Alternate title

ECMWF Ocean Reanalysis

Date

Identifier

Temperature of the water column | Temperature of the water body | ECMWF ORAS4 and ORTA4 | ECMWF Ocean Reanalysis

Other citation details

Ocean Reanalysis System 4 and Ocean Real Time Analysis System 4

Purpose

ECMWF estimates the state of the global ocean via the operational system Ocean-S4.  Ocean-S4 gives an estimate of the history of the ocean from September 1957 to present (with a few days delay) via the Ocean Reanalysis System 4 (ORAS4),  as well as the latest ocean conditions, provided by the real-time extension Ocean Real Time Analysis System 4 (ORTA4)

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Irregular

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Real-time

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is no information at all on data policy adopted by data providers

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)

• Temperature of the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• No information was found on data delivery mechanisms

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Temperature of the water body

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Water column temperature

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Water column temperature and salinity

Service extent

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

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Restricted

Use limitation

Not or not well documented

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

1  degree

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

The data will be used to estimate the trends in temperature in the Black Sea for the past 50 years

Begin date

1957-09-01T12:00:00

End date

2015-11-30T12:00:00 Before

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

daily  minute

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• netcdf ()

OnLine resource

ECMWF ORAS4 and ORTA4 Catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

ECMWF Ocean Reanalysis ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/ocean-reanalysis

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

b8abbb25-373a-4052-b70f-33527aa24080 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2018-03-26T12:39:09Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0