The Marine Environment Reanalyses Evaluation Project MER-EP: towards an improved knowledge of the global ocean environment of the past decades, to support ocean applications and ocean prediction

Chunxue Yang, CNR Institute for Marine Science, Rome, Italy, Romain Bourdalle-Badie, Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France, Andrea Cipollone, CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy and Marie Drevillon, Mercator Océan, Toulouse, France