Assimilation of science-quality ocean color products from Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) into HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

Hae-Cheol Kim1, James A Cummings2, Zulema D Garraffo2, Avichal Mehra3, Eric J Bayler4, Shastri Paturi5 and Sudhir Nadiga2, (1)SAIC at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, (2)IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Axiom/NOAA-NCEP-EMC, College Park, United States