EDMED Details

General

Dataset Name

Mediterranean Surface Drifter Database (1986-1999)

Data Holding Centre

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Time Period

From 2 June 1986 to 11 November 1999

Start Date

1986-01-01

End Date

1999-12-31

Project

Geographic Area

Geocoverage

Adriatic, Ionian Sea and Mediterranean Sea (box 30-46N, 5W-40E)

Geographic Box (south,north,west,east)

30, -5, 40, 46

Sea Area

Mediterranean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Observations

Parameters

Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

Temperature of the water column

Instruments

satellite tracking system

Description

Summary

Mediterranean Drifters - This CD-ROM contains the data of satellite-tracked surface drifters in the Mediterranean Sea for the period June 1986 to 11 November 1999. The drifters were deployed in the Mediterranean Sea for sientific and operational purposes by various institutions from different countries. Their raw data were kindly made available to be inserted into this common database. The raw drifter data, essentially position (latitude and longitude) and sea surface temperature, were first reduced and edited for spikes and outliers. They were them interpolated at uniformally distributed times, low-pass filtered and sub-sampled at 6-hour intervals. A html-based browser was designed to facilitate access to the data. Individual plots (trajectories and time-series), composite trajectory plots (spaghettie diagrams) and animations as well as documentation on the data processing are easily accessible through standard HTML documents, and can be visualized using a web viewer such as Netscape or similar. The processed drifter data are also provided in the form of MATLAB binary files. The original raw drifter data was provided by the following institutes: Naval Postgraduate School, NATO Undersea Research Centre, Naval Oceanography Office, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Istituto Universario Navale, Telespazio, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale and Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. Funding was principally provided by a grant from the United States Office of Naval Research to Pierre-Marie Poulain.

Originator

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

References

"Poulain, P.-M., 1999. Drifter observation of surface circulation in the Adriatic Sea between December 1994 and March 1996. J. Mar. Sys., In press. " 1999-06-01, unknown, unknown

"Poulain, P.-M. and P. Zanasca, 1998. Drifter and float observations in the Adriatic Sea (1994-1996) - Data report, SACLANTCEN Memorandum, SM-340, La Spezia, Italy SACLANT Undersea Research Centre." 1998-06-01, unknown, unknown

Availability

Availability

unknown

Organization

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Contact

Poulain P.M.

Address

OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography

Sgonico (Trieste)

34010

Italy

ppoulain@ogs.trieste.it

http://www.ogs.trieste.it/

Administration

Local identifier

1268

Creation Date

2014-10-02

Revision Date

2011-12-22