As an Oceanography, one key parameter that need to get right is the bathymetry. Bathymetry is the science of determining the topography of the seafloor. Bathymetry data is used to generate navigational charts, seafloor profile, biological oceanography, beach erosion, sea-level rise, etc. There prenty of bathymetry data and one of the them is the GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data.
The General bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) consists of an international group of experts in ocean mapping.
The Global Forecasting System (GFS) atmospheric model is a dataset from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). In this database, wind is stored as velocity vector components (U: eastward_wind and V: northward_wind) at 10 m above the Earth’s surface. The resolution of the data is 0.5 degrees, approximately 50 km. Wind velocities have been registered six times per day (00:00 – 03:00 – 06:00 – 09:00 – 12:00 – 15:00 – 18:00 – 21:00 (UTC)), since 6th May 2011 and is updated daily.
Climatic change in the last few decades has had a widespread impact on both natural and human systems, observable on all continents. Ecological and environmental models using climatic data often rely on gridded data, such as WorldClim.
WorldClim is a set of global climate layers (gridded climate data in GeoTiff format) that can be used for mapping and spatial modeling. WordlClim version 2 contains average monthly climatic gridded data for the period 1970-2000 with different spatial resolutions, from 30 seconds (~1 km2) to 10 minutes (~340 km2).
