ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2010

The main focus of the annual ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) is the observed variability in the upper ocean (the upper 1000 m), and the introductory section includes gridded fields constructed by optimal analysis of the Argo float data distributed by the Coriolis data centre in France. Later in the report, a short section summarizes the variability of the intermediate and deep waters of the North Atlantic. The data presented here represent an accumulation of knowledge collected by many individuals and institutions through decades of observations. It would be impossible to list them all, but at the end of the report, we provide a list of contacts for each dataset, including e-mail addresses for the individuals who provided the information, and the data centres at which the full archives of data are held. More detailed analysis of the datasets that form the time-series presented in this report can be found in the annual meeting reports of the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography at http://www. ices.dk/workinggroups/ViewWorkingGroup.aspx?ID=146.