Drifting surface buoys

Measurements by drifting surface buoys. This system is a drifting mooring consisting of a surface buoy fastened to a floating anchor by a cable (trip line, buoy rope). It has to monitor as precisely as possible the water volume in which the floating anchor is immersed. The surface buoys are traced by Argos satellites.

Date (Creation): 1971-12-01

Credit: LOCEAN, Météo France

Point of contact

LOCEAN - Gilles Reverdin

Point of contact

Météo France - Paul Poli

Keywords

Température
Salinité
Position
Oxygène dissous
Chlorophylle A - Fluorescence
Vitesse du vent
Pression atmosphérique

Thèmatiques ODATIS

Operational oceanography
Observation system for research

ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names

Atmospheric pressure
Pigments
Dissolved oxygen
Salinity
Sea temperature
Wind

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Spatial representation type: Vector

Metadata language: Français

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 1971-01-01

Geometric object type: Curve

Distribution format

OnLine resource: Global Drifter Program ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource: CORIOLIS ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource: LOCEAN ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource: Global Drifter Program ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

OnLine resource: Lien de téléchargement ERDDAP ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )
Lien de téléchargement ERDDAP

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Today, operational drifting buoys are 35-40 cm diameter spheres, with one 6-7 m long and 1 m diameter floating anchor, centered at a depth of 15 m. These buoys, known as SVP (Surface Velocity Programme), weigh about 25 kg and have been a part of the Global Drifter Programme (GDP) operated by the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) for almost 20 years. Some of these buoys are equipped with digital probes for measuring temperature and even, in some instances, SBE37 sensors for measuring salinity and temperature.