Global Drifter Program - 6 Hour Interpolated QC Drifter Data

Sea Surface Temperature Surface Currents

Global Drifter Program 6-hourly drifting buoy collection. Quality control krigged (interpolation method) data. 6-Hour Drifter data product exists from 1979 to present, well suited for observing larger-scale oceanic processes. NOAA-Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) data from a local source. The six-hourly QC dataset is updated on a quarterly basis, i.e. every 3 months, in delayed mode. Please reference the acknowledgment attribute to cite the dataset's DOI.

Data and resources

Data Subset Form

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Additional information

Temporal extent	1979-02-15 – 2025-06-18
Date (creation)	2026-03-31
Date (issued)	2026-03-31
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) This study used data collected and made freely available by the NOAA Global Drifter Program (https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/) accessed from https://erddap.aoml.noaa.gov/gdp/erddap/index.html
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show