Data Information Unit (WDIU)
| Data Information Unit |
| Data Summaries |
| Bathymetry |
| Current Meters |
| Drifters |
| Sub Surface Floats |
| Hydrography |
| Profiling Floats |
| Satellite Sea Level |
| Satellite Sea Surface Temperature |
| Satellite Surface Winds |
| Sea Level - Delayed Mode |
| Sea Level - Fast Return |
| Sea Surface Salinity |
| Shipboard ADCP |
| Surface Meteorology |
| Upper Ocean Thermal |
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Data Sets on WOCE Data DVD Disk 1: Data
Sets on WOCE Data DVD Disk 2: |
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to the Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Directory on this DVD |
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At the very heart of WOCE were the global measurements made by satellites. The primary interest for WOCE lay with satellite altimetry and its associated geophysical variables of sea level variability and wave height. There were 3 altimeters operating during WOCE, the French and USA satellite TOPEX/POSEIDON (since August 1992), and the European Space Agency satellites ERS-1 (since late 1991) and ERS-2 (since April 1995). In addition the US GEOSAT mission operated just prior to the WOCE field programme. Also of interest are wind speed from scatterometers (the NASA scatterometer NSCAT, and ERS-1 and ERS-2), sea surface temperature (the USA AVHRR or Advance Very High Resolution Radiometer) and water vapour content (TOPEX/POSEIDON and the US Special Sensor Microwave Imager or SSMI). Satellite data are managed by a variety of agencies and data centres, so there are no WOCE satellite DACs. However, the agencies involved have provided for WOCE all the functions of WOCE satellite DACs and have contributed to Version 3.0 of the WOCE Global data set. From Physical Oceanography DAAC at JPL/NASA:
From CERSAT ( IFREMER/France and ESA):
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