Regions with validation results from Copernicus Marine ARC-MFC

Full domain

Validation products:
• Sea surface temperature vs. data from drifting buoys
• Sea surface temperature vs. satellite data
• T, S profiles vs. data from ARGO profiling buoys
• Sea ice concentration vs. OSI SAF data
• Sea ice drift vs. SAR data
• Sea ice type vs. OSI SAF data
• Sea ice thickness vs. SMOS data
• Sea ice thickness vs. CryoSat data

South domain

Validation product:
• Sea level anomalies vs. JASON-2 data

Nordic Seas

Validation products:
• Sea surface temperature vs. data from drifting buoys
• Sea surface temperature vs. satellite data
• T, S profiles vs. data from ARGO profiling buoys

Nordic Seas south

Validation product:
• Sea level anomalies vs. JASON-2 data

Barents Sea

Validation products:
• Sea surface temperature vs. data from drifting buoys
• Sea surface temperature vs. satellite data

Arctic Svalbard

Validation products:
• Sea ice concentration vs. ice chart data
• Ice edge position vs. ice chart data

Arctic sectors

Note that this is a composite of three separate, non-overlapping regions:
• 65°W - 55°E (green sector)
• 55°E - 175°E (blue sector)
• 175°E - 65°W (red sector)

Validation product:
• Sea ice concentration vs. OSI SAF data
• Sea ice drift vs. SAR data
• Sea ice type vs. OSI SAF data

Atlantic sector

Validation product:
• Chlorophyll a

GODAE regions

1. Arctic Deep Basin
2. Queen Elisabeth Islands
3. Beaufort Sea
4. Chuckchi Sea
5. Siberian Sea
6. Laptev Sea
7. Kara Sea
8. Barents Sea
9. Greenland Basin
10. Southeast Greenland
11. Baffin Bay
12. Hudson Bay
13. Labrador Sea

Validation product:
• Sea ice concentration vs. OSI SAF data