A Mediterranean drifter dataset

Ribotti, Alberto; Bussani, Antonio; Menna, Milena; Satta, Andrea; Sorgente, Roberto; Cucco, Andrea; Gerin, Riccardo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4651-2023

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4651-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4651-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Data description paper

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19 Oct 2023

Data description paper |

| 19 Oct 2023

A Mediterranean drifter dataset

Alberto Ribotti, Antonio Bussani, Milena Menna, Andrea Satta, Roberto Sorgente, Andrea Cucco, and Riccardo Gerin

Data sets

A new released Mediterranean drifters’ dataset Ribotti Alberto, Bussani Antonio, Menna Milena, Satta Andrea, Sorgente Roberto, Cucco Andrea, and Gerin Riccardo https://doi.org/10.17882/90537

Model code and software

Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer NASA https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

Short summary

Over 100 experiments were realized between 1998 and 2022 in the Mediterranean Sea using surface coastal and offshore Lagrangian drifters. Raw data were initially unified and pre-processed. Then, the integrity of the received data packages was checked and incomplete ones were discarded. Deployment information was retrieved and integrated into the PostgreSQL database. Data were interpolated at defined time intervals, providing a dataset of 158 trajectories, available in different formats.