Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection. The array provides 100,000 temperature/salinity profiles and velocity measurements per year distributed over the global oceans at an average of 3-degree spacing. Some floats provide additional bio-geo parameters such as oxygen or chlorophyll. All data collected by Argo floats are publically available in near real-time via the Global Data Assembly Centers (GDACs) in Brest (France) and Monterey (California) after an automated quality control (QC), and in scientifically quality controlled form, delayed mode data, via the GDACs within six months of collection.

Since 2004, several hundred seals have been equipped with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors in the Southern Ocean for both biological and physical oceanographic studies. A calibrated collection of seal-derived hydrographic data is now available from Coriolis, currently consisting of more than 300,000 temperature/salinity profiles. Delayed mode data, December 2014 https://doi.org/10.12770/0a82d60c-683d-47b8-8bd1-24933ec24983 on the Coriolis ftp server, in /ifremer/marine_mammals/. In a near future (summer 2015), seal data will be updated daily, and a monthly snapshot of the full database will be produced. through the Coriolis data selection tool (Sea mammal or Animal profiles).

GOSUD aims at assembling in-situ observations of the world ocean surface collected by a variety of ships and at distributing quality controlled datasets. At present time the variables considered by GOSUD are temperature and salinity. The GOSUD data are mostly collected using thermosalinographs (TSG) installed on research vessels, on commercial ships and in some cases on sailing exploration ships. GOSUD manages both near-real time (RT and NRT) data and delayed mode (DM-reprocessed) data. The GOSUD GDAC is hosted by the Coriolis data centre (France) and a back-up (permanent archived) is performed on a daily basis by NCEIS (NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information).

GO-SHIP, the Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program, is conducting repeat hydrography with high accuracy high precision reference measurements of a variety of EOVs through the whole water column. A selection of continent-to-continent full depth sections are repeated at roughly decadal intervals. The data archive for CTD data and bottle data is currently at CCHDO, although the CTD data from European cruises are available at Seadatanet as well.

This dataset shows the global distribution of seagrasses, and is composed of two subsets of point and polygon occurrence data. The data were compiled by UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre in collaboration with many collaborators (e.g. Frederick Short of the University of New Hampshire), organisations (e.g. OSPAR), and projects (e.g. the European project Mediterranean Sensitive Habitats “Mediseh”), across the globe (full list available in accompanying metadata table within the dataset).

The Digital Terrain Model of the Bay of Biscaye and of the Channel is the result of the processing of a compilation of single and multibeam echosounder data, of DTMs and of chart countours produced before 2008 for hydrodynamic modeling..

The Drifting Buoys GDAC -Global Data Assembly Centre- is the repository of surface drifters data. Both NRT -Near Real Time- and DM -Delayed Mode- data are available on the GDAC. Drifters report generally trajectories, sea-surface temperatures, atmospheric pressures at sea-level, as well as sea-surface salinity or sub-surface temperature in the ocean top layer.

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.

RasterMarine is a series of digital images taken from nautical charts, with no additions, legends or georeferencing information. The RasterMarine range is available at five sets of scales: - RasterMarine 20 1: 20,000 - RasterMarine 50 1: 50,000 - RasterMarine 150 1: 150,000 - RasterMarine 400 1: 400,000 - RasterMarine 1M 1: 1,000,000. Unless exceptional circumstances apply, the RasterMarine range is updated on a weekly basis and the modified grid squares are re-published, replacing the previous versions. All corrections, publications and editions with an effect on the reference nautical charts are taken into consideration. <br /> 13/03/2025 version <br />

Inventaire quantitatif et qualitatif des ressources publiques en France ayant des activités de recherche en Sciences et Techniques de la Mer. Ce jeu de données dresse une liste exhaustive des entités publiques en France (Unités de recherche, laboratoires, centres techniques, etc.) ayant des activités de recherche significatives et régulières en Sciences et Techniques de la Mer. Il permet d’identifier les thèmes de recherche de chaque entité, de connaître où et dans quel cadre organisationnel cette recherche est effectuée, et d'accéder aux effectifs de ces acteurs publics, répartis par catégorie de qualification (chercheurs, ingénieurs, techniciens…). En effet, chaque entité est décrite par un ensemble d'informations: description, localisation, organismes de tutelle, date d'évaluation par le Hcéres* si existante, classification par domaine Hcéres, par thème de recherche, ensemble de mots clefs décrivant l'activité de recherche en STM de l'entité et ses domaines d’application, effectifs de recherche en STM de l'entité en Équivalents Temps Plein par catégorie de personnel, classement de l'entité parmi 3 catégories: 100% Maritime, Partiellement maritime, Contributive, budget opérationnel de l'entité et la part de celui-ci consacré à la recherche en Sciences et Techniques de la Mer. Ces données sont bancarisées dans la base de données SERVEUR du SISMER. Les 7 couches proposées ici permettent de visualiser ces données sous forme de cartographie. Cette étude, réalisée par l’Ifremer, répond à une sollicitation du Conseil National de la Mer et du Littoral et de son comité spécialisé pour la recherche marine, maritime et littorale, le COMER, et a été co-financée par le Commissariat Général au Développement Durable (CGDD), dans le cadre d’une convention de partenariat et de subvention 17-MUTS-MER ET LITTORAL-1-CVS-002 2017 - n° Chorus 2 102 231 000, entre le Ministère de la Transition Écologique et Solidaire et l’Ifremer. Les résultats présentés ici ont fait l’objet d’une publication détaillant le besoin, la méthodologie et proposant de premières analyses : Moulinier Hervé, Vernet Marine, Dosdat Antoine, Petit De La Villeon Loic, Le Gall Morgane, Ibarra Doriane, Meillon Julien (2020). « Sciences et Techniques de la Mer », un inventaire national quantitatif et qualitatif des ressources publiques de recherche. https://doi.org/10.13155/76327 *Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur