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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