Databases Inventory (EDMED Forms) 
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*DATASET-NAME: Mediterranean Surface Drifter Database

*TIME-PERIOD: From September 2001 on going.

*GEOGRAPHIC-COVERAGE: Mediterranean and Black Sea (box 30-46N, 5W-45E)

*PROJECT: Drifter Studies in the Mediterranean

*PARAMETERS: Temperature, Surface Current.

*INSTRUMENTS: CODE drifter, CMOD drifter, WOCE-SVP and GDP-MINIMET drifters, TRISTAR drifter, A111 and A104 drifters.

*SUMMARY: This data-sets contains the data of satellite-tracked surface drifters in the Mediterranean Sea. 
The drifters were deployed in the Mediterranean Sea for sientific and operational purposes by various institutions from different countries. 
The raw drifter data, essentially position (latitude and longitude) and sea surface temperature, were first reduced and edited for spikes and outliers. They were them interpolated at uniformally distributed times, low-pass filtered and sub-sampled at 6-hour intervals. 
A html-based browser was designed to facilitate access to the data. Individual plots (trajectories and time-series), composite trajectory plots (spaghettie diagrams) and animations as well as documentation on the data processing are easily accessible through standard HTML documents, and can be visualized using a web viewer such as Netscape or similar. The processed drifter data can also be provided in the form of MATLAB binary files. 
Main partners are: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Istituto Universario Navale, Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Naval Postgraduate School, NATO Undersea Research Centre, Naval Oceanographic Office, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Science of Ukraine. 

*REFERENCE: 

*CENTRE: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS.

*DATA-WEBSITE: http://doga.ogs.trieste.it/drifter/index.html

*STORAGE-MEDIUM: Digitised data on disc mass storage.

*AVAILABILITY: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS,
January 2006.

*CONTACT: Dr. Pierre-Marie Poulain

*COMPLETED-BY: A. Giorgetti (agiorgetti@ogs.trieste.it)

*ENTRY-DATE: 2004-11-23

Last update: 23/11/2004