The INGV Mediterranean Forecasting System (INGV-MFS) is currently one of the Monitoring and Forecasting Production Unit of the European MyOcean2 project. The system was implemented in 2000 by the INGV National Group of Operational oceanography (GNOO) and has been developed in years thanks to a number of European projects (see INGV Technical Report n. 163). The centre at INGV operates a near-real time validation system (Cal/Val and MFS-MyOcean System Evaluation) - which provides comparisons between model and observational data of the main ocean variables (SST, 3D temperature and salinity, sea level and currents) on dedicated websites and it releases a Quality Information Document (QuID) on MyOcean website, that illustrates validation diagnostics and quality of its products. Furthermore,...