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U.S. GLOBEC Data Management

Brief Update

Presented at the US GLOBEC Scientific Steering Committee

Meeting

Robert C. Groman

November 6 - 7, 2003

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Georges Bank Study Area

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Northeast Pacific

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Southern Ocean

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Data are accessed from the U.S. GLOBEC Data Server, http://globec.whoi.edu.

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The data dictionary provide links to data objects.

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Data may reside on remote servers

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Alongtrack data can be viewed

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Or plotted

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Alongtrack plot of NBP0202

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Or downloaded

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Georges Bank Data

120 Cruises in inventory118 Cruise reports printed, 2 cruise reports delinquent 56 Cruise reports on-line Data objects on-line: See web site Missing data: Zooplankton counts VPR data Acoustics data Mooring data

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Northeast Pacific/CGOA

Coastal Gulf of Alaska (CGOA)

35 Cruise reports on-line; 16 will be on-line soon; 36 to come later35 Event logs on-line 11 from CGOA - LTOP cruises [29 missing] 9 from CGOA – Haldorson Trawling cruises [8 missing] 10 from CGOA – Process/Survey cruises [5 missing] 5 from CGOA – SECM cruises (via on-line report) [10 missing] 

 

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Northeast Pacific/CCS

California Current System (CCS)

46 Cruise reports on-line; 2 later

47 Event logs on-line

36 from CCS - LTOP cruises (via on-line report)

11 from CCS – Process/Other cruises [1 missing]

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Northeast Pacific Summary

Available on-line data include CTD, SST, alongtrack, bottle, SeaSoar, nutrients, pigments, and event logs. A more detail summary of the on-line status is available from two spreadsheets provided by Hal.

Hal states “… lots of data were collected, very few are currently on-line. More dataset from the CCS are on-line than data from CGOA.”

Data soon to be added include CTD, nutrients, and zooplankton.

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Southern Ocean11 Cruises in inventory11 Cruise reports on-line11 Event logs on-line49 data objects on-line, locally or linked remotely

Ice core and water column bacteria studiesBird studiesBIOMAPERII Chlorophyll, irradiance and productivity studiesMOCNESS CTD dataNutrient dataSea ice dataWhale sonobuoy data120 kHz acoustic backscattering dataADCP data

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Southern Ocean Missing Data

IWC Whale dataCTD rosette dataMOC1/MOC10/net collection dataXCTD/XBT dataPenguin studies (exists on SO GLOBEC website)ROV dataBathymetry data (exists on SO GLOBEC website)Alongtrack data

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Data Visualization EnhancementsBetter Able to Handle:

• Acoustic backscatter data (curtain plots)• Arbitrarily spaced scalar & vector data• Axes, labels, grids, bounding boxes• Underlying bathymetry surfaces• Multiple color maps for each object• Point-and-click object identification• 3D thumbnails & list boxes for easier selection &

previewing of variables

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GeoZui3D and EZGZ

• Peter, you’re on!