Greenland / Indonesia / France / Japan / United States / Brazil / China / India / Australia / / /
Event
Environmental Issue / Natural Disaster / /
Facility
NOAA National Data Buoy Center / Global Drifter Program Data Assembly Center / French Research Institute / National Climatic Data Center / University of Hawaii / NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
freshwater systems / transportation / observational networks / planetary energy imbalance / satellite imagery / weather applications / naval and other applications / satellite communications / greenhouse gas / sea level network / satellite measurements / infrared satellite sensors / energy imbalance / energy / greenhouse gas emissions / satellite altimetry / observational infrastructure / data assimilation model products / technology challenge / satellite retrievals / real-time data / coastal ocean applications / satellite altimeters / marine hazard warning systems / /
NaturalFeature
Atmosphere Ocean / Melting sea / Global sea / Pacific Ocean / Ocean Observations Ocean / Indian Ocean / September sea / Arctic sea / Rising sea / /
OperatingSystem
GCOS / /
Organization
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea / NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center / National Science Foundation / Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / Climate Observation Division / National Climatic Data Center / NOAA National Climatic Data Center / Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology / Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / United Nations / University of Hawaii / World Meteorological Organization / NOAA National Data Buoy Center / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / European Union / University of Hawaii Sea Level Center / NOAA Climate Observation Division / /
Person
Woods Hole / Mark Merrifield / /
Position
drifter / Global Drifter / Governor / leader / Pilot Research Moored Array / /
Introduction The ocean, which covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, exerts profound influence on the Earth’s climate system by moderating and modulating climate variability and altering the rate of long-term cli