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WHAT YOU WILL FIND ON THIS WEB SITE

This site provides information on the Mersea project, and facilitates access to data and products,  to a diverse class of users.

• Overall project description, objectives and work plan, documents :

  • The project office link is restricted to project participants.

   

• The observing system :

  • remote sensing from satellites,

  • in situ data from ships and buoys,

  • atmospheric forcing fields.

   

• The operational systems that combine available observations to produce analysis and forecasts of ocean conditions (currents, temperature, salinity, etc...) for the global ocean and regional seas of Europe.

• User product applications describing how the data and information produced by the operational systems is used in practical marine applications : offshore industry support, ship routing, improved wave forecasts, oil spills, ecosystems.
  

• Data search is the main portal to access and download data and model output from the system.  
  

• Education describes the system and the project in terms suitable for a general audience : science educators, students, the press, and other interested parties.  
  

• Research & Development scientific results , research topics, and technical progress.