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KEY BENEFITS
- Generating reliable information from observations.
- Comprehensive collection of observations (> 100 data sources; different providers).
- Advanced data management (> 14 years of experience).
- Information quality (own quality control processes).
- Delivering tailor-made monitoring services (combined use of in-situ and satellite data).
- Creating synergies between observations, models and AI-based solutions.
Observational Data Product Management
Our team can collect and process a widespread variety of oceanographic data from marine environmental measurement networks around the world, including:
- In-situ data from mooring buoys, drifters, profilers, tide gauges, HF radars, saildrones, etc.; as Copernicus Marine Provider, dealing with 6500 active stations (/50,000 historical ones) from more than 150 providers worldwide.
- Satellite data for surface temperature, salinity, sea level anomaly, significant wave height, ocean color, and chlorophyll; using datasets from most recent missions (Sentinels -S3 and S6- ones or the new Chinese-French CFOSAT mission) and planning to include forthcoming ones (i.e. related to swath altimetry).
We collect observational data in near-real-time basis, applying to them quality controls to later generate homogeneous observational data products. Resulting products are used for:
- Service purposes: NOW is a Copernicus Marine InSitu TAC.
- Supporting NOW modelling activities (observations assimilated or used for model validation).
- Dissemination through our end-user applications, and support to our taylor made warning systems.
What data do we integrate?
Essential variables
- Water temperature
- Salinity
- Currents
- Sea Level
- Waves
- Chlorophyll
- Oxygen
- Carbon
- PH
- Flow river discharges
- Coastal run-off
- Atmospheric pressure
- Wind
- Precipitation
- Temperature
- Surface radiative and heat fluxes