International audienceSince 2008, a local-scale hydrodynamic model of the Bay of Toulon has been developed by Ifremer to be used in junction with the Veolia Girac wastewater Simulator in order to represent bacterial contamination in sea water related to plume outftow. This model was built with the MARS3D numerical code to generate, every 30 minutes, the current components, salinity and temperatures values. The grid has a 25 meters horizontal resolution and 30 unequally-spaced vertical sigma levels. The calibration and validation process of such model requires many measuring devices: CTD profiler for vertical stratification, TSG (thermosalinograph) for surface salinity maps, ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profiler) to get the vertical distri...