Welcome to the Centre de Météorologie Marine

The Centre de Météorologie Marine (CMM) of Météo-France is a department of the Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM). A description page of the CMM is under construction.

 The following lines give a list of services provided by the CMM through Internet to help Meteorologists and Oceanographers concerned by data buoys in their work. Theses actions are mainly carried out in the frame of the Data Cooperation Panel (DBCP) of WMO and IOC.

Buoy Data Quality Control

Statistics provided by various Centres are available through 2 different ways:
• Monthly files which can be donwloaded through anonymous FTP ;
• A query form which allows you to get statistics for a parameter provided by specific buoys.

Other tools such as timeseries dataplot are also available.

Buoy Info Data Bank

Informations and pictures on data buoys should be available here. All relevant materials are welcomed. Please, send a mail to pierre.blouch@meteo.fr. At present, a few pictures are already available.

DBCP Action Groups Homepages

At present, the CMM is maintaining the WWW homepages of :
• The European Group on Ocean Stations (EGOS) ;
• The International Buoy Programme for the Indian Ocean (IBPIO).

Data Availability Index Maps

Compressed Postscript files are available here through anonymous FTP on a monthly basis. These maps show the distribution of surface meteorological observations over the oceans and the buoys share in it. Some explanations and examples can be get from the IBPIO pages.

Buoys location

A query form allows you to enter any location in the World. A local map around this location will be computed by the Xerox PARC server and displayed on your screen.