The french contribution to GOSUD is related to:
- Data collection on merchant ships and on Research Vessels
- Data Management activities
- R & D activities
French contribution to GOSUD
Data Collection
France contributes widely to the SSS network and provide the data to the GOSUD project
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7 french research vessels acquire thermosalinograph data in a routine mode and transmit their SSS and SST data to the Coriolis data centre (Gosud GDAC) on a daily basis.
Meteorological data are also sent on a daily basis. The following research vessels have been equiped for such a data acquisition and transmission- Pourquoi Pas ? (Ifremer)
- L'atalante (Ifremer)
- Le Beautemps Beaupré (Shom)
- Le Suroît (Ifremer)
- Thalassa (Ifremer)
- Marion Dufresne (IPEV)
- L'Europe (Ifremer)
- IRD leads the ORE SSS (Sea Surface Salinity Observing Network). SSS data are collected on board 12 merchant vessels and 2 research vessels. They are checked before any transmission to the GDAC
Data Management activities
The Coriolis data centre operates the GOSUD GDAC -Global Data Assembling Data Centre-. Every day SSS data are sent to the GDAC either by direct submission or through the GTS (Global Telcommunication System).
R & D Activities
To be completed