIVAR-GSOP/GODAE intercomparison of ocean heat content: initial results. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp8-10, feb 2014.

O. Alves, L. Shi, R. Wedd,M. Balmaseda, Y. Chang, G. Chepurin,Y. Fujii, F. Gaillard, S. Good, S. Guinehut,K. Haines, F. Hernandez, T. Lee,M. Palmer, K.A. Peterson, S. Smasuda,A. Storto, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso,G. Vernieres, X. Wang, Y. Yin, 2014. An Assessment of Upper Ocean Salinity Reanalyses from CLIVAR GSOP/GODAE Systems. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp11-14, feb 2014.

A. Storto, S. Masina, M. Balmaseda,S. Guinehut, M. Martin, K.A. Peterson,S. Good, M. Valdivieso, K. Haines,A. Köhl, Y. Yin, L. Shi, G. Smith,Y. -S. Chang, G. Vernieres , X. Wang,O. Wang, T. Lee N. Ferry, Y. Fujii,F. Hernandez, Y. Ishikawa, S. Masuda and the ORA-IP Group, 2014. Comparison of Steric Sea Level from Ocean Reanalyses and Objective Analyses. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp15-17, feb 2014.

F. Hernandez, N. Ferry, M. Balmaseda,Y.-S. Chang, G. Chepurin, Y. Fujii,S. Guinehut, A. Köhl, M. Martin,B. Meyssignac, L. Parent, K.A. Peterson,A. Storto, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso,G. Vernieres, O. Wang, X. Wang, Y. Xue, and Y. Yin, 2014. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp18-21, feb 2014.

T. Toyoda, Y. Fujii, T. Kuragano, M. Kamachi, Y. Ishikawa, S. Masuda,T. Awaji, F. Hernandez, N. Ferry,S. Guinehut, M. Martin, K. A. Peterson,S. Good, M. Valdivieso, K. Haines,A. Storto, A. Köhl, Y. Yin, L. Shi,G. Smith, Y. Chang, G. Vernieres, X. Wang, O. Wang, T. Lee, M. Balmaseda, 2014. Mixed layer depth intercomparison among global ocean syntheses/reanalyses. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp22-24, feb 2014.

F. Hernandez, N. Ferry, M. Balmaseda,Y.-S. Chang, G. Chepurin, Y. Fujii,S. Good, S. Guinehut, A. Köhl,M. Martin, L. Parent, K.A. Peterson,A. Storto, T. Toyoda, M. Valdivieso,G. Vernieres, 2014.ORA-IP Depth of the 20°C isotherm : First results. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp25-27, feb 2014.

Maria Valdivieso, Keith Haines, Magdalena Balmaseda, Bernard Barnier, You-Soon Chang, Nicolas Ferry, Yosuke Fujii, Armin Koehl, Tong Lee, Matt Martin, Andrea Storto, Takahiro Toyoda, Xiaochun Wang, Jennifer Waters, Yan Xue and Yonghong Yin, 2014. Heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses. Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp28-31, feb 2014.

G. Smith, M. Chevallier, J-F. Lemieux,F. Dupont, G. Vernieres, A. Storto,T. Toyoda, Y. Fujii, Y. Chang,M. Valdivieso , K. A. Peterson, N. Ferry,F. Hernandez, M. A. Balmaseda,S. Keeley, X. Wang, 2014. Preliminary Evaluation of Sea Ice Fields from the Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project.Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp32-34, feb 2014.

M. A. Balmaseda, F. Hernandez,T. Lee, A. Storto, M. Valdivieso,K. Wilmer-Becker, 2014. Workshop Report on the Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project(ORA-IP). Clivar exchanges N°64, Vol19 No1 pp35-35, feb 2014.

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X Morel, MA Lucas and F Dos Santos, A Lagrangian study of the Brazil-Malvinas confluence: Lagrangian coherent structures and several lyapunov exponents. Journal of Operational Oceanography, Volume 7 No 2 August 2014, pp13-23, 2014.

