Ocean Database for South Atlantic

[soutobias]

Title

A database for real-time data for Brazil and South Atlantic

Summary

South Atlantic does not have a free and easily accessible database of data collected in real-time. The intention of this project is to obtain data from different data sources (universities, governments, public and private institutions) and bring them together in a single database for the scientific community and society in general. The idea of ​​this project is to expand an existing database, using data from different data sources. With these data, it is possible to carry out a validation of the meteorological and wave models available for the South Atlantic.

Personnel

Tobias Ferreira. Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center

Specific tasks

• look for new data sources for the South Atlantic.
• join these data sources with results from global models such as GFS and WRF, in addition to Hycom and WWIII
• Include this data in a visualization system for the non-oceanographic community

Datasets and infrastructure support

• buoys from Brazil (Pnboia, Simcosta), Uruguay, Argentina (EMAC), Africa; Global Drifter Program, Argo Program, Glider data, INMET weather stations, data from African countries, universities data

The problem

Throughout the South Atlantic, we do not have well-consolidated databases to obtain real-time data collected by the different data collection programs. The aim is to establish this system and create a system that can be used by the entire international community. In addition, allow the validation of global models for the South Atlantic.

Application example

The intention is to continue an existing project: https://github.com/soutobias/oceanoobsbrasil

This project is available online through the app: https://github.com/soutobias/oceanoobsbrasil_web
or http://www.oceano.live/?language=e

Existing methods

The intention is to continue an existing project: https://github.com/soutobias/oceanoobsbrasil

This project is available online through the app: https://github.com/soutobias/oceanoobsbrasil_web
or http://www.oceano.live/?language=en

[7yl4r]

Here in the US, NOAA makes heavy use of ERDDAP for this purpose. ERDDAP is FOSS and an instance can be easily be set up using the docker image. It may be worth providing a comparison to ERDDAP and other similar technologies in the project README.

[soutobias]

Thanks for your comment.

Our idea is to get data from diferent sources from south Atlantic (using web scrapping, apis, netcdf, etc), group that in a database and release it to the public in real time using an API.

We do not experience with ERDDAP. How can we compare it with our project?

[marcela-strane]

I'm interested in joining the project how can we connect?

[denisefukai]

I thought we had another round for discussion, if you guys want to continue the discussion to share our to-do list I'm happy to open a room so we wrap up the discussion...

[nilodna]

Yeah, I'm available now for another round of discussion, at least to establish where to begin and what we want to present by the end of the week

[soutobias]

I will create a canal in slack and invite some of you guys

[soutobias]

owh22_temp_proj19

[LuizaPS]

Hi! I'm Luiza, I joined the call late but I would like to participate in the project

[douglasnehme]

Awesome project. I want to participate too.

[sdiggs]

Is this the type of data that you're looking for?
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001JC001114