We just published a new deliverable: Ocean Mesoscale Assessment!

What is ocean mesoscale?

Ocean mesoscale, which comprises eddies, fronts, and meanders at spatial scales of 10-100 km, is a dominant feature of the ocean circulation and plays a key role in the transport of heat, carbon, nutrients, and dissolved constituents, as well as pollutants. As such, mesoscale features are important agents for climate regulation, weather variability, and marine ecosystems. Observing the mesoscale is thus essential for climate services and ecosystem management.

ObsSea4Clim work on ocean mesoscale

The report presents an assessment of selected nations’ societal drivers and efforts to retrieve information about the ocean mesoscale. We investigated why countries should have access to information about the mesoscale, what approaches are used to retrieve this information, what access they have to data (incl. own efforts to sample the ocean), and how sufficient the data availability is to address the observational requirements
We also provide recommendations on how eventually the observing (data and data accuracy, data integration) should be modified to better address the nation’s needs for information.

📰 Access the full report here: https://zenodo.org/records/21645545