Ship Of Opportunity Programme (SOOP) Implementation Panel

The Ship of Opportunity Programme (SOOP) is an international and operational program directed primarily towards the continued operational maintenance and co-ordination of the ship of opportunity network. Observations made are primarily temperature from XBTs but temperature and other data types from instruments such as thermosalinographs, XCTD, CTD, ADCP, pCO2 and phytoplankton counters are also measured.

Data and products

• Maps
  There are two maps. In the first, the colored rectangles are those with at least one observation in the month.  The second map is for the previous 12 months and colours the areas according to the number of months in which there is at least one reported profile.

Resources

• WMO-IOC Ship Of Opportunity Programme (SOOP)