PREVIMER is a pre-operational system aiming to provide a wide range of users, from private individuals to professionals, with observations and short-term forecasts about the coastal environment along the French coastlines bordering the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Coriolis data center aggregates in situ data for operational oceanography as well as research community needs. In collaboration with Puertos Del Estado, Coriolis provides an integrated access to in situ data in the IBI area.
The portal REFMAR (SHOM) coordinates the collection, archiving and dissemination of observations of sea level on all areas under French jurisdiction. This includes several tide gauge networks such as RONIM or ROSAME (a full lististing), with tide gauges sites in the southern Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean. Sea level observations are available in the form of unvalidated heights (raw data), validated heights, and surge values.
The operational IBI (Iberian Biscay Irish) Ocean Analysis and Forecasting system, daily run by Puertos del Estado and Mercator Ocean, provides a 5-day hydrodynamic forecast (+ 1 day of hindcast as best estimate) including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes (i.e. tidal forcing, surges and high frequency atmospheric forcing, fresh water river discharge, etc.). The system is based on a (eddy-resolving) NEMO model application run at 1/36 deg. horizontal resolution.