GOSUD

Ocean surface is the location of strong exchanges with the atmosphere but also with ice and continents. Ship based underway measurements can make a significant contribution to the observation of this very active layer if the quality of the datasets produced is in accordance with current research standards.

GOSUD aims at assembling in-situ observations of the world ocean surface collected by a variety of ships and at distributing quality controlled datasets.  At present time the variables considered by GOSUD are temperature and salinity.

GOSUD data are provided by volunteer contributors who are willing to build freely accessible global datasets, promote standard methodologies and agree on a common data policy.

The observations are collected from different categories of platforms such as research vessels, merchant ships but also sailing ships or cruise vessels.

Whenever possible, data or data subsets are transmitted in real time.