MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S008
OceanSITES
Discover marine observations available through OceanSITES, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- OceanSITES / GDACs
- Role
- Reference mooring archive
- Platforms
- Deep-ocean moorings / fixed observatories
- Observed variables
- T/S; currents; meteorology; oxygen; carbon/BGC; radiation; sediments and site-specific sensors
- Spatial coverage
- Sparse global fixed reference sites
- Period
- Site/deployment dependent; multi-decadal at some sites
- Depth coverage
- Surface to full mooring instrument depth; sometimes bottom
- QC and data mode
- Minimal QC for RT/recovered; best available version; OceanSITES QC flags
- Access method
- Browse OceanSITES GDAC/catalog; download compliant NetCDF
- Indexed download targets
- 1
Canonical parameters
- Absolute salinity
absolute_salinity - Sea-level / barometric pressure
air_pressure_at_sea_level - Air temperature
air_temperature - Ammonium
ammonium - Water depth / bottom depth
bottom_depth - Chlorophyll-a concentration
chlorophyll_a - Cloud amount / cloud fraction
cloud_fraction - Conservative temperature
conservative_temperature - Ocean-current speed
current_speed - Dew-point temperature
dew_point_temperature - Dissolved oxygen concentration
dissolved_oxygen - Eastward ocean current
eastward_sea_water_velocity - Eastward Stokes drift
eastward_stokes_drift - Sea-water conductivity
electrical_conductivity - Nitrate
nitrate - Nitrite
nitrite - Northward ocean current
northward_sea_water_velocity - Northward Stokes drift
northward_stokes_drift - Phosphate
phosphate - Potential density
potential_density - Potential temperature
potential_temperature - Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Precipitation
precipitation - Primary-swell significant height
primary_swell_significant_height - Relative humidity
relative_humidity - Observation depth
sample_depth - Sea-ice concentration
sea_ice_concentration - Sea-ice thickness
sea_ice_thickness - Sea-surface height
sea_surface_height - Sea-surface salinity
sea_surface_salinity - Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature - Sea-water density
sea_water_density - Sea-water pressure
sea_water_pressure - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature - Significant wave height
significant_wave_height - Visibility
visibility - Wind direction
wind_direction_from - Wind gust
wind_gust - Wind speed
wind_speed - Wind-wave significant height
wind_wave_significant_height
Discovery and access
Excellent metadata conventions for discovery; use file-level extents plus variable inventory.