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NOAA - Australasian Surface Drifting Buoys

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This dataset contains the tracks of surface drifting buoys in the Australasian region, deployed as part of the Global Drifter Program (GDP). The GDP collects operational, near-real time surface velocity, sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface salinity, and sea level pressure observations (not presented here) for numerical weather forecasting, research, and in-situ calibration/verification of satellite observations. The GDP is managed in close cooperation between the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida, and the branch of the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate (CIMEC) located at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. Access to the data (not updated since 2014), represented by this metadata record, has been removed from the AODN Portal (09/08/2021).

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Title NOAA - Australasian Surface Drifting Buoys
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/7c669c35-b428-4cfc-9891-71fa137ca1bc
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
climate.observation@noaa.gov
Reference Period 09/08/2021
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NOAA - Australasian Surface Drifting Buoys". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/noaa-australasian-surface-drifting-buoys