Mercator Ocean Newsletters

V. Turpin, E. Remy, P-Y Le Traon, 2014, Observing system experiment: a simple tool to assess the multiple roles played by argo observations on the operational forecasting system of Mercator océan, Mercator Ocean Newsletter #50

G. Herbert, Garreau, P., Garnier V., Dumas F., Cailleau S., Chanut J., Levier B., Aznar R., 2014, Downscaling From Oceanic Global Circulation Model Towards Regional And Coastal Model Using Spectral Nudging Techniques, Mercator Ocean Newsletter #49

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Le Traon P.Y., 2013. From satellite altimetry to Argo and operational oceanography: three revolutions in oceanography. Ocean Science, 9(5), 901-915. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-9-901-2013.

Deshayes J. , A.-M. Tréguier, B. Barnier, A. Lecointre, J. Le Sommer, J.-M. Molines, T. Penduff, R. Bourdallé−Badie, Y. Drillet, G. Garric, R. Benshila, G. Madec, A. Biastoch, C. Böning, M. Scheinert, A. C. Coward, J. J.-M. Hirschi (2013). Oceanic hindcast simulations at high resolution suggest that the Atlantic MOC is bistable. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 3069-3073 doi:10.1002/grl.50534. Andrello M., Mouillot D., Beuvier J., Albouy C., Thuiller W., Manel S. Low connectivity between Mediterranean marine protected areas : a biophysical modeling approach for the dusty grouper Epinephelus marginatus. Plos One, 2013 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068564 Lellouche, J.-M., Le Galloudec, O., Drévillon, M., Régnier, C., Greiner, E., Garric, G., Ferry, N., Desportes, C., Testut, C.-E., Bricaud, C., Bourdallé-Badie, R., Tranchant, B., Benkiran, M., Drillet, Y., Daudin, A., and De Nicola, C.: Evaluation of global monitoring and forecasting systems at Mercator Océan, Ocean Sci., 9, 57-81, doi:10.5194/os-9-57-2013, 2013. Mosquera-Vasquez K., Dewitte B., Illig S., Takahashi K. and G. Garric, The 2002-2003 El Nino: Equatorial waves sequence and their impact on sea surface temperature,. J. Geophys. Res., 2013 DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008551 Cabanes, C., Grouazel, A., von Schuckmann, K., Hamon, M., Turpin, V., Coatanoan, C., Paris, F., Guinehut, S., Boone, C., Ferry, N., de Boyer Montégut, C., Carval, T., Reverdin, G., Pouliquen, S., and Le Traon, P.-Y.: The CORA dataset: validation and diagnostics of in-situ ocean temperature and salinity measurements, Ocean Sci., 9, 1-18, doi:10.5194/os-9-1-2013, 2013. Marie Drévillon, Eric Greiner, Denis Paradis , Christophe Payan, Jean-Michel Lellouche, Guillaume Reffray , Edmée Durand, Stéphane Law-Chune, Sylvain Cailleau, 2013, A strategy for producing refined currents in the Equatorial Atlantic in the context of the search of the AF447 wreckage. Ocean Dynamics (2013) 63:63-82 DOI 10.1007/s10236-012-0580-2 Maraldi, C., Chanut, J., Levier, B., Ayoub, N., De Mey, P., Reffray, G., Lyard, F., Cailleau, C., Drévillon, M., Fanjul, E., Sotillo, M., Marsaleix, P., and the Mercator R&D Team (2013). Nemo on the shelf : assessment of the iberia–biscay–ireland configuration. Ocean Sci., 9 :745–771. Benshila, R., Durand, F., Masson, S., Bourdallé-Badie, R., de Boyer Montégut, C., Papa, F., & Madec, G. (2014). The upper Bay of Bengal salinity structure in a high-resolution model. Ocean Modelling, 74, 36-52. Matthieu Chevallier, David Salas y Mélia, Aurore Voldoire, Michel Déqué and Gilles Garric. Seasonal Forecasts of the Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Extent Using a GCM-Based Seasonal Prediction System, Journal of Climate, Volume 26, Issue 16 (August 2013) pp. 6092-6104, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00612.1

