CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Northward ocean current
Northward component of seawater velocity; positive values indicate motion toward the north.
- Canonical key
northward_sea_water_velocity- Parameter family
- Ocean currents
- Scientific category
- Physical ocean
- Canonical unit
- m s-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- northward_sea_water_velocity
- Vertical domain
- surface/water column
- Required qualifiers
- depth; averaging interval
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 6
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.
- Global Drifter Program (GDP) NOAA AOML
- GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA NOAA PMEL and international partners
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- IOOS National Glider DAC U.S. IOOS / NOAA
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch