Scientific Data and Products

Reports including physical oceanographic inventories of profiles, drifting buoys, waves, tides and water levels collected in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) area annually. Link to official NAFO site.

The concept of OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System) was first developed at a conference sponsored by the Census of Marine Life (CoML) in 1997. At the time, a comprehensive system for the retrieval of ocean biological data did not exist. Not long after the initial meeting, OBIS was established as a project of the Census of Marine Life to help facilitate global enfranchisement of data within the scientific community.

The Ocean Monitoring Workstation processes all beam modes of RADARSAT satellite images to extract information from the sea surface.

• Cruise Catalogue,
• Real-time Ocean Profile Data

Physical, chemical and biological profiles of oceanographic data from several National and International programmes.

Ocean profile data collected by MLI can be accessed here. The coverage consists mostly (but is not restricted to) of the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence.

• Coastal Time Series (CTS),
• Hydrographic (Climate),
• Ocean Colour Database (OCDB),
• Ocean Data Inventory (ODI),
• Sea-surface Temperature (SST)

Access to a number of databases maintained by Ocean Sciences at the Bedford Institute. The databases include temperature-salinity profiles for the North West Atlantic, sea-surface temperature from satellite, monthly statistics of ocean currents and other moored instruments, and daily temperature observations from coastal thermographs.

Oceanographic data collected at 19 fixed stations throughout the St. Lawrence since 1993 via the Gulf of St. Lawrence Thermograph Network.

A time series of sea-surface temperature images describing the state of the Northwest Atlantic used to study the interrelation between fisheries and ecosystem functions.