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Chevallier Clemence, Herbette Steven, Marie Louis, Le Borgne Pierre, Marsouin Anne, Pere Sonia, Levier Bruno, Reason Chris Observations of the Ushant front displacements with MSG/SEVIRI derived sea surface temperature data. Remote Sensing of Environment IN PRESS. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.038 A. M. Treguier, J. Deshayes, J. Le Sommer, C. Lique, G. Madec, T. Penduff, J.-M. Molines, B. Barnier, R. Bourdalle-Badie, and C. Talandier. Meridional transport of salt in the global ocean from an eddy-resolving model Ocean Sci. Discuss., 10, 2293-2326, 2013 Nicolas C. Jourdain,, Bernard Barnier, Jerome Vialard, Nicolas Ferry, Christophe E. Menkes, Matthieu Lengaigne, Laurent Parent, Tropical cyclones in two atmospheric (re)analyses and their response in two oceanic reanalyses. Submitted to Ocean Modelling, 2013 Youyu Lu, Simon Higginson, Shannon Nudds and Simon Prinsenberg and Gilles Garric. Model simulated volume fluxes through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Davis Strait: Linking monthly variations to forcing in different seasons, 2013, , Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans. Soto-Navarro, J., Sevault, F., Somot, S., Beuvier, J., Criado-Aldeanueva, F., García-Lafuente, J., Béranger, K. (2013) Evaluation of regional circulation models for the Mediterranean Sea at the Strait of Gibraltar: volume transport and thermohaline properties of the outflow. Submitted to Climate Dynamics.

Mercator Ocean Newsletters

E. Rémy, M. Drévillon, C. Desportes, 2013, Impact of the loss/addition of satellite altimetry on Mercator Ocean operational products. Mercator Ocean Quarterly newsletter #47, pp20-23, 2013. Victor Turpin, Patrick Raimbault, Loïc Petit de la Villéon, Magali Krieger and Armel Bonnat, 2013, MOOSE: Mediterranean data management link with Coriolis. Mercator Ocean Quarterly newsletter #48, pp15-19, 2013.

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Manel Jouini, Marina Lévy, Michel Crépon, Sylvie Thiria, 2013. Reconstruction of satellite chlorophyll images under heavy cloud coverage using a neural classification method. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 131, 15 April 2013, Pages 232–246.

