Salinity Data Table

 

Platform/Data type/Project Institution Web site        
TAO Moorings NOAA PMEL http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao
PIRATA Moorings NOAA PMEL www.pmel.noaa.gov/pirata
ARGO Floats Univ. Calif. San Diego www.argo.ucsd.edu
Seagliders Univ. Washington www.lop.apl.washington.edu/seaglider
J-CAD Arctic Buoys (drifting) JAMSTEC (Japan) http://www.jamstec.go.jp/arctic/J-CAD_e/jcadindex_e.htm
Global Drifters NOAA AOML http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/gdp.html
CLIVAR Repeat Hydrography CLIVAR/Carbon Hydrographic Program (UCSD) http://ushydro.ucsd.edu/data_centers.html
Surface Marine Data COADS - NOAA CIRES and ESRL www.icoads.noaa.gov
Time Series Data Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS); Hawaii Ocean Time Series (Univ. Hawaii) http://www.bbsr.edu/cintoo/bats/bats.html; http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/hot_jgofs.html
Time Series OceanSITES www.oceansites.org
Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) GOSUD (Ifremer) http://www.ifremer.fr/gosud/
Moored buoys NOAA National Data Buoy Center http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/mooredbuoy.shtml
Moored buoys Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) http://www.gomoos.org/
TRITON Indian Ocean buoys JAMSTEC (Japan) http://www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec/TRITON/real_time/top.html
Satellite Data Institution Website        
Aquarius Satellite Sea Surface Salinity NASA GSFC http://aquarius.nasa.gov
Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) CNES France http://smsc.cnes.fr/SMOS/
  Evaluated (QC'd) data and Data Centers Website        
World Ocean Database NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5
Profiles, TSG, buoys, glider data Coriolis Data Center (Ifremer) http://www.coriolis.eu.org/cdc/default.htm
GTSPP, profiles, buoys, floats, TSG Marine Environmental Data Service - Canada http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Home_e.htm
CSIRO Marine Research (Australia) http://www.marine.csiro.au/marine/mcdd/data/CSIRODMR/CSIRODMR_datasets.html
British Oceanographic Data Center (BODC) http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Japan Oceanographic Data Center www.jodc.go.jp
Analyses   Website        
US Global Ocean Data Assimilation Project www.usgodae.org
World Ocean Atlas NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center http://www.noaa.gov/OC5