GODAE Final Symposium

Ocean Briefings

Real-time Ocean BriefNorth East Atlantic

Contributors:Dave Storkey (Met Office)Silvana Buarque (Mercator-Ocean)Joe Metzger (Naval Research Laboratory)

Observation coverage (North Atlantic)

profiles altimeter

NCODA5/11/08

FOAM8/11/08

100 obs ~3000 obs

Observation coverage (North Atlantic)

SST (GHRSST data) Sea ice (SSMI)

FOAM8/11/08

NCODA5/11/08

~140000 obs

SST anomalies from OSTIA and FOAM global 1º model: early Sep 2008

-4 deg C +4 deg C

OSTIA - NCEP

FOAM – ENACT (45m)

Shallow cold anomaly (-2ºC)

SST anomalies from OSTIA and FOAM global 1º model: early Nov 2008

-4 deg C +4 deg C

OSTIA - NCEP

FOAM – ENACT (45m)

Warm anomaly (+2ºC)

Synoptic situation: 00Z 5th November

FOAM N Atlantic 1/12º model: mixed-layer depth (density criterion)

00Z 3/11/2008 00Z 5/11/2008

Mercator PSY2V3 MNATL12 model: mixed-layer depth (density criterion)

00Z 29/10/2008 00Z 5/11/2008

HYCOM model: mixed-layer depth

Alboran Sea surface current forecasts: VT 11/11/2008

FOAM 1/9º1-day forecast

Mercator 1/12º PSY2V3Analysis 12/11/2008

0 m/s 1 m/s

1 m/s

0 m/s

Alboran Sea surface current forecasts: VT 11/11/2008

FOAM 1/9º1-day forecast

Mercator 1/12º PSY2V3Analysis 12/11/2008

HYCOMAnalysis

Observation coverage (Mediterranean)28/10/2008

profiles altimeter

SST

Sea ice minimum Sep 2008

http://nsidc.org/news/press/20081002_seaice_pressrelease.html

Sea ice concentration11/11/2008

HadISST 1990-1999November mean

FOAMORCA025-LIM

Mercator PSY2V3ORCA025-LIM

http://project.ab-hosting3.co.uk/B4G/noos.php

7.5 ºC 10.0 ºC

13.26 ºC 13.27 ºC

4 ºC

0 ºC

SST in North Sea (2)

satellite model

1/11/2007

1/11/2008

Met Office analysis 28/10/2008

Visibility in North Sea (18th Oct)

satellite composite model “composite”

0m 50m

Acknowledgements