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Bruno Blanke, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Nicolas Grima, Yann Drillet, 2012 : Sensitivity of advective transfer times across the North Atlantic Ocean to the temporal and spatial resolution of model velocity data: Implication for European eel larval transport.Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 55– 56 (2012) 22– 44. Beuvier, J., K. Béranger, C. Lebeaupin Brossier, S. Somot, F. Sevault, Y. Drillet, R. Bourdallé-Badie, N. Ferry, and F. Lyard (2012), Spreading of the Western Mediterranean Deep Water after winter 2005: time-scales and deep cyclone transport., J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JC007679, in press. M. Chevallier, D. Salas Y Melia, A. Voldoire, M. Deque and G. Garric, Seasonal forecast of the pan-Arctic sea ice area using a GCM-based seasonal prediction system, J. of Clim. Under revision, 2012. Drobinski P., Anav A., Lebeaupin Brossier C., Samson G., Stéfanon M., Bastin S., Baklouti M., Béranger K., Beuvier J., Bourdallé-Badie R., Coquart L., D’Andrea F., De Noblet-Ducoudré N., Diaz F., Dutay J.C., Ethe C., Foujols A.M., Khvorostiyanov D., Madec G., Mancip M., Masson S., Menut L., Palmieri J., Polcher J., Turquety S., Valcke S., Viovy N.: Modelling the Regional Coupled Earth system (MORCE): application to process and climate studies in vulnerable regions. Env. Modelling and Software, 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.01.017 J.-M. Brankart, C.-E. Testut, D. Béal, M. Doron, C. Fontana, M. Meinvielle, P. Brasseur,and J. Verron Towards an improved description of ocean uncertainties: effect of local anamorphic transformations on spatial correlations, Ocean Sci. Discuss., 8, 2147-2195, 2011 http://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/8/2147/2011/osd-8-2147-2011-discussion.html S. Cailleau, J. Chanut, J.-M. Lellouche, B. Levier, C. Maraldi, G. Reffray, and M. G. Sotillo, 2012, Towards a regional ocean forecasting system for the IBI (Iberia-Biscay-Ireland area): developments and improvements within the ECOOP project framework. Ocean Sci., 8, 143-159, 2012. C. Maraldi, J. Chanut, B. Levier, G. Reffray, N. Ayoub, P. De Mey, F. Lyard, S. Cailleau, M. Drévillon, E. A. Fanjul, M. G. Sotillo, P. Marsaleix, and the Mercator Team, 2012, NEMO on the shelf: assessment of the Iberia–Biscay–Ireland configuration. Ocean Sci. Discuss., 9, 499-583, 2012. Manuscript under review for OS http://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/special_issue48.html Buongiorno Nardelli, B., Guinehut, S., Pascual, A., Drillet, Y., Ruiz, S., and Mulet, S.: Towards high resolution mapping of 3-D mesoscale dynamics from observations, Ocean Sci., 8, 885-901, doi:10.5194/os-8-885-2012, 2012. http://www.ocean-sci.net/8/885/2012/ Vidal-Vijande E. , A. Pascual , B. Barnier, J-M Molines, N. Ferry and J. Tintore, 2012: Multiparametric analysis and validation in the western Mediterranean of three global OGCM hindcasts. Scientia Marina, 76S1, 147-164. Scott R., N. Ferry, M. Drevillon, C. N. Barron, N. C. Jourdain, J-M Lellouche, E. J. Metzger, M-H Rio, O. M. Smedstad, 2012: Estimates of surface drifter trajectories in the Equatorial Atlantic: a multi-model ensemble approach. Ocean Dynamics, 62, 1091-1109. doi 10.1007/s10236-012-0548-2 Xue Y., M. Balmaseda, T. Boyer, N. Ferry, S. Good, I. Ishikawa, A. Kumar, M. Rienecker, T. Rosati, Y. Yin, 2012: A Comparative Analysis of Upper Ocean Heat Content Variability from an Ensemble of Operational Ocean Reanalyses A Comparative Analysis of Upper-Ocean Heat Content Variability from an Ensemble of Operational Ocean Reanalyses. J. Climate, 25, 6905–6929. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00542.1

Proceedings 20 years of progress in Radar Altimetry

M. Benkiran, N. Ferry, E. Greiner, 2012. IMPACT OF ARGO DATA AND QUALITY CONTROL IN MERCATOR OCEAN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL REANALYSIS SYSTEMS Charles Desportes, Marie Drévillon, Charly Régnier, Bruno Levier, 2012.QUO VA DIS? THE MERCATOR OCEAN QUARTERLY VALIDATION BULLETIN. Eric Dombrowsky, Andreas Schiller, Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, 2012.GODAE OCEANVIEW : TOWARDS A LONG-TERM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM FOR OCEAN ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING. N. Ferry, L. Parent, G. Garric, B. Barnier, J-M Molines, S. Guinehut, S. Mulet, K. Haines, M. Valdivieso, S. Masina and A. Storto, 2012. MYOCEAN EDDY-PERMITTING GLOBAL OCEAN REANALYSIS PRODUCTS:DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS Eric Greiner, J.-M. Lellouche, O. Le Galloudec, M. Drévillon, C. Regnier, G. Garric, B. Tranchant, R. Boudallé-Badie, C. Bricaud, M. Benkiran, G. Reffray, B. Levier, J. Chanut, Y. Drillet, 2012. EVALUATION OF REAL TIME AND FUTURE FORECASTING SYSTEMS AT MERCATOR OCÉAN: OVERVIEW AND RECENT IMPROVEMENTS AT THE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL SCALES Fabrice Hernandez, Edmée Durand, Nicolas Ferry, and Aude Chayriguet, 2012. OVERVIEW OF OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSATION CAPABILITIES, USING MERCATOR GLORYS2V1 REANALYSIS P.Y. Le Traon, 2012. FROM SATELLITE ALTIMETRY TO OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE L. Parent, N. Ferry, B. Barnier, G. Garric, C. Bricaud, C-E Testut, O. Le Galloudec, J-M Lellouche, E. Greiner, M. Drevillon, E. Rémy, J-M Molines, S. Guinehut, C. Cabanes, 2012.GLOBAL Eddy-Permitting Ocean Reanalyses and Simulations of the period 1992 to Present R. Bourdallé-Badie, C. Bricaud, Y. Drillet, G. Garric, O. Le Galloudec, 2012. Evaluation of the meso scale activity in the Mercator Océan global eddy-resolving model (1/12°)

