The Global Drifter Program

Operation partners: see links on this page.

Drifter manufacturers:

• Clearwater Oceanographic Instruments
• Marlin Yug
• Metocean
• Pacific Gyre
• Technocean

Companies, institutions and programs:

• CLS America
• WMO-IOC Data Buoy Cooperation Panel
• SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography
• NOAA's Office of Climate Observations
• CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability)

Data centers, servers and archives:

• Shipboard Environmental (data) Aquisition System
• MEDS Data Archive
• WOCE Data Assembly Centers
• Altimeter & GTS NRT Data

Educational:

• UM's Ocean Surface Currents website
• NOAA's Adopt a Drifter program
• Ocean Atlas of Hawaii
• Project NOPP drifters
• Year of the Ocean Drifter Tracks
• Chasing the Buoys (OSU Dept. of Marine Education)
• Athena Project: Tracking Drifter Buoys
• Ocean Teacher
• Nasa - Ocean Currents

Miscellaneous:

• Meteo-France Buoy QC Tools
• Research Ship Schedules
• Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction