Scientific Data and Products

• Argo Information Centre,
• Canadian Products,
• Canadian Tracked Argo Data,
• Global Information

Argo is an international project and a major component of the oceans observing system. Approximately 3000 profiling floats will be deployed around the world. Once at sea, the float sinks to a preprogrammed target depth of 2000 meters for a preprogrammed period of time. It then floats to the surface, taking temperature and salinity values during its ascent at set depths. At the surface, the float drifts along for a day or two and transmits the data to a satellite run by Service Argos which then determines the position of the float. Service Argos sends the data to various data centers such as ISDM.

DFO is involved in the regulation of aquatic products of biotechnology. With the development of new living aquatic organism products of biotechnology, by companies around the world and in Canada, is the need to assess their environmental and human health safety.

• Climate Indices,
• Hydrographic data,
• Meteorological Data,
• Remote Sensing,
• Sea Levels

Biological, chemical and physical information on the northwestern Atlantic Ocean gathered through the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program. AZMP provides an ever-expanding perspective on seasonal, annual and longer-term changes in ocean conditions including sea levels, climate and weather

• Bacterioplankton,
• CTD,
• Nutrients,
• Phytoplankton,
• Zooplankton

A marine embayment encircled by the municipality of Halifax region. In 1991, a time series was established to record the weekly state of the plankton ecosystem in this basin. The strategy of regular and perpetual sampling provides data to assess environmental variability at the weekly, monthly, seasonal, annual and decadal time scales

A repository for biological and chemical marine environmental sample measurements. Scientific Research Missions originating from the various DFO Research Institutions are the primary sources of information in the holdings. To access the database you are required to register for a username and password.

Daily values of sea surface temperature and salinity are observed at the current and old lighthouses around the coast of British Columbia.

• Buoy data last 24 hours,
• Buoy Location Details

Sixteen offshore weather buoys maintained by Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada in association with Axys, a private company in Sidney, B.C. measure general weather information in the marine area around British Columbia and report their data to Environment Canada via satellite.

CLIVAR is an international research programme addressing many issues of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. It seeks to better understand and predict our climate in order to take precautions and to reduce impacts of climate variability and change on our planet.