Mercator Ocean’s Newsletters

M. Drévillon, E. Greiner, D. Paradis, C. Payan, J-M. Lellouche, G. Reffray, E. Durand, S. Law-Chune, S. Cailleau, 2012, Meteo-France and Mercator Ocean contribution to the search of the AF447 wreckage. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#44, jan 2012, pp3-10. C. Derval, C. Desportes, M. Drévillon, C. Estournel, C. Régnier, S. Law Chune, 2012, Mercator Ocean operational global ocean system 1/12° PSY4V1: performances and applica-tions in the context of the nuclear disaster of Fukushima. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#44, jan 2012, pp11-21. S. Law Chune , Y. Drillet, P. De Mey and P. Daniel, 2012, Drift forecast with Mercator Ocean velocity fields and addition of external wind/wave contri-bution. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#44, jan 2012, pp22-27. N. Ferry, L. Parent, G. Garric, C. Bricaud, C-E. Testut, O. Le Galloudec, J-M. Lellouche, M. Drévillon, E. Greiner, B. Barnier, J-M. Molines, N. Jourdain, S. Guinehut, C. Cabanes, L. Zawadzki., 2012, GLORYS2V1 global ocean reanalysis of the altimetric era (1993-2009) at meso scale. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#44, jan 2012, pp28-39. M. Gehlen, A. Yool, M. Vichi, R. Barciela, C. Perruche, A. El Moussaoui and C. Ethé, 2012, Coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean modeling using NEMO components. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#46, Oct 2012, pp 10-23 E. Dombrowsky, L. Bertino, J. Chanut, Y. Drillet, V. Huess, A. Misyuk, J. Siddorn and M. Tonani, 2012, NEMO in MyOcean Monitoring and Forecasting Centers (MFCs). Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#46, Oct 2012, pp 31-45 N. Ferry, B. Barnier, G. Garric, K. Haines , S. Masina , L. Parent, A. Storto , M. Valdivieso, S. Guinehut and S. Mulet, 2012, NEMO: the modeling engine of global ocean reanalyses. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#46, Oct 2012, pp 46-59 J. Beuvier, C. Lebeaupin Brossier, K. Béranger, T. Arsouze, R. Bourdallé-Badie, C. Deltel, Y. Drillet, P. Drobinski, N. Ferry, F. Lyard, F. Sevault and S. Somot, 2012, MED12, oceanic component for the modeling of the regional Mediterranean earth system. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#46, Oct 2012, pp 60-66

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Gimbert, F., N. Jourdain, D. Marsan, J. Weiss, and B. Barnier (2012), Recent mechanical weakening of the Arctic sea ice cover as revealed from larger inertial oscillations. 2 – Ocean / sea ice coupled dynamical modelling,J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JC007633, in press. Philippe Gaspar, Scott R. Benson, Peter H. Dutton, Adrien Réveillère, Guillaume Jacob, Cherina Meetoo, Amaury Dehecq and Sabrina Fossette, 2012. OCEANIC DISPERSAL OF JUVENILE LEATHERBACK TURTLES: GOING BEYOND PASSIVE DRIFT MODELING. ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION IN MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES. Jourdain NC, Lengaigne M, Vialard J, Madec G, Menkes CE, Vincent EM et al. (2012) Observation based estimates of surface cooling inhibition by heavy rainfall under tropical cyclones, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43, 205-221, DOI 10.1175/JPO-D-12-085.1.

