1. Silvana Buarque, Marie Drévillon, Charles Desportes, Charly Régnier
Mercator Products : last monitoring products and Ocean Indian monsoon ocean processes
Silvana Buarque, Marie Drévillon, Charles Desportes, Charly Régnier

2. Mercator Products : last monitoring products

3. Global Ocean : Present situation (March 2010)
Global SST Anomaly (1/4° resolution – Ref Levitus )
Heat content anomaly (first 300m) (1/4° resolution – Ref Levitus )

4. Global Ocean : Present situation (March 2010)
Hovmuller Depth anomaly T20°C (1/4° resolution Analysis – Ref Levitus )
Hovmuller Depth anomaly T20°C (ECMWF Analysis)

5. Equatorial Pacific Ocean : Present situation (March 2010)
Niño 3.4
SST mean : 28.1 °C
SST Anomaly : °C
SST Anomaly monthly tendency : °C
Niño 1+2
SST mean : 25.8 °C
SST Anomaly : °C
SST Anomaly monthly tendency : °C

6. Indian Ocean : Present situation (March 2010)
WTIO
SST mean : 29.9 °C
SST Anomaly : °C
SST Anomaly monthly tendency : °C
SETIO
SST mean : 29.4 °C
SST Anomaly : °C
SST Anomaly monthly tendency : °C

7. Indian Ocean : Present situation (March 2010)
Indian Ocean warmer than normal
negative wind stress anomaly in the very western part
Tendancy to warming in the western part of IO and Bengal Bay
West-East surface slope anomaly increasing
T and currents at 30m time tendancy (March - February)
Dynamic Height anomaly and surface currents (March)

8. Mercator Products : Ocean Indian monsoon ocean processes

9. Summer monsoon (JJA 2009), validation of meridional surface current
observations
analysis
southeastward current in the Oman sea
Distribution of meridional current errors

10. Winter monsoon (DJF 2009/2010), validation of zonal surface current
observations
analysis
Distribution of current direction errors
Drifter trapped in zonal westward winter monsoon current

11. Winter monsoon (DJF 2009/2010) validation of subsurface water masses
RMS difference between temperature in situ profiles and Mercator Océan analysis and forecast at various ranges, here hindcast or best analysis (0-500m)
Blue : Best Analysis (Hindcast)
Red : Forecast 6 Days
Cyan : Forecast 3 Days
Yellow : Persistency
Brown: ARIVO climatology ( )
Green : WOA05 climatology

12. Indian Monsoons and Upwelling Boreal Summer
Currents from western Arabian Sea to Bay of Bengal + Somali Current
The Great Whirl (5°N)
The Great Whirl et le Socotra Eddy (5°N and10°N)
Notes:
Intense surface and 30m currents
The Southern Gyre (SG)
The Great Whirl (GW) SC + Somali Current (SC) + Socotra Eddy (SE)

13. Indian Monsoons and Upwelling Boreal Summer
Currents from western Arabian Sea to Bay of Bengal + Somali Current
The Great Whirl (5°N)
Notes:
- Intense surface and 30m currents

14. Indian Monsoons and Upwelling Boreal Summer
The Great Whirl et le Socotra Eddy (5°N and10°N)
Notes:
- Intense surface and 30m currents

15. Indian Monsoons and Upwelling Boreal Winter
Somali Current
The Great Whirl (5°N)