Mercator Ocean International provides customised state-of-the-art services and continued service improvements to both support operational activities and help advance the scientific goals of our shareholders. Today MOi has 10 valued shareholders in 5 countries, leading actors in operational oceanography worldwide:
- CMCC: Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici SRL (an Italian research centre dedicated to climate and climate-related research)
- CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (the National Research Council of Italy].
- CNRS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
- IFREMER: Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (French National Institute for Ocean Science)
- IRD: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development)
- Météo-France: French national meteorological and climate service
- Met Office: the United Kingdom’s national weather forecasting service
- NERSC: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (Norwegian non-profit research foundation)
- Puertos Del Estado: Spanish government agency responsible for implementing the government’s port policy
- SHOM: The Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (French National hydrographic service)
With its R&D activities, complex ocean simulation system, and expert forecasters, MOi covers the entire value chain of a highly-advanced operational oceanography centre offering our shareholders, partners and users from the public and private sectors a full range of tailored services.
MOi contributes to the activities of its shareholders, providing on-demand services and solutions for their mainstream operations as well as for specific scientific projects and sea campaigns. Examples of products and services provided include:
Production of information for Ocean Climate
- Data used for model calibration in investigating the ocean temperature dynamic trying to bridge machine learning and data assimilation techniques using realistic data
- Data used to analyse heat transport in the ocean in the EU Blue Action project
- Seasonal forecasting for polar regions under the SURVOSTRAL campaign
Production of information for Ocean and Ice services
- Support to oceanographic cruises, such as the Chukchi Sea campaign
Production of information for Ocean Health and Marine Diversity
- Scientific research on the impact of ocean currents on the marine organisms that inhabit local and regional areas, for example, around Okinawa and the Western Pacific
- Coral reef monitoring using products from the Copernicus Marine Service, which is operated by MOi
Production of information for Ocean Pollution
- Ocean current forecasting to feed the MOTHY pollutant drift model developed by Météo-France: Tracking the Wakashio Oil Spill in the Indian Ocean
- Oceanographic products to feed the MEDSLIK-II model used by the CMCC to track oil spills and threats of oil spills
Monitoring of Weather Hazards
Monitoring the Sea-Air Interaction
Co-development of Ocean Models
- Analysis of oceanic boundaries conditions for the Madeira Oceanic Forecasting System
- Mercator native data are also used by European producers of ocean forecasting models:
- MET Norway for Arctic physical model nesting
- Puertos del Estado for Iberian Biscay Irish (IBI) model
- the Met Office for North-West European Shelf (NWS) model nesting
- and by the Marine Forecasting Centres of the Copernicus Marine Service:
Regional studies on request
- Proliferation of Sargassum in the North and Tropical Atlantic
- Diagnosis of heat content in the Mediterranean Sea and analysis of precursors of heat events in the Mediterranean and Cevennes regions for the French Central Service for Flood Forecasting