Products
This section presents the datasets produced by WOC project. They consist in 2D/3D upper layer ocean currents (Type=Products) and User oriented added value products (Type=Added value) .
A first version of WOC datasets covering a period of one year are now available. They can be accessed on our ftp server by filling in the following very short access form. URL, login and password are displayed once the form is completed.
The currently available products are listed in the tables below:
Theme 1 : Sea-state current interactions for Safe Navigation
Product | Identifier | Description | Documents |
Cross-seas indexes | |||
Surface current sources ranking | |||
Location of dangerous seas | |||
Wind stress vector | WOC-L4-SE-ERAstar-H | Hourly stress equivalent wind and wind stress components at 10-m from ERA*, which consists of ECMWF ERA5 output, converted to U10S and stress, and then corrected using several scatterometer data sources | |
Surface current from Sentinel-1 doppler | WOC-L2P-CUReul-S1A-OSC_RVL | Sentinel-1 IW Ocean Surface Current Radial Velocity product in Agulhas current | |
Agulhas gridded surface current |
Theme 2 : 3D currents and vertical motion for Sustainable Fisheries
Product | Identifier | Description | Documents |
Daily 2D Ocean Currents | WOC-L4-CUR-NATL2D_REP-1D | North Atlantic Merged SSH-SST Surface Currents (NATL2D), surface current product combining altimeter-derived geostrophic currents and satellite L4 SST | |
Daily 3D Ocean Currents | WOC-L4-CUR-NATL3D_REP-1D | North Atlantic data-driven 3D Currents and Tracers (NATL3D), data-driven reconstruction of the 3D Currents and Tracers in the North Atlantic obtained by applying artificial intelligence and dynamical diagnostic models to a combination of in situ and satellite data | |
Upwelling indexes | |||
Oceanic/current fronts | Fronts derived from remote sensing SST observations by SEVIRI L3C from OSISAF and microwave OI L4 SST from REMSS, over Agulhas region, (Western only for SEVIRI) North Atlantic. |
Theme 3 : Surface Lagrangian drift for a Clean Ocean
Product | Identifier | Description | Documents |
North-Atlantic total surface current | WOC-L4-CUReul-NATL-1H | North Altantic Total Surface Current, contains the total surface current including CMEMS geostrophy and Ekman+Near-Inertial currents estimated from ERA5-10m winds with an empirically-adjusted 1D - depth model (Ubelmann et al., in prep) | |
Tropical total surface current | WOC-L4-CUReul-TATL-1H | Tropical Altantic Total Surface Current, contains the total surface current including CMEMS geostrophy and Ekman+Near-Inertial currents estimated from ERA5-10m winds with an empirically-adjusted 1D - depth model (Ubelmann et al., in prep) | |
Predicted oil spill transport in the Arctic | WOC-L4-CURlag-NATL_OIL_SPILL_DRIFT_1H_CONT | North Atlantic 2D horizontal drift of continuous Oil spill, contains the positions of virtual particles released starting on 10/09/2011 and re-released every 3h. Simulations are done at 0 and 15m depth representing the trajectories of oil in the North Atlantic | |
WOC-L4-CURlag-NATL_OIL_SPILL_DRIFT_1H_INST | North Atlantic 2D horizontal drift of Oil, contains the positions of virtual particles released on 10/09/2011 at 0 and 15m depth representing the trajectories of oil in the North Atlantic | ||
Predicted Sargassum transport in the Tropical Atlantic | WOC-L4-CURlag-TATL_SARGASSUM_DRIFT_1H_MESH | Tropical Atlantic 2D horizontal drift of Sargassum, contains the positions of virtual particles released on a regular grid (mesh) at 0 and 15m depth | |
WOC-L4-CURlag-TATL_SARGASSUM_DRIFT_1H_DRIFTERS | Tropical Atlantic 2D horizontal drift of Sargassum, contains the positions of virtual particles released following the Miron et al (2020) field study at locations d1 and d2 at 0 and 15m depth representing the trajectories of Sargassum in the Tropical Atlantic | ||
Stokes drift estimation |
Theme 4 : High Resolution wave and current model assessment for a Productive Ocean
Product | Identifier | Description | Documents |
Peaks-over-threshold (POT) and generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) | |||
Sentinel-1 doppler derived current in coastal zone | |||