CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Ocean-current speed
Magnitude of the horizontal seawater velocity vector at the stated depth.
- Canonical key
current_speed- Parameter family
- Ocean currents
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- m s-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_water_speed
- Vertical domain
- surface/water column
- Required qualifiers
- depth
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 4
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch