In Situ remote portal

 In Situ Observing System
    - Float activities within Mersea
    - Timeseries activities
    - Vessels
    - Gliders
.Data Management
    - Argo
    - Gosud
    - OceanSITES
    - ENACT/ENSEMBLES
    - Quality Control
.Partners Duties

Data Management for In-Situ data

Mersea Is setting up a portal for in-situ data extending Coriolis to Mersea needs . It's objective  is to manage and deliver the ocean in-situ data necessary both for assimilation and validation purposes of MERSEA in an integrated, quality-controlled, and uniform fashion.

This includes not only the data collected specifically by MERSEA observing efforts, but also data available from international programmes. The data management task will be divided in three main activities which will have different schedules:

• Retrieve available data relevant to MERSEA needs (interfacing with ARGO program, GTSPP, DBCP, SOOP, Gosud, Ocean Timeseries, Carbo-Oceans…) and distribute them through a unique Data Assembling Centre connected the MERSEA Information Management network (M7 module).
  

• Process the data for the observing systems deployed within MERSEA (ARGO Floats, Timeseries, Research Vessels, and gliders) and distribute them on the GTS. The data will be processed according to the international agreed procedures of the relevant programs.
  

• Generate products from real time in-situ data for model validation purposes.
  

• To process data acquired at sea by MERSEA observing system, the project will rely on the existing European real-time data centres, i.e. Ifremer/CORIOLIS for Floats and Research Vessels, the SOC Animate data centre for time-series, the MFSTEP data management structure for the Mediterranean network. Glider data processing will be handled by one of these centres.

Since the 25th of March 2005 , all new in-situ measurements are distributed in daily ftp files : ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/coriolis/mersea
About 1000 profiles and 20 000 quality controlled  measurements are distributed each day . The real time quality control procedure have been documented .  The distribution directory contains one file per day, per type of data, per ocean. Only data younger than 90 days are included in this dataset. The last 60 days of data are available on Mersea FTP site.  click for more