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Marine Data Services at National Oceanographic Data Centre-India

Open Access
|May 2018

Figures & Tables

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Figure 1

Types of data sets archived and served at INCOIS.

Table 1

List of various data holdings archived at INCOIS for dissemination to end users.

Type of DataParameters
In situ
  • Temperature and salinity

  • Air pressure

  • air temperature

  • wind speed and direction

  • water temperature

  • wave height and direction

  • current speed and direction

  • Wave parameters

  • SST and Air Temperature

  • Atmospheric Pressure

  • Sea Surface Currents

  • Sea Level

  • Pollution monitoring along the coast.

Remote Sensing
  • Sea surface temperature

  • Chlorophyll

  • Wave height

  • Sea level

  • Rainfall

  • Wind speed and Wind vector

Ocean Models
  • Simple Oceanographic Data Assimilation (SODA)

  • Joint Environmental Data Analysis Centre (JEDA)

  • National Centre for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

  • CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP).

  • WW3 analysis products.

  • various parameters from MOM and ROMS models.

  • Ocean currents

  • Temperature and salinity

  • Depth of 20 deg Isotherm

  • Mixed Layer Depth

  • Isothermal Layer Depth

  • Rainfall

  • Wave parameters

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Figure 2

Ocean Data and Information System at INCOIS for dissemination of in situ data (Shesu et al., 2013).

Table 3

Products available on INCOIS Live Access Server (las.incois.gov.in).

ProductAvailability Period
Objectively Analyzed Argo (10 days & Monthly)Jan 2002–Till date
AMSRE (3 day & monthly)June 2002–Till date
NOAA High resolution SSTSep 1981–Till date
NOAA SST (INCOIS ground station)2008–Till date
WHOI Air – Sea FluxesJan 1985–Jul 2010
OCEAN Analysis (MOM –GODAS)Jan 2003–Jun 2011
Ocean Color Monitor (OCM1)Jan 2003–Apr 2006
QuikScat Wind productsAug 1999–Nov 2009
TMI (3 day and monthly)Jan 1998–Till date
ASCAT wind productsNovember 2008–Till date
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Figure 3

Data products on INCOIS Live Access Server (a) Temperature (gridded) and (b) Ocean Analysis (MOM-GODAS) derived MLD.

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Figure 4

In situ data and data products as off line products from INCOIS.

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Figure 5

Distribution of the different types of requests processed since 2007.

Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 20, 2017
Accepted on: Apr 24, 2018
Published on: May 10, 2018
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2018 E. Pattabhi Rama Rao, T. V. S Udaya Bhaskar, R. Venkat Seshu, N. Srinivasa Rao, K. Suprit, G. Geetha, published by Ubiquity Press
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