Scientific Data and Products

Oceanographic information and data collected and aggregated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Data is collected through several national and international programs. Data is managed by the management policy for scientific data.

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Marine Ecosystem Observatory
Pacific Region

Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment Canada jointly maintain a network of weather buoys in the coastal and offshore waters of British Columbia. Values of wind speed and direction, air pressure and temperature, and wave height at the buoy locations, reported hourly via the GEOS satellite, are routinely used to improve marine weather forecasting.

MetaData Catalogue Search
Geoportal

A powerful tool for the creation and cataloguing of geospatial metadata following many standards and many languages. Metadata include specific pieces of information that characterize data; these can be used to catalogue data in many different ways. Essentially the MetaData answers the questions to who, what, when, where, why and how on all of our data holdings

Mingan Atlas of Currents
St. Lawrence Observatory

The charts in this Atlas show the intensity and direction of the surface currents in the Mingan Archipelago, between Île aux Perroquets and La Grande Pointe, where the tides and the freshwater outflow dominate the circulation of the surface waters.

Moorings Data
Pacific Region

Search the Institute of Ocean Sciences / Ocean Sciences Data Inventory for data from moored instrumentation. This application will return inventory information about the data records that meet the search criteria but will not return the actual data.