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.