Temperature monthly climatology for the Iberian Peninsula region, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, at 0.2º of horizontal spatial resolution and 33 vertical levels.

Salinity monthly climatology for the Iberian Peninsula region, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, at 0.2º of horizontal spatial resolution and 33 vertical levels.

Estimation of the mean daily discharge at the mouth of the main rivers flowing into Atlantic and Bay of Biscay. The dataset has rivers from Barbate (the southermost) to Odet (the northernmost). + info: Otero et al. (2010) "Climatology and reconstruction of runoff time series in northwest Iberia: influence in the shelf buoyancy budget off Ria de Vigo", Scientia Marina 74(2), 247-266.

Cartographic viewer that displays the data of fishing discards collected by scientific observers on board commercial vessels. The units refer to the amount of fish (Kg) that is discarded per hour of fishing or by fishinng trip in the case of fixed gear.

The estimation of air-sea CO2 fluxes is largely dependent on wind speed through the gas transfer velocity parameterization. This sketch visualizes this estimation by using data obtained on board an opportunity vessel that transported Citröen cars from/to Vigo (Spain) to/from Saint Nazaire (France), from October 2002 to July 2003. You can explore the spatio-temporal variability of the CO2 flux along the route. Moreover, you can examine the differences in the estimation when a different wind speed source is selected or the algorithm employed to perform the estimation is modified. If you like this sketch or you want to learn more, please, visit and cite our published article in Biogeosciences: Otero, P., X. A. Padin, M. Ruiz-Villarreal, L. M. García-García, A. F. Ríos and F. F. Pérez. Net sea–air CO2 flux uncertainties in the Bay of Biscay based on the choice of wind speed products and gas transfer parameterizations. Biogeosciences, 10, 2993-3005, 2013.

This sketch visualizes the exposure of the Euroregion Galicia (Spain) - North Portugal coasts to potential oil spills coming from the Finisterre Traffic Separation Scheme. These navigation corridors are used by ~40,000 ships per year, and more than 30% of these vessels transport dangerous substances. Results summarize conditions during 2012 and were obtained by running 8,868 lagrangian simulations. In each simulation 2,345 virtual particles were deployed and followed during the next 96 hours. Particles were transported by sea surface currents obtained from a realistic high resolution ocean model and also dragged by the wind. The four corridors that integrate the traffic scheme and the approaching regions are shown. The number over the corridor is the total probability of reaching the coast during the first, second, third or fourth day after the spill. Circles along the coastline are the probability of arriving that specific region. Setting the mouse pointer over one corridor, you can filter the data to get a much simpler visualization.

In 2013, the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) developed a maritime data downstream service (http://playas.ieo.es) particularly focused on providing sea surface temperature (SST) at Iberian Atlantic beaches, a parameter that, although basic for the scientific community, it was certainly rather unusual in those weather forecast reports to the wider public. Thus, although the web-service enhances the visualization of SST at more than one thousand beaches, it also provides 3-day forecast of a set of other meteo-ocean variables (air temperature, wind speed and direction, wave height, period and direction, and tides).

The tide gauge of Palma de Mallorca is located in the western part of the harbour and it measures the sea level from 1997 onwards. Note that another station (PSMSL ID 1087) was recording data from 1964 to 1966 in a near location.

The tide gauge at Santander operates from 1943 onwards.

The tide gauge of Pasajes measured the sea level from 1948 to 1963.