GODAE/FNMOC Realtime Daily In-Situ Profile

USGODAE/FNMOC PROFILE - Fixed/drifting buoy, bathy, and PALACE float data

Observational data from the FNMOC Ocean QC process are posted in near real-time to the USGODAE server. These files contain all of the unclassified in-situ data used to initialize the US Navy NOGAPS model, and all of the climate and background (forecast) values used in the QC process.
Profile - temperature and salinity climate profiles and climate variability products are now from GDEM 3.0, the Navy standard data base (global, 0.25 deg resolution, monthly files with 76 vertical levels).

Variables
Temperature (°C) and Salinity (psu)
ZonalGlobal by varies
MeridionalGlobal by varies
Vertical  
TemporalSep 1998 to Present by varies
Static?yes
Volume1239265 profiles
Serverpublic:
Sourcehttp://www.usgodae.org/cgi-bin/datalist.pl?summary=Go&dset=fnmoc_obs_profile 
AcquiredJan 1, 2004
APDRC contactZuojun Yu
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