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

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

Credits for validation methodology and tools:

Eric Greiner, Mounir Benkiran, Nathalie Verbrugge, Hélène Etienne (CLS)
Fabrice Hernandez, Laurence Crosnier (MERCATOR OCEAN)
Nicolas Ferry, Gilles Garric, Jean-Michel Lellouche (MERCATOR OCEAN)
Stéphane Law Chune (Météo-France), Julien Paul (Links), Lionel Zawadzki (AS+)
Jean-Marc Molines (LGGE), Sébastien Theeten (Ifremer), Mélanie Juza (IMEDEA), the DRAKKAR and NEMO groups, the BCG group (Météo-France, CERFACS)
Bruno Blanke, Nicolas Grima, Rob Scott (LPO)

Information on input data:

Christine Boone, Gaël Nicolas (CLS/ARMOR team)

This bulletin gives an estimate of the accuracy of MERCATOR OCEAN’s analyses and forecast for the season of July-August-September 2014. 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), the Atlantic and Mediterranean zoom at 1/12° (PSY2), and the Iberia-Biscay-Ireland (IBI) monitoring and forecasting systems currently producing daily 3D temperature, salinity and current products. Surface Chlorophyll concentrations from the BIOMER1 biogeochemical monitoring and forecasting system are also displayed and compared with simultaneous observations. Finally the new release of BIOMER at ¼° horizontal resolution is introduced. The BIOMER4 products, available since September 2014, are shortly evaluated against the BIOMER1 products.