MEDSEA_REANALYSIS_PHY_006_009

Short Description

The 60 years reanalysis has been produced by combining, every day, the output of the ocean model, forced by atmospheric surface fluxes and relaxed to SST, and quality controlled ocean observations. The hydrodynamics are supplied by the Nucleos for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO), with a variational data assimilation schema (OceanVar) thanks to which salinity and temperature profiles and satellite Sea Level Anomaly along track data are jointly assimilated to estimate the initial condition for numerical ocean model. The model horizontal grid resolution is 1/16° (ca. 6-7km) and the unevenly spaced vertical levels are 72. It spans the time period 1955-2015 and it is yearly updated.