MyOcean2 First Annual Meeting – 17-18 April 2013

MONITORING & FORECASTING

CENTRES:an overview

Marina Tonani with the contribution of all the MFC’s leaders

MyOcean2 First Annual Meeting – Cork /16-17 April 2013

7 Monitoring and Forecasting Centres

MyOcean2 First Annual Meeting – 17-18 April 2013

MFCs geographycal distribution

Outline

MyOcean2 First Annual Meeting – 17-18 April 2013

•List of MFCs

•Description of external, intermedite and specific core porducts porduced by MFCs

•Description of the component of the MFC’s (model, DA, ..)

•Real Time products

•Reanalysis and long time series of hindcast

•Conclusion

External Products

V3.0_EPST_External_Products_Spec_Table_1.78.xlsx

MFC RT products (AN an/or FC) DT products (hindcast or reanalysis)

PHYS BIO PHYS BIO

V0 V2 V3 V0 V2 V3 V0 V2 V3 V0 V2 V3

GLOBAL X X X O O X X

ARTIC X X X O O X X X X

BALTIC O O O O O X X

NWS X X X O O O O O O O

IBI O O O

Med X X X O X X X X O O

BS X X X X X X X

O no data assimilation

X with data assimilation

Each MFC produces RT products (hindcast and forecast) and hystorical data series (reananlysis

or hindcast)

Intermediate Products

V3.0_IPST_Intermediate_Products_Spec_Table_1.18.xlsx

PC IBI MED

GLO IC*

LBC LBC (R&D)

IBI MED

Backup IBI_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHYS_005_001_c MEDEA_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHYS_006_001_b

Specific Core Products

Static images Static images + netCDF

SST seasonal T, S, currents

seasonal T, S, currents & anomaly

fc day1 surface surface-bottom

GLO X X

BAL X

NWS X

MED X X

BS X X

V3.0_SCPST_Specific_Core_Products_Spec_Table_1.1.xlsxnew

MFC short description

Dombrowsky et al., Mercator newsletter, October 2012

MFC OGCM Ice model (code/rheology)

Wave DA code BGC

GLO NEMO (1.09) 3.1

(LIM/VP) – LIM/EVP No Singular Extended Evolutive Kalman SEEK

Pisces/offline

ARC HYCOM 2.2.37

NERSC 2 cat/EVP No EnKF Norwecom/online

BAL HBM Thermodynamic only No No DMI-ERGOM

NWS NEMO 3.2

N/A No OI scheme (Ocnasm) PML ERSEM

IBI NEMO 2.3

N/A No NO No

MED NEMO 3.2 (2.3)

N/A WWW-III (WAM)

OceanVar OPATM BFM/offline

BS MHIC No No OI scheme MHI model v1

Update described in the MyO doc. and by personal communication from the MFCs

leaders

MFC -OGCM short description-1

Dombrowsky et al., Mercator newsletter, October 2012

MFC Forcing fields

Freq of forcing

Atm press. term

Tides Bulk Vertical mixing

Free surface

GLO ECMWF daily-3hr No No CORE TKE implicit filtered

ARC ECMWF 6 hourly No No Kara et. al 2000

GISS (Canuto)

Explicit time split

BAL DMI-Hirlam&DWD

hourly Yes Yes Neutral Kara et al. 2000

K-omega (Canuto)

Explicit

NWS MetOffice hourly/3hr Yes Yes Direct Fluxes K-epsilon Explicit time split

IBI ECMWF 3 hr Yes Yes CORE K-epsilon Explicit time split

MED ECMWF 3-6 hr No No MFS P&P 1981 implicit filtered

BS Skyron 3 hr No No Direct Fluxes /BULK (wind)

Mellor & Yamada

unexplicit

MFC -OGCM short description-2

MFC NATIVE GRID PRODUCT GRID

HORIZONTAL VERTICAL HORIZONTAL # vertical levels

GLO 1/12-1/4 1/12 ORCA 50 z –levels (ZPS) 1/12-1/4 1/12reg. grid

50

ARC ~1/8 (10-15km) 28 hybrid layers ~1/8 (10-15km) 12

BAL ~2 km (~6km) 122 z-levels (109) ~2 km (~6km) 25

NWS 1/15x1/9 7km 34 s-levels 1/15x1/9 7km 24

IBI 1/36 50 z-levels (ZPS) 1/36 50

MED 1/16 72 z-levels (ZPS) 1/16 72

BS 0.061x0.044 (~5x5 km)

38 z-levels 0.061x0.044 (~5x5 km)

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Daily forecast production

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

GLO

ARC

BAL* 2v al di’

NWS

IBI

MED*

BS

daily mean

daily mean

daily mean

hourly inst.

hourly inst.

daily mean hourly inst

daily mean

daily mean hourly surf.

daily mean

daily mean

daily mean 3hr inst.

daily mean

MFC Number of fcst days Time resolution

PHYS BIO

Hindcast NRT production

The NRT aggregated data series are updated daily*.NRT product aggregated time series: 2 years-3 months ongoing

•weekly update of aggregated with assimilative hindcast prodcuts and 6 days “temporary” update withnon assimilative hindcast (GLO, ARC,MED)

•continuos daily update with non assimilative hindcast or assimilative hindcast (BAL, NWS,IBI and BS)

Reanalysis/Hindcast long time series

MFC PHYS/BIO PERIOD #yr TIME RES. Note

GLO PHYS 1993-2009 17 montlhy simulation

PHYS 1993-2009/2010 17-18 montlhy 3 dataset from 3 differents inst.

PHYS 1993-ongoing 20+ weekly/montlhy reproc. (Armor products)

ARC PHYS 1991-2010 20 montlhy

BIO 2007-2009 3 monthly

BAL PHYS 1990-2009 20 montlhy

NWS PHYS 1967-2004 37 montlhy hindcast no DA

BIO 1967-2004 37 montlhy hindcast no DA

IBI

MED PHYS 1999-2011 13 montlhy/daily

BIO 2001-2010 10 montlhy hindcast no DA

BS PHYS 1971-2001 30 daily

MFC netCDF files from SUBS

•ce51882763f8140922f3c5f96e086b82_dataset-topaz4-arc-myoceanv2-be_1c43112a60e61ff18c1affc24c23e809.nc

•dataset-ibi-analysis-forecast-phys-005-001-daily_1365601238314.nc

•global-analysis-forecast-phys-001-001-d-glo_1365414563111.nc

•dataset-hbmV2PHYS-bal-latestforecast_1365415886060.nc

•dataset-bs-mfc-daver-phys-for_1365693671261.nc

•myov02-med-ingv-sal-forecast_1365693615329.nc

•MetO-NWS-PHYS-dm-Agg_1365692865895.nc

ARC

IBI

GLO

BAL

BS

MED

NWS

100

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Conclusion

•Good level of harmonization among the different MFC’s

•system implementation

•products

•Continuos effort to share as much as possible

•Submission of a common paper?

Thanks to all the MFC’s leader for their contribution and collaborationThanks to Laurence Crosnier for her support for the retrivineg and “interpretation” of

the MyO relevant documents.