Title

Drifting surface buoys

Date (Creation)

1971-12-01

Abstract

Measurements by drifting surface buoys. This system is a drifting mooring consisting of a surface buoy fastened to a floating anchor by a cable (trip line, buoy rope). It has to monitor as precisely as possible the water volume in which the floating anchor is immersed. The surface buoys are traced by Argos satellites.

Credit

LOCEAN, Météo France

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
LOCEAN	Gilles Reverdin	gilles.reverdin@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr	Local service desk
Météo France	Paul Poli	paul.poli@meteo.fr	Local service desk

Keywords

• Température

• Salinité

• Position

• Oxygène dissous

• Chlorophylle A - Fluorescence

• Vitesse du vent

• Pression atmosphérique

ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names

• Atmospheric pressure

• Pigments

• Dissolved oxygen

• Salinity

• Sea temperature

• Wind

Use limitation

Aucune condition ne s’applique

Access constraints

Copyright

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Spatial representation type

Vector

Language

Français

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Begin date

1971-01-01

Geometric object type

Curve

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/index.php	Global Drifter Program
WWW:LINK	http://www.coriolis.eu.org/Data-Products/Data-Delivery/Data-selection	CORIOLIS
WWW:LINK	https://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/smos/drifters/	LOCEAN
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download	ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/phod/buoydata/	Global Drifter Program
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download	http://www.ifremer.fr/erddap/tabledap/DBCPDriftingBuoysGDAC.html	Lien de téléchargement ERDDAP

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Today, operational drifting buoys are 35-40 cm diameter spheres, with one 6-7 m long and 1 m diameter floating anchor, centered at a depth of 15 m. These buoys, known as SVP (Surface Velocity Programme), weigh about 25 kg and have been a part of the Global Drifter Programme (GDP) operated by the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) for almost 20 years. Some of these buoys are equipped with digital probes for measuring temperature and even, in some instances, SBE37 sensors for measuring salinity and temperature.

Metadata

File identifier

839e8b3e-8753-4cfa-bb79-99ce3d88e6cc

Metadata language

Français

Other language

Language	Character encoding
English	UTF8

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2024-04-09T14:51:20.734Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0