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Brankart J.-M., Cosme E., Testut C.-E., Brasseur P. and Verron J. Efficient local error parameterizations for square root or ensemble Kalman filters: application to a basin-scale ocean turbulent flow.[doi] Monthly Weather Review, 139(2), 474-493, 2011. Barbara Berx , Mark Dickey-Collas , Morten D . Skogen, Yann -Hervé De Roeck ,Holger Klein , Rosa Barciela, Rodney M . Forster , Eric Dombrowsky, Martin Huret, Mark Payne , Yoland a Sagarminaga, and Corinna Schrum, 2011: Does Operational Oceanography Address the Needs of Fisheries and Applied Environmental Scientists? Oceanography, Vol24, No1 http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/24-1_berx.html R. B. Scott, C. N. Barron; M. Drevillon; N. Ferry; N. Jourdain; J-M. Lellouche; E. J. Metzger, M-H. Rio; O. M. Smedstad, 2011: Prediction of surface drifter trajectories in the Equatorial Atlantic: a multi-model ensemble approach, Ocean modelling, in revision Camille Lique, Gilles Garric, Anne-Marie Treguier, Bernard Barnier, Nicolas Ferry, Charles-Emmanuel Testut, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin, 2011: Evolution of the Arctic Ocean Salinity, 2007–08: Contrast between the Canadian and the Eurasian Basins, Journal of Climate, Volume 24, Issue 6 (March 2011) pp. 1705-1717 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3762.1 Haines, K., J. A. Johannessen, P. Knudsen, D. Lea, M. H. Rio, L. Bertino, F. Davidson, and F. Hernandez, 2011: An ocean modelling and assimilation guide to using GOCE geoid products. Ocean Sci., 7, 151-164. Hernandez, F., 2011: Performance of Ocean Forecasting Systems—Intercomparison Projects. Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century, Springer Science. Harley E. Hurlburt, E. Joseph Metzger, James G. Richman, Eric P. Chassignet, Yann Drillet,Matthew W. Hecht, Olivier Le Galloudec, Jay F. Shriver, Xiaobiao Xu, and Luis Zamudio, 2011,Dynamical evaluation of ocean models using the gulf stream as an example, Book chapter 21 for Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century based on the International GODAE Summer School 11-22 January 2010 University of Western Australia Perth. Eric Dombrowsky, 2011, Overview global operational oceanography systems, Book chapter 16 for Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century based on the International GODAE Summer School 11-22 January 2010 University of Western Australia Perth. Fabrice Hernandez, 2011, Performance of Ocean forecasting systems – intercomparison project. Book chapter 23 for Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century based on the International GODAE Summer School 11-22 January 2010 University of Western Australia Perth.

Mercator Ocean’s Newsletters

Abdelali Elmoussaoui, Coralie Perruche, Eric Greiner, Christian Ethé, Marion Gehlen, 2011:Integration of biogeochemistry into Mercator Ocean systems. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter, #40 – January 2011, 3-14. Marie Drévillon, Charly Régnier, Charles Desportes, Eric Greiner, Stéphanie Guinehut, 2011 : QuO Va Dis? The Mercator Ocean quarterly validation bulletin: recent developments and prospect. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter, #41 – April 2011 – 49-52.

