Alternate title

GLOBAL OCEAN 1/12° PHYSICS ANALYSIS AND FORECAST UPDATED DAILY

Date

Identifier

Density of the water column | Sigma-theta of the water body by computation from salinity and potential temperature using UNESCO algorithm | Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service | GLOBAL OCEAN 1/12° PHYSICS ANALYSIS AND FORECAST UPDATED DAILY

Other citation details

GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHYS_001_002

Purpose

Past 2 years of gridded ocean density and velocity analysis

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Daily

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Delayed

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)

• Density of the water column

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Sigma-theta of the water body by computation from salinity and potential temperature using UNESCO algorithm

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Other physical oceanographic measurements

Service extent

• The datasets are provided through an EU Inspire catalogue service (OGC)

Validation

• Draft

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

0.08  Degrees

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Internal Energy: Potential use as part of the calculationtaking the gridded density (from T&S)

Begin date

2013-01-01T00:00:00

Number of dimensions

1 to 450

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

Days  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• NetCDF ()

OnLine resource

GLOBAL OCEAN 1/12° PHYSICS ANALYSIS AND FORECAST UPDATED DAILY ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

GLOBAL_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_PHYS_001_002 ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://marine.copernicus.eu/documents/QUID/CMEMS-GLO-QUID-001-002.pdf

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

50-level vertical discretization: 1 m resolution at the surface decreasing to 450 m at the bottom, and 22 levels within the upper 100 m.

-0.4940254, -1.541375, -2.645669, -3.819495, -5.078224, -6.440614,

-7.92956, -9.572997, -11.405, -13.46714, -15.81007, -18.49556, -21.59882,

-25.21141, -29.44473, -34.43415, -40.34405, -47.37369, -55.76429, -65.80727,

-77.85385, -92.32607, -109.7293, -130.666, -155.8507, -186.1256, -222.4752,

-266.0403, -318.1274, -380.213, -453.9377, -541.0889, -643.5668, -763.3331,

-902.3393, -1062.44, -1245.291, -1452.251, -1684.284, -1941.893, -2225.078,

-2533.336, -2865.703, -3220.82, -3597.032, -3992.484, -4405.224, -4833.291,

-5274.784, -5727.917

File identifier

dc659347-e639-46b8-87ee-2daeca09af25 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH04 - Climate

Date stamp

2016-12-14T13:54:37Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0