Inventories and Products
A sampling of products prepared by AOML is provided here. These include mean velocity estimates, variance about the mean velocity, contour plots of the number of data points, and mean velocity averages. A wider selection of products are available from the Global Drifter Center web
site at AOML. (
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/gdc.html)
These pictures show the distribution and sampling of drifting buoy data. A count is made of the number
of reports in each one degree square each year and then the number is coloured according to the scale
shown at the side. Note that in the scale, for example, 52 samples is on average 1 per week but there is
no guarantee that data were collected in every week of the year.
The following data summaries are divided by decade:
These additional maps show the drift tracks of the floats year by year.
Pictures: show images of a few of the langragian drifters used in the SVP.
The GDC provides directory files with each submission to MEDS. These are provided here.
These tables allow a search for information about a particular buoy either by the program number or by the buoy identifier.