Data Notes
The information contained here is of interest to anyone using the U.S.
GLOBEC Georges Bank on-line data system. It contains problem reports,
time-critical data notes and other transient information about the
on-line data. It should be checked periodically for new items.
May 23, 1997
Trouble accessing satellite images
The computer system that houses the satellite images is moving from NOAA
to GSO. Images should be available as soon as the move is complete.
April 29, 1997
Trouble accessing satellite images
There is trouble accessing the satellite image data server. I will
correct the problem as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Fixed: April 30, 1997
March 5, 1997
New "options server" in use
As of today, the globec system will handle most of the "Other options"
tasks when dealing with data accessed from the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
data server. Previously, these tasks (such as making x-y plots, or
formatting data for use my Matlab) were done by puddle. The new
server is a faster processor, so performance should improve.
February 4, 1997
NMFS/Woods Hole CTD data served with corrupted data lines
Several CTD data sets served from the NMFS/Woods Hole data server appear
with corrupted data lines. These show up as either missing values, or
what look like multiple data lines concatenated together. We are
looking into this problem and will correct it as soon as possible.
Update: This problem was fixed as of February 19, 1997 when the
jgof.wh.whoi.edu server took over for the whsun2 server.
November 20, 1996
NMFS/Woods Hole data temporarily unavailable
The NMFS/Woods Hole data server is moving to another platform so their
data are temporarily unavailable. [As of ~1500 the data are available.]
01/16/1996
Georges Bank Central Server unavailable due to upgrades
The U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank central data server and Web site will
be unavailabe Thursday, January 25, 1996 and again in early February
in order to upgrade its operating system to Solaris 2.5 and hardware
(more memory and disk space.) Please contact the Program Office if these scheduled times are inconvienient.
01/09/1996
Correction to wind speed units in the thesaurus(Bob Groman)
The thesaurus incorrectly listed the units for various wind
speeds as knots. The units should have been in meters per second.
The thesaurus has been corrected as of today.
09/07/1995
The defexec method (Bob Groman)
The defexec method is very flexible in that it can be used both to
execute scripts and programs as well as open up lower level
data files just like the def method can do. It uses the presence of
double quotes ("...") around data values to suppress creating a hypertext link
to the next level. Blanks can appear within the text enclosed within
the double quotes. However, if you do want to create a link (and
therefore do not use the double quotes) do not include any
blank spaces in the text string. If you do, the link may not work.
This is because a selection at the next level is being made and
selection does not handle blanks. As a work-around, replace the spaces
with underlines.
09/01/1995
Hydrographic data contour plots (David Mountain)
A problem has been identified with some of the contour plots of
hydrographic data in the Broad Scale cruise reports. For plots
of bottom values, to be considered a bottom value the deepest
observation in a cast had to be within 10m of the bottom where
the depth was < 100m and within 25m where > 100m. If not, the
station was not included in the contouring. The problem is that
all station locations were posted on the plots, whether a bottom
value existed or not. The deep stations off the bank (7, 16, and
29) do not have bottom values, are not included in the
contouring, but their locations are posted. If they were
included, the southern boundary of the Bank would be ringed by
higher temperature, salinity and density contours.
This will be corrected in future plotting - by posting only those
stations with bottom values.
Thanks to Bob Houghton for recognizing the problem.