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US GLOBEC Data Management

US GLOBEC Modules Georges Bank Northeast Pacific Southern Ocean

Program Elements Distributed investigators Laboratory and field work Modeling efforts Retrospective analyses Synthesis efforts

Successful Data Management Data acquisition Quality control Data storage design Data retrieval Accessibility policy Data archiving

Data Retrieval Web-based – Internet Explorer, Netscape Distributed data sources US JGOFS data management software Data directory

Data Directory

Georges Bank Data Objects 120 cruises; 103 event logs, 115 cruise reports (51 on-line) ADCP, alongtrack, AVHRR images, CTD, hydrography, Gulf Stream rings, biology (counts), meteorology, drifter tracks and movies, chlorophyll, models, VPR

Southern Ocean Data Objects 10 cruises; 7 event logs, 2 cruise reports on-line Ice core and water column bacteria studies; bird studies; BIOMAPERII; chlorophyll, irradiance and productivity studies; CTD; nutrient; sea ice; whale sonobuoy; acoustic backscattering; ADCP

Northeast Pacific Data Objects 28 event logs on-line CTD and SST images

Data Accessibility CTD Data from MOCNESS View CTD MOCNESS data object View next level – MOC1 selected View next level – AL9906 selected View next level – tow 4 selected Choose Plotting and Other Options Select plot of temperature vs depth Resulting gif image generated

Data Manipulation Simple X-Y plotting Listing Downloading as ASCII files, tar, compressed, zipped files, or Matlab compatible files

Software Tools Matlab Kriging (EasyKrig) GeoZui3D: System for Rapid Interaction with 3D Data Spaces (BMP image)

Data Archiving Data sent to NODC        68 CTD records        17 Drifter records          6 Kimmerer records          5 Bottle Go-Glo records Like all efforts, this is a resource limited project

Summary Continue to add on-line data Work on meta-data records for inclusion in databases (DIFs) Finalize and archive data Software development Data retrieval Data display

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