U.S.A. TCODE Report

October 17, 2004

Prepared by Tom Royer and Bernard Megrey

I. Key Institutions/Key Persons

National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center

http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/

Bern Megrey

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/

Allen Macklin

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

http://www.uaf.edu/

Seth Danielson

Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring (EXXON VALDEZ Oil Spill Trustees Council)

http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/gem/

Phil Mundy

North Pacific Research Board (NPRB)

http://www.nprb.org

Clarence Pautzke

Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS)

http://www.aoos.org

Molly McCammon

U.S. GLOBEC, Northeast Pacific Program

http://globec.oce.orst.edu/groups/nep/

Hal Batchelder

Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory

http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

Frank Schwing

OCEANS.US

http://ocean.us/

Lee Danzler

US Arctic Research Commission

http://www.arctic.gov/

George Newton

2. Existing Data Sets

Agency	Division	Data Description	URL
NOAA	National Marine Fisheries	Fisheries data including catch statistics	http://nmfs.noaa.gov/
	National Climate Data Center (NCDC)	Temperature, precipitation, humidity, barometric pressure	http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
	Coordinated Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (COADS)	Gridded sea surface temperature and salinity, hydrographic profiles	http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/coads/
	National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)	Sea surface temperature, air temperature, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, and sea state	http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
	National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)	Gridded historical and forecast atmospheric conditions	http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/
	Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem	Comprehensive ocean and atmospheric data sets for the Bering Sea	http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov/
	National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)	Global hydrographic station data; temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrient profiles.	http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
NASA	Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) - SeaWIFS	Sea surface temperature and color	http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html
	Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) TOPEX/Poisden	Sea surface altimetry	http://nereids.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ssh.cgi?show=jason1
	Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) –NSCAT/Quikscat	Scatterometer data that yields daily sea surface winds on a global grid	http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/
ARGO	ARGO Floats	Global profiling float data; upper layer temperature and salinity profiles and velocity.	http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/ http://www.aargo.net/
GLOBEC	GLOBal Ecosystem Program	Interdisciplinary data sets from GLOBEC study regions	http:/www.globec.org
UAF	Geographical Information Network	Global surface maps	http://www.gina.alaska.edu/

3. Technical Methodologies

ARGO http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/

Coherent Radar (CODAR) http://www.ims.uaf.edu:8000/salmon/CODAR/CODAR.html

Sea Surface winds (Quikscat) http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/

Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) Ferrybox Program (see http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/gem/ )

4. Ongoing Data Management Programs

National Oceanographic Data Center http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

OCEAN.US DMAC http://dmac.ocean.us/dacsc/imp_plan.jsp

National/regional conferences and workshops on marine data management, publications US Coastal Observing System regional workshops, Alaska, California, Oregon-Washington are in the planning phases for their field programs and data management.

Several marine observing/monitoring programs in Alaska are coordinating their data management and archiving activities. These include GEM (EVOS), NPRB, AOOS, and the Alaska-Yukon-Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative (AYK SSI).

5. Real-time data sources

NDBC	Sea surface meteorological conditions, sea surface temperature, sea state and sometimes salinity.	http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
NASA	Sea surface temperature, color and altimetry	http://www.nasa.gov
Coastal Ocean Dynamic Application Radar (CODAR)	Sea surface currents and waves	http://www.ims.uaf.edu:8000/salmon/CODAR/CODAR.html
NOAA	Satellite AVHRR data, and tide gauges	http://www.noaa.gov
AOOS	Alaska Observations	http://www.aoos.org
PWSOOS	Biology, meteorology and physical oceanography in Prince William Sound	http://www.pwsoos.org/
NCEP	Gridded meteorological data.	http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/
Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem	Climate indices, atmospheric and oceanographic conditions, biology and fisheries	http://www.beringclimate.noaa.gov/
Sea-Air-Land Modeling and Observing Network	Sea surface temperