- About
- The Science
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Frontier 1: Anthropogenic Climate Change
- Frontier 2: Decadal variability, predictability and prediction
- Frontier 3: Intra-seasonal and seasonal predictability and prediction
- Imperative 1: Improved atmosphere and ocean component models of Earth System Models
- Imperative 2: Data synthesis, analysis, reanalysis and uncertainty
- Imperative 3: Ocean observing system
- Imperative 4: Capacity building
- CLIVAR Endorsed Projects & Activities
- CLIVAR Objectives
- CLIVAR Successes
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Panels and Working Groups
- Global
- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Working Group
- CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)
- Global Synthesis and Observations Panel (GSOP)
- WGCM/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD)
- Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
- Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM)
- Regional
- National Programmes
- Global
- Extremes Cross-Cut
- Calendar
- Resources
- Publications
Drifter DACs (Surface Velocity program)
Real-time: Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS), Canada
Principal Contact: Bob Keeley
Email: keeley@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Website: http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_int/CLIVAR/SVP/SVP_e.htm
Data: http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Int/CLIVAR/SVP/kiel/data_e.asp
Delayed mode: Physical Oceanography Division, NOAA-AOML, USA
Principal Contact: Mayra Pazos
Email: mayra.pazos@noaa.gov
Website: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dacdata.html
Joint Responsibilities: The Surface Velocity Programme, SVP, of WOCE had been designed with two data centres being part of the DAC. The NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of Miami operates the Global Drifter Center (GDC) / Drifter DAC and the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans have been given the data management task for the drifting buoy data. AOML receives, assembles, processes and applies quality control to the data received from Service ARGOS and from international partners. MEDS acts as the archive and distributor of the data. In this latter respect, MEDS also holds the original data from which the KRIG data on this disk derive. As well, MEDS has other drifter data that may be of interest.
