1 Data information

Global collection. Autonomous measuring systems on buoys allow measurement of standard oceanographic parameters (temperature, salinity, currents). They are the Lagrangian way of measuring the sea currents.

1.1 Metadata

Access metadata from landing page

2 Geographical extent

2.1 Coordinates

## [1] "West-Longitude: 8.91"
## [1] "South-Latitude: 40.87"
## [1] "East-Longitude: 9.91"
## [1] "North-Latitude: 41.52"

2.2 Defined area

Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.

3 Drifting Buoys - Trajectory Observation

3.1 Access data

The Web Feature Service (WFS) of the EMODnet Physics portal allows collecting the data:
http://geoserver.emodnet-physics.eu/geoserver/emodnet/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.0

Available labels:

##  [1] "FID"                  "fid"                  "position"            
##  [4] "PlatformID"           "MapPlatformID"        "ProjectsDescr"       
##  [7] "PlatformCode"         "WMOCode"              "SeaRegionCode"       
## [10] "SeaRegionDescr"       "ParametersGroupCode"  "ParametersGroupDescr"
## [13] "ParametersCodeDescr"  "DataTypeDescr"        "LastDataMeasured"    
## [16] "Country"              "DataOwner"            "DataProvider"        
## [19] "LogoURL"              "PlatformTypeCode"     "PlatformInfoLink"    
## [22] "ColorFeatures"        "ProjectsCode"


Download data for the defined geographical extent:

Excel file Geographic information
csv geojson

3.2 Table

Browse table’s columns by using the left and right arrows. Turn the table’s pages with help of the previous/next buttons.

3.3 Map

3.4 Map with id

3.5 Interactive map

Visualise and access data with Openlayer (click on the map)