What were the WOCE data streams?
The WOCE data system was designed around the measurement techniques that formed the field programme. Each type of data, a “data stream”, was accumulated at a Data Assembly Centre that had specialist knowledge of the particular kind of data. The data streams that made up the WOCE data system were: Hydrography (from the WOCE Hydrographic Programme or WHP, which included the One Time Survey, Repeat Hydrography and Time Series Stations). Shipboard ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, collected on hydrographic cruises) Surface Meteorology (collected on hydrographic cruises) Current Meters (from moored current meter arrays) Drifters (from the Surface Velocity Programme) Floats (neutrally buoyant subsurface floats) Profiling Floats (a particular variety of floats that collected temperature and salinity profiles) Upper Ocean Thermal (data from eXpendable BathyThermographs or XBTs) Satellite Sea Level (also known as Sea Surface Height or Altimetry) Sea Level (from tide gauges; stage 1: Fas
