Oceanographic data refers to information gathered about the ocean. It includes details about the water temperature, salinity, currents, wave heights, marine life, and other features of the ocean. Scientists collect this data to better understand and study the ocean and its various phenomena.
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The hitch is that the atmosphere's capacity to store heat is a factor of 20 less than that of the oceans, says Sydney Levitus of the
National Oceanographic Data Center in Silver Spring, Md. «The oceans really are the memory of Earths climate,» Levitus says.
The focus of the current phase of the project is strengthening the pan African network of National
Oceanographic Data Centre (NODCs), and marine related institutions, as a sustained mechanism for application of data, information and products in marine and coastal management in Africa.
«Their project will decisively contribute to the emerging area of undersea acoustic networking, which has an abundance of socially relevant applications such as search and rescue, pollution monitoring and
oceanographic data collection.»
«By coupling acoustic recorders with concurrently
collected oceanographic data, we can explore relationships between the physical and biological context of residence in or migration through the Bering Strait, and quantify the animals» fluxes in this gateway to the Arctic in a manner that allows the investigation of seasonal and annual changes,» she added.
«NASA has access to large - scale
oceanographic data sets ranging from primary productivity to ocean temperature, currents and wind,» Moore said.
Bénédicte Ferré is a physical oceanographer whose research activities span from sediment resuspension and transport to
oceanographic data associated with methane release.
The availability of both current and
historical oceanographic data from more geographic locations provides the commercial and tourism industries with increased insight into weather patterns and ocean conditions that could adversely affect the safety and efficiency of their maritime operations.
The
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has set up this Ocean Summer Schools website as a service to the global ocean science community.
Argo floats, such as this one deployed from a French vessel, have produced
valuable oceanographic data but new techniques are needed to track changes in the world's oceans.
He said the study employed oceanography models used extensively to study water flow in the region, which were then calibrated with
real oceanographic data.
«What we presented is our best - informed attempt to reveal the mechanisms involved in causing the event, based on the available
oceanographic data combined with the existing body of knowledge on the water circulation in and around the Torres Strait / Northern Great Barrier Reef region.»
Cruise participants had expected that
physical oceanographic data such as ocean temperature and salinity would be quarantined by Russian officials for some months.
The availability of both current and historical
oceanographic data provides the commercial and tourism industries with increased insight into weather patterns and ocean conditions that impact the safety and efficiency of their maritime operations.
She holds a PhD in Marine Optics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, 2012), focused on the development of new processing methodologies applied to hyperspectral
optical oceanographic data with the aim to improve the current capabilities to automatically identify different phytoplankton pigment assemblages in the ocean.
During the Cold war that even landed him in a Russian jail for espionage for a while, as he was visiting Russia on his quest
for oceanographic data (he once told me of that adventure over breakfast in a Beijing hotel).
Mehta, V. M., and H. Wang, 2010: Interannual variability of the West Pacific and West Atlantic warm pools in remote sensing based and ECCO -
assimilated oceanographic data sets.
This information was obtained by researchers combing through the Deep - sea Debris Database operated by the
Global Oceanographic Data Centre of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).
Other animals have been recruited to
gather oceanographic data, elephant seals in the Antarctic, and beluga whales in Svalbard have helped out scientists before, but this is the first time that narwhals have been involved.
We suggest that integrating this approach with
detailed oceanographic data will be a major new tool to identify the effects of natural climate variability versus anthropogenic global warming on ecosystem biochemistry and primary production.
Making the world's
public oceanographic data easily available and sortable is behind Marinexplore's platform, and the current iteration allows users to visualize and combine satellite data with in - situ ocean measurements from 10 different ocean platforms.
Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, Vencore employs 3,800 engineers, analysts, IT specialists and... Facilitate and support the exchange of
oceanographic data between NCEI and its affiliates for...
The National
Oceanographic Data Center holds over four million observations of currents that are available to scientists on CD ROM.
Bénédicte Ferré is a physical oceanographer whose research activities span from sediment resuspension and transport to
oceanographic data associated with methane release.
The Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa has been one of the most successful projects of the
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC).
Compare these two graphs which are from the National
Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) which also provides a range of other graphs looking at different aspects of sea level rise.
The whole time, it was busily collecting troves
of oceanographic data that it would transmit back to its human masters at WHOI and Scripps.
They also determined sea surface temperatures at similar breeding grounds all over the world, using satellite readings from the National
Oceanographic Data Center.
Oceanographic data and water samples also were collected daily to evaluate seawater chemistry, patterns of water circulation and potential connectivity between Cuban reefs and those in the U.S.
Completely independently of
this oceanographic data, a simple correlation analysis (Foster and Rahmstorf ERL 2011) showed that the flatter warming trend of the last 10 years was mostly a result of natural variability, namely the recently more frequent appearance of cold La Niña events in the tropical Pacific and a small contribution from decreasing solar activity.
One of my personal heroes, the oceanographer Syd Levitus, has dedicated much of his life to making
these oceanographic data freely available to everyone.
Data on bathymetry, demersal fish, sponges and sediments, and
oceanographic data, were used to identify a suite of unique seafloor bioregions comprising 41 provinces, three depth - related biomes on the continental slope, and geomorphic units that represent clusters of geomorphic features around the EEZ.
National
Oceanographic Data and Information Centres (NODCs) were established or reactivated in at least 25 member states in Africa.
Image adapted from the National
Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).
Note 2: In spring 2015, NOAA's NCDC (mentioned in various entries below) was merged into NOAA's NCEI (National Center for Environmental Information), a new entity combining the three centers: NCDC, NGDC, and NODC (National Climate, Geophysical, and
Oceanographic Data Center).
Next, this graph from the National
Oceanographic Data Centre, looking at Ocean Heat Content in the upper half of the ocean shows the following:
In 2005, the effort was expanded to include all routine underway geophysical and
oceanographic data collected with both the
And I think the various kinds of manipulations that geophysical and
oceanographic data are subjected would pose a challenge to archivists and blockchain technologists, particularly when large sets are combined using a specific algorithm embodied in code to produce a result.
Alicia Barton, President and CEO, NYSERDA said, «Access to better meteorological and
oceanographic data will enable New York to meet its ambitious offshore wind energy goals while protecting New York's coastal resources and marine environment.