CORA dataset

CORA (standing for Coriolis Ocean database ReAnalysis) is a global oceanographic temperature and salinity dataset produced and maintained by the French institute IFREMER.

This in-situ dataset produced by the French institute Ifremer in the framework of the European project MyOcean and French project CORIOLIS is a picture of the content of the operational oceanographic database CORIOLIS.

CORA[1] is free of access and can be download via CORIOLIS website[2] in netCDF file format.

In addition data in CORA are retrieved from Coriolis database where each profile is visually checked by specialist operators if suspicious.

The CORA dataset is designed for operational oceanography, so most global real time monitoring networks are plugged into this database.