The Drifting Buoys GDAC -Global Data Assembly Centre- is the repository of surface drifters data. Both NRT -Near Real Time- and DM -Delayed Mode- data are available on the GDAC. Drifters report generally trajectories, sea-surface temperatures, atmospheric pressures at sea-level, as well as sea-surface salinity or sub-surface temperature in the ocean top layer.

Eunis-classified physical habitats physiques resulting from the combination of three physical variables meshed at a resolution of 250 metres: nature of the substrates, biological area, shearing tension on the sea floor. Coasts of mainland France. Ifremer report "Hamdi Anouar, Vasquez Mickael, Populus Jacques (2010). Cartographie des habitats physiques Eunis - Côtes de France. Ifremer/AAMP agreement n° 09/12177764/FY. http://archimer.ifremer.fr/ doc/00026/13751/ "

Number of tourist accommodations in coastal communities of marine subregions of the MSFD for the English Channel and North Sea, Western Mediterranean and Bay of Biscay. The data, collected as part of the initial assessment of the MSFD, is from the INSEE, DGCIS-Department of Tourism. Referent expert: Aurélien Guingand.

Composite DTM of the Estonian waters.

A world deep displacement dataset, named ANDRO, after a traditional dance of Brittany meaning a swirl, comprising more than 1300 000 deep displacements, has been produced from the Argo float trajectory data ('traj' files). ANDRO dataset was completed over the period 2000-2009, then was partially but yearly updated since 2010. For detailed information and status of the last released ANDRO product, please visit the dedicated Argo France web page: https://www.umr-lops.fr/SNO-Argo/Products/ANDRO-Argo-floats-displacements-Atlas One important feature of ANDRO is that the pressures measured during float drifts at depth, and suitably averaged are preserved in ANDRO. To reach this goal, it was necessary to reprocess most of the Argo raw data, because of the many different decoding versions (roughly 100) not always applied by the DACs to the displacement data because they were mainly interested in the p,t,S profiles. The result of our work was the production of comprehensive files, named DEP (for 'déplacement' in French), containing all the possibly retrievable float data.

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).