Oceanography is a very complex science.
Its field study, the knowledge of the oceans and the seas and their physical and
biological characteristics, is fundamental to comprehend many oceanographic and
ecological aspects that directly influence the human life and the planet health.
From micro-scale, like coastal processes, to macro-scale, like Global Change, the
oceans, the seas and the marine life, play the main role to maintain the earth
equilibrium, both from a physical and a chemical point of view (e.g. carbon cycle and
water masses dynamic)....
Chemical Reference Materials: Setting the Standards for Ocean Science is
part of an evolving body of work being conducted by scientists and research
sponsors interested in ensuring the quality control of oceanographic
data. Chemical data collected during ongoing and future global
oceanographic studies and time-series efforts must be comparable over
time and among laboratories.
Satellite altimetry was developed in the 1960s soon after
the flight of artificial satellites became a reality. From the
vantage point in space, a radar altimeter is able to measure
the shape of the sea surface globally and frequently. Such
measurements have a wide range of applications to oceanography,
geodesy, and geophysics. The results are often revolutionary.
For example, in oceanography; it takes a ship weeks
or months to cross the ocean making measurements while
the ocean is constantly changing its circulation, temperature,
In this paper the spline approximation was applied to the empirical vertical profiles of oceanographic parameters such as temperature, salinity or density to obtain a more precise and reliable result of interpolation. Our experiments with the case of observed temperature profiles in Eastern Sea show that the cubic polynomial spline method has a higher reliability and precision in a comparison with the linear interpolation and other traditional methods. The method was realized as a subroutine in our programs for oceanographic data management and manipulation.