Hourly Data via GDP ERDDAP
Hourly Data via NOAA NCEI
Hourly Data via Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Alternative ways of accessing earlier dataset version/releases:
Data Resource:
When using this dataset in your studies or publications, please use the following citation:
Elipot, Shane; Sykulski, Adam; Lumpkin, Rick; Centurioni, Luca; Pazos, Mayra (2022). Hourly location, current velocity, and temperature collected from Global Drifter Program drifters world-wide.[indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/x46c-3620. Accessed [date].
Additionally, we would be very grateful if you could cite the papers describing how the dataset were derived. If you use the dataset of position and velocity, please cite:
And if you use the dataset of sea surface temperature, please cite:
Release notes for version 2.01, September 2023:
Release notes for earlier versions can be found here.