DBCP Data Access

Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) data are available online at the Global Drifter Program (GDP), Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centre for Drifting Buoy Data (RNODC-Drifters), Data Assembly Center (DAC), Earth System Research Lab (ESRL), and NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

Access the Databases

• The Earth System Research Lab (ESRL) provides information about current sea surface temperatures.

| Access SST Database |

• The Data Assembly Center (DAC) assembles and provides uniform quality control of sea surface temperature (SST) and surface velocity measurements. These measurements are obtained as part of an international program designed to make these data available in an effort to improve climate prediction.

| Access DAC Data |

The DAC also archives three levels of data with the Marine Environmental Data Service, which are B Files, P&S Files, and K Files.

| Access Marine Environmental Data |

• The Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centre for drifting buoy data (RNODC - Drifting Buoys) operates a data base for real time drifting buoy data from the GTS, and for delayed mode drifting buoy data from other sources. The RNODC is a data center of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) system and is operated by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) in Canada.

| Access the archives of the RNODC |

• The Global Drifter Program (GDP) provides satellite-tracked surface drifting buoy observations of currents, sea surface temperature, atmospheric pressure, winds and salinity.

| Access GDP Data |

• Weekly and monthly seas surface data as well as climatology information for the globe are provided by Joint Commission of Marine and Meteorology Products (JCOMM)

| Access JCOMM Data |

Quality Control

The DAC provides uniform quality control of sea surface temperature (SST) and surface velocity measurements.

• TAO data quality control

Page reviewed or revised June 28, 2007