Mediterranean and Black Sea (box 30-46N, 5W-45E)

Temperature of the water column

Satellite tracking system

This data-sets contains the data of satellite-tracked surface drifters in the Mediterranean Sea. The drifters were deployed in the Mediterranean Sea for sientific and operational purposes by various institutions from different countries. The raw drifter data, essentially position (latitude and longitude) and sea surface temperature, were first reduced and edited for spikes and outliers. They were them interpolated at uniformally distributed times, low-pass filtered and sub-sampled at 6-hour intervals. A html-based browser was designed to facilitate access to the data. Individual plots (trajectories and time-series), composite trajectory plots (spaghettie diagrams) and animations as well as documentation on the data processing are easily accessible through standard HTML documents, and can be visualized using a web viewer such as Netscape or similar. The processed drifter data can also be provided in the form of MATLAB binary files. Main partners are: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Istituto Universario Navale, Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Naval Postgraduate School, NATO Undersea Research Centre, Naval Oceanographic Office, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Science of Ukraine.

National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography
Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/c
Sgonico (Trieste)

34010
Italy