NOAA - Australasian Surface Drifting Buoys

• Other Authors: AODN Data Manager (distributor), Data Officer (distributor), Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) (hasAssociationWith), NOAA Ocean Climate Observation Program (pointOfContact), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Integrated Marine Observing System
• Subjects: oceans; WATER TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; WATER PRESSURE; OCEAN PRESSURE; SALINITY; SALINITY/DENSITY; Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean; Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean; Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean; Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight; SA/WA; Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait; TAS/VIC; Regional Seas | Tasman Sea; Regional Seas | Timor Sea; Regional Seas | Coral Sea; Regional Seas | Arafura Sea; Regional Seas | Java Sea; Regional Seas | Celebes Sea; Regional Seas | Banda Sea; Regional Seas | Solomon Sea; Regional Seas | South China Sea; Regional Seas | Philippine Sea; Global / Oceans | Atlantic Ocean; Regional Seas | Arabian Sea; Marine Features | Bay of Bengal; Regional Seas | Mozambique Channel; Countries | Australia; Countries | New Zealand; Countries | New Caledonia; Countries | Vanuatu; Countries | Fiji; Countries | Papua New Guinea; Countries | Indonesia; Countries | Timor-Leste; Countries | Philippines; Countries | Malaysia; Countries | Thailand; Countries | China; Continents | South America; Continents | Africa; Continents | Asia; Countries | Madagascar; Countries | India; Countries | Sri Lanka; Countries | Vietnam; drifting surface float; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/noaa-australasian-surface-drifting-buoys/961129

This dataset contains the tracks of surface drifting buoys in the Australasian region, deployed as part of the Global Drifter Program (GDP). The GDP collects operational, near-real time surface velocity, sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface salinity, and sea level pressure observations (not presented here) for numerical weather forecasting, research, and in-situ calibration/verification of satellite observations. The GDP is managed in close cooperation between the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida, and the branch of the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate (CIMEC) located at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. Access to the data (not updated since 2014), represented by this metadata record, has been removed from the AODN Portal (09/08/2021).