Alternate title

GLOBAL OCEAN MEAN SEA SURFACE

Date

Identifier

Sea level | Surface elevation annual mean (unspecified datum) of the water body | Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service | GLOBAL OCEAN MEAN SEA SURFACE

Other citation details

GLOBAL OCEAN MEAN SEA SURFACE

Purpose

Mean sea surface above Topex/Poseidon reference ellipsoid available on a 1/30 deg. x 1/30 deg. regular grid for the Global Ocean, Black Sea, Iberian-Biscayne-Irish Seas, North West Shelf-seas, Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Used by challenges

• BlackSea - CH05 - Coasts

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)

• Sea level

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Elevation

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Surface elevation annual mean (unspecified datum) of the water body

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• *

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Sea level

Service extent

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

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Not or not well documented

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Distance

0.033  degree

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Altimeter data will be used for calculating regional sea level trends and time-series for the past 10, 50 and 100 years and to produce spatial layers and raw data of sea level from altimetry on a yearly basis covering the last 10 years.

Begin date

1993-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2000-01-01T00:00:00

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

pluri-annual mean  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• NetCDF ()

OnLine resource

GLOBAL OCEAN MEAN SEA SURFACE ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

SEALEVEL_GLO_MSS_L4_REF_OBSERVATIONS_008_015 ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://marine.copernicus.eu/web/69-interactive-catalogue.php?option=com_csw&view=details&product_id=SEALEVEL_GLO_MSS_L4_REF_OBSERVATIONS_008_015

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

5e423c72-3483-4e70-bfab-c4a0f9292423 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

BlackSea - CH05 - Coasts

Date stamp

2018-03-16T08:42:22Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0