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Data Management Workshop
Brest (France)
                                        3-4-5 Octobre
                                  

 


Data centers contributing to ARGO Products
by Fabienne Gaillard

 

Should the centers distribute products ?
    1. Is it usefull ?
    2. Is it necessary ?
    3. Is it dangerous ?

If answer to 1 or 2 is yes:

 

What ?
What type of products ?
What time scales ?
What are the users ?

 
How?

 

Types of products

Dataviewers:
Time series for a platform (T or S (z, t))
Trajectories
Statistics (number of floats days per deg. Square)
...
Analyzed fields
3D gridded data (Temperature, salinity)
2D gridded data: mixed layer depth
...
Sensor drift estimates
Comparisons
Define reference points,
Define reference sections
Other type of reference quantity (heat fluxes at a given latitude, transports,
New climatologies