WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION
UPPER OCEAN VELOCITIES
“AT THE RIGHT PLACE AND AT THE RIGHT TIME”
Despite the complexity of the ocean dynamics, a precise knowledge of upper-layer ocean circulation is essential for ensuring a sustainable ocean.
The ESA World Ocean Circulation (WOC) project aims at advancing the retrieval of accurate upper-layer ocean circulation.
The WOC project will develop synergetic products optimizing the capacy offered by Earth Observations as well as in-situ and numerical models by focusing on four domains of applications, Sea-state current interactions for Safe Navigation, 3D currents and vertical motion for Sustainable Fisheries, Surface Lagrangian drift for a Clean Ocean, High Resolution wave and current model assessment for a Productive Ocean
Latest news
WOC team at the ESA Living Planet Symposium
Published on 8 april 2022
World Ocean Circulation User Consultation Meeting
Published on 18 march 2022
WOC results presented at the Ocean Science Cluster Collocation meeting
Published on 3 december 2021
WOC partners has significantly contributed to the Ocean Science Cluster Collocation meeting held beginning December 2021. WOC main achievement have been presented as our science leader (Fabrice Collard, OceanDataLab) with the help of Daniele Ciani (CNR) of were co-chairmen of the "Upper-Ocean Dynamics" session
Delivery of first version of WOC products
Published on 15 august 2021
The first version of the WOC products have been delivered.
The project has now started !
Published on 19 august 2020
ESA World Ocean Circulation project has formally been started, with the kick-off virtual meeting held in june 2020.