EGO Gliders : Data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (EGO GDAC)
The Everyone's Gliding Observatories (EGO) initiative is a gathering of several teams of oceanographers, interested in developing the use of gliders for ocean observations. EGO started in Europe with members from France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The partners of EGO have been funded by both European and national agencies to operate gliders for various purposes and at different sites. Coordinated actions are being set up for these sites in order to demonstrate the capabilities of a fleet of gliders for sampling the ocean, with a given scientific and/or operational objective.
Gliders were developed since the 90’s to carry out in-situ observations of the upper 1km of the ocean, filling the gaps left by the existing observing systems. Gliders look like small autonomous robotic underwater vehicles which that uses an engine to change their buoyancy. While gliding from surface to about 1000 meters, gliders provide real-time physical and biogeochemical data along their transit.
They observe temperature, salinity, pressure, biogeochemical data or acoustic data.
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EGO Gliders : Data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (EGO GDAC)
- Date (Publication)
- 2004-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- 1282383d-9b35-4eaa-a9d6-4b0c24c0cfc9
- Abstract
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The Everyone's Gliding Observatories (EGO) initiative is a gathering of several teams of oceanographers, interested in developing the use of gliders for ocean observations. EGO started in Europe with members from France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The partners of EGO have been funded by both European and national agencies to operate gliders for various purposes and at different sites. Coordinated actions are being set up for these sites in order to demonstrate the capabilities of a fleet of gliders for sampling the ocean, with a given scientific and/or operational objective.
Gliders were developed since the 90’s to carry out in-situ observations of the upper 1km of the ocean, filling the gaps left by the existing observing systems. Gliders look like small autonomous robotic underwater vehicles which that uses an engine to change their buoyancy. While gliding from surface to about 1000 meters, gliders provide real-time physical and biogeochemical data along their transit.
They observe temperature, salinity, pressure, biogeochemical data or acoustic data.
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EGO gliders
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EGO gliders
Author Coriolis
Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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gliders
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global ocean observing system
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ocean circulation
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in-situ
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ocean pressure
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sea water salinity
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sea water temperature
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multi-year
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weather climate and seasonal observation
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global-ocean
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biogeochemical data
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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Centre de données ODATIS
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CDS-IS-CORIOLIS
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Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
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/in-situ observations/Networks
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Thèmatiques ODATIS
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Observation system for research
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Operational oceanography
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AtlantOS Element
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Networks
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ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
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Salinity
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Turbidity
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Sea temperature
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- Use limitation
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A user should acknowledge use of glider data in all publications and products where such data are used, preferably with the following standard sentence:"These data were collected and made freely available by the EGO initiative and the national programs that contribute to it."
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other legal constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
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A user should acknowledge use of glider data in all publications and products where such data are used, preferably with the following standard sentence:"These data were collected and made freely available by the EGO initiative and the national programs that contribute to it."
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2004-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 1000000000
- Distribution format
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Name Version
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
http://www.ego-network.org/ EGO Web Site
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download
ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/glider/v2/ GDAC FTP
WWW:LINK
http://doi.org/10.13155/34980 EGO gliders NetCDF format reference manual
WWW:LINK
http://doi.org/10.17882/45402 EGO gliders data processing chain
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download
http://www.ifremer.fr/erddap/tabledap/OceanGlidersGDACTrajectories.html ERDDAP Download link
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Inspire specifications
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-01-16
- Explanation
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Non évalué
- Pass
Metadata
- File identifier
- 589bfa51-2219-4cc8-a19e-83f3c3f27bb4
- Metadata language
- English
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- Date stamp
- 2021-05-18T18:41:39
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Coriolis
Local service desk