Alternate title

Direction and Intensity of average currents over vertical

Date

Identifier

Vertical velocity of the water column (currents) | current speed averaged over the water column | IFREMER | Direction and Intensity of average currents over vertical

Other citation details

Direction and Intensity of average currents over vertical Day:Month:year Hour:min

Purpose

To provide users with short-term forecasts about Direction and Intensity of average currents over vertical along the North east Atlantic French Coast

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Continual

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Real-time

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Vertical velocity of the water column (currents)

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• Forecast/Hindcast

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• current speed averaged over the water column

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Currents

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Current data will used as major indicator in fitness for use OWF siting assessment

Begin date

Now

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  hour

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• PNG ()

OnLine resource

Forecasts-Currents ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Direction and Intensity of average currents over vertical ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

NA but warns that these data result from simulations or from automated observations and are for general information purposes only

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

NA

File identifier

0dcf46ed-e33c-4e54-8256-804099e67661 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Date stamp

2017-05-04T11:32:32Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0