Argosweb Metoc

Visualize one year of Argos tracks with contextual environmental data

Introducing new Argos Web oceanographic & meteorological parameters mapping together with Argos tracks

Make a link with your animal’s behavior and its physical & biochemical environment
Benefit from CLS’ 20 years of experience in satellite oceanographic data processing
Be connected to the highest quality ocean & atmospheric models data servers in the world

40 days Polar Bear with Ice Cover.
Courtesy of A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution and Russian Arctic National Park

Elephant seal track and primary production.
Courtesy of Clive Mc Mahon, IMOS Animal Tagging at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and Christophe Guinet, CEBC, MUR 7372 CNRS-ULR and SNO-MEMO

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Synchronize the environmental parameters together with your Argos tracks
Animate the movement of your animal
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A drifting buoy is following a surface current vein around an oceanographic anticyclonic eddy (maps of sea level anomaly: colour and surface current: arrows)

A turtle starts swimming northwards using the surface current towards a rich area of primary productivity (in yellow)

A whale is entering an area of high productivity

Data available

Sea surface temperature
Phytoplankton
Primary productivity
Surface current
Surface wind
Clouds
Ice Cover
Air Temperature (10m)
Sea Level Anomaly

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The track of a raptor migrating from Middle-East to North, together with air temperature and wind. You can synchronize your track with the temperature and wind maps, courtesy of Prof. Bernd Meyburg

Video tutorial and presentation of service

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