Currents Speed

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Currents Speed

Layer Info
Category	Management
Sub-category	Environmental conditions

Description

Average current speed in meters per second at the sea surface.

MSP Challenge

This layer represents an anual average of the values of the current's speed. It is a static layer and adds no pressure on the ecosystem.

Return to environmental conditions.

In this tab you can see the information that applies concretely to the North Sea edition of the MSP Challenge.

Types

• < 0.03 m/s
• 0.03 - 0.05 m/s
• 0.05 - 0.08 m/s
• 0.08 - 0.10 m/s
• 0.10 - 0.13 m/s
• > 0.13 m/s

Metadata

Data Source

Copernicus Marine Service

Original Title

Atlantic- European North West Shelf- Ocean Physics Reanalysis.

(Product ID: GLOBAL_REANALYSIS_PHY_001_031)

Description

"You can find here the CMEMS Global Ocean Ensemble Reanalysis product at ¼ degree resolution : monthly means of Temperature, Salinity, Currents and Ice variables for 75 vertical levels, starting from 1993 onward. Global ocean reanalyses are homogeneous 3D gridded descriptions of the physical state of the ocean covering several decades, produced with a numerical ocean model constrained with data assimilation of satellite and in situ observations. These reanalyses are built to be as close as possible to the observations (i.e. realistic) and in agreement with the model physics The multi-model ensemble approach allows uncertainties or error bars in the ocean state to be estimated. The ensemble mean may even provide for certain regions and/or periods a more reliable estimate than any individual reanalysis product. The four reanalyses, used to create the ensemble, covering “altimetric era” period (starting from 1st of January 1993) during which altimeter altimetry data observations are available: * GLORYS2V4 from Mercator Ocean (Fr); * ORAS5 from ECMWF; * GloSea5 from Met Office (UK); * and C-GLORSv7 from CMCC (It); These four products provided four different time series of global ocean simulations 3D monthly estimates. All numerical products available for users are monthly or daily mean averages describing the ocean. DOI (product) : https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00024" Retrieved from Copernicus Marine Service on 2022-02-08.

Creation Date

2017-10

Methodology

Clipped to the area of interest and reprojected to Lambert's Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035) projection.

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea edition at the moment.

Western Baltic Sea

Types

• < 0,01m/s
• 0,01 m/s
• 0,05 m/s
• 0,08 m/s
• 0,12 m/s
• > 0,12 m/s

Metadata

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region edition at the moment.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Adriatic Sea edition at the moment.

Not applicable.

This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.