Sea Surface Salinity from Research Vessels and VOS (NRT & DM)

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).

Date (Creation): 2016-03-10

Identifier: GOSUD_GDAC

Credit: GOSUD

Status: onGoing On going

Point of contact

GOSUD - service desk

Maintenance and update frequency: Continual

Thèmes Sextant

/Physical Environment/Hydrodynamics/Water Column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features

Discipline

AtlantOS Element

Networks

Centre de données ODATIS

CDS-CORIOLIS

Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS

/Observational data/in-situ

Ocean Hackathon - Ville

Toulon

Ocean Hackathon - Ville

Brest

ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names

Salinity

National Services Observation

SNO-SSS

Use limitation: No condition applies

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Denominator: 1000000

Metadata language: English

Character set: utf8 UTF8

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 1990-01-01

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6

Geometric object type: Curve

Geometric object count: 2000

Distribution format

GOSUD NetCDF ( 2.0 )

Distributor

Coriolis - service desk ( GDAC )

OnLine resource: GOSUD web site ( WWW:LINK )
GOSUD web site

OnLine resource: Gosud (2022). GOSUD -Global Ocean Surface Underway data. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/47403 ( WWW:LINK )
DOI of the product

OnLine resource: Delayed mode & Latest ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )
Delayed mode & Latest (HTTPS)

OnLine resource: Latest ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )
Latest (FTP)

OnLine resource: Delayed mode ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )
Delayed mode (FTP)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Absolute external positional accuracy

Conformance result

Date (Creation): 2012-01-16

Explanation: Non évalué

Pass: No

Statement: The GOSUD data are T & S surface data acquired using thermosalinograph instruments on board R/V and Ships of opportunity.

The data are transmitted in Near real time whenever it is possible.

The data are then quality controlled and ajusted using water sample analysis.