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Harley E. Hurlburt, E. Joseph Metzger, James G. Richman, Eric P. Chassignet, Yann Drillet,Matthew W. Hecht, Olivier Le Galloudec, Jay F. Shriver, Xiaobiao Xu, and Luis Zamudio, 2010,Dynamical evaluation of ocean models using the gulf stream as an example, Book chapter for Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century based on the International GODAE Summer School 11-22 January 2010 University of Western Australia Perth, Australia 28 May 2010 Eric Dombrowsky, 2010, Overview global operational oceanography systems, to appear as chapter 16 of the book “Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century”, based on the International GODAE OceanView Summer School, 11-22 January 2010, University of Western Australia, Perth. Brankart J.-M., Cosme E., Testut C.-E., Brasseur P. and Verron J., 2010 : Efficient adaptive error parameterizations for square root or ensemble Kalman filters : application to the control of ocean mesoscale signals, Mon. Weather Rev., 139(2), 474-493, 2011. Brankart J.-M., Cosme E., Testut C.-E., Brasseur P. and Verron J., 2010 : Efficient local error parameterizations for square root or ensemble Kalman filters : application to a basin scale ocean turbulent flow, submitted to Mon. Weather Rev. Frédéric Marin, Elodie Kestenare, Thierry Delcroix, Fabien Durand, Sophie Cravatte, Gérard Eldin, Romain Bourdallé-Badie, 2010 : “Annual Reversal of the Equatorial Intermediate Current in the Pacific: Observations and Model Diagnostics” Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 40, Issue 5 (May 2010) pp. 915-933 doi: 10.1175/2009JPO4318.1 K. Béranger, Y. Drillet, M. N. Houssais, P. Testor, R. Bourdalle-Badie, B. Alhammoud, A. Bozec, L. Mortier, P. Bouruet-Aubertot and M. Crepon, 2010 : “Impact of the spatial distribution of the atmospheric forcing on water mass formation in the Mediterranean Sea” J. Geophys. Res., 115, C12041, doi:10.1029/2009JC005648. Herrmann, M., F. Sevault, J. Beuvier, and S. Somot (2010), What induced the exceptional 2005 convection event in the northwestern Mediterranean basin? Answers from a modeling study, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C12051, doi:10.1029/2010JC006162. Beuvier J., F. Sevault, M. Herrmann, H. Kontoyiannis, W. Ludwig, M. Rixen, E. Stanev, K. Béranger, S. Somot (2010) Modelling the Mediterranean Sea interannual variability over the last 40 years: focus on the eastern Mediterranean Transient (EMT), J. Geophys. Res., 115, C08017, doi:10.1029/2009JC005950. Minvielle, M., Cassou C., Bourdalle-Badie, R., Terray L., Najac, J., 2010: A statistical-dynamical scheme for reconstructing ocean forcing in the Atlantic. Part II: methodology, validation and application to high-resolution ocean models. Climate Dynamics, doi.1007/s00382-010-0761-y

Mercator Ocean’s Newsletters

Nicolas Ferry, Laurent Parent, Gilles Garric, Bernard Barnier, Nicolas C. Jourdain and the Mercator Ocean team, Mercator Global Eddy Permitting Ocean Reanalysis GLORYS1V1: Description and Results, 2010, Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#36 – January 2010, pp 15-27 Elisabeth Remy, Large scale ocean variability estimated from a 3D-Var Reanalysis: sensitivity experiments, Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#36 – January 2010, pp 8-14 Cécile Cabanes, Clément de Boyer Montégut, Christine Coatanoan, Nicolas Ferry, Cécile Pertuisot, Karina Von Schuckmann, Loic Petit de la Villeon, Thierry Carval, Sylvie Pouliquen and Pierre-Yves Le Traon, CORA (CORIOLIS Ocean Database for re-Analyses), a new comprehensive and qualified ocean in-situ dataset from 1900 to 2008 and its use in GLORYS, 2010, Mercator Ocean – CORIOLIS Quarterly Newsletter – Special Issue#37 – April 2010, pp15-19 Karina von Schuckmann, Marie Drévillon, Nicolas Ferry, Sandrine Mulet and Marie Hélène Rio, Global Ocean indicators, Mercator Ocean – CORIOLIS Quarterly Newsletter – Special Issue#37 – April 2010, pp20-28 Sylvain Cailleau, Jérôme Chanut, Bruno Levier, Claire Maraldi, Guillaume Reffray, 2010, The new regional generation of Mercator Ocean system in the Iberian Biscay Irish (IBI) area, Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter#39 – Octobre 2010, pp 5-15

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García‐García, D., B. F. Chao, and J.‐P. Boy (2010), Steric and mass‐induced sea level variations in the Mediterranean Sea revisited, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C12016, doi:10.1029/2009JC005928.

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E. Dombrowsky, L. Bertino, G.B. Brassington, E.P. Chassignet, F. Davidson, H.E. Hurlburt, M. Kamachi, T. Lee, M.J. Martin, S. Mei, and M. Tonani, 2009, “GODAE Systems in Operation” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 J. Cummings, L. Bertino, P. Brasseur, I. Fukumori, M. Kamachi, M.J. Martin, K. Mogensen, P. Oke, C.E. Testut, J. Verron, and A. Weaver, 2009, “Ocean Data Assimilation Systems for GODAE” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 H.E. Hurlburt, G.B. Brassington, Y. Drillet, M. Kamachi, M. Benkiran, R. Bourdallé- Badie, E.P. Chassignet, G.A. Jacobs, O. Le Galloudec, J.-M. Lellouche, E.J. Metzger, P.R. Oke, T.F. Pugh, A. Schiller, O.M. Smedstad, B. Tranchant, H. Tsujino, N. Usui, and A.J. Wallcraft , 2009 : “High-Resolution Global and Basin-Scale Ocean Analyses and Forecasts” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 F. Hernandez, L. Bertino, G. Brassington, E. Chassignet, J. Cummings, F. Davidson, M. Drévillon, G. Garric, M. Kamachi, J.-M. Lellouche, R. Mahdon, M.J. Martin, A. Ratsimandresy, and C. Regnier, 2009 : “Intercomparison Studies Within GODAE” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 P.R. Oke, M.A. Balmaseda, M. Benkiran, J.A. Cummings, E. Dombrowsky, Y. Fujii, S. Guinehut, G. Larnicol, P.-Y. Le Traon, and M.J. Martin, 2009 : “Observing System Evaluations Using GODAE Systems” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 Balmaseda, O.J. Alves, A. Arribas, T. Awaji, D.W. Behringer, N. Ferry, Y. Fujii, T. Lee, M. Rienecker, T. Rosati, and D. Stammer, 2009 : “Ocean Initialization for Seasonal Forecasts” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 T. Lee, T. Awaji, M.A. Balmaseda, E. Greiner, and D. Stammer, 2009 : “Ocean State Estimation for Climate Research” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 P. Brasseur, N. Gruber, R. Barciela, K. Brander, M. Doron, A. El Moussaoui, A.J. Hobday, M. Huret, A.-S. Kremeur, P. Lehodey, R. Matear, C. Moulin, R. Murtugudde, I. Senina, and E. Svendsen, 2009 : “Integrating Biogeochemistry and Ecology Into Ocean Data Assimilation Systems” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 G. Goni, M. DeMaria, J. Knaff, C. Sampson, I. Ginis, F. Bringas, A. Mavume, C. Lauer, I.-I. Lin, M.M. Ali, P. Sandery, S. Ramos-Buarque, K. Kang, A. Mehra, E. Chassignet, and G. Halliwell, 2009 : “Applications of Satellite-Derived Ocean Measurements to Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasting” Oceanography, vol 22 N°3 Y. Xue, O. Alves, M. A. Balmaseda, N. Ferry, S. Good, I. Ishikawa, T. Lee, M. J. McPhaden, A. Peterson, M. Rienecker, 2009: Ocean State Estimation for Global Ocean Monitoring: ENSO and Beyond ENSO. Oceanobs’09 Community White Paper, available at http://www.oceanobs09.net Rienecker M., T. Awaji, M. Balmaseda, B. Barnier, D. Behringer, M. Bell, M. Bourassa, P. Brasseur, L.-A. Breivik, J. Carton, J. Cummings, E. Dombrowsky, C. Fairall, N. Ferry, G. Forget, H. Freeland, W. Gregg, S. M. Griffies, K. Haines, D. E. Harrison, P. Heimbach, M. Kamachi, E. Kent, T. Lee, P.-Y. Le Traon, M. McPhaden, M. J. Martin , P. Oke, M. D. Palmer, E. Remy, A. Rosati, A. Schiller, D. M. Smith, D. Stammer, N. Sugiura, K. E. Trenberth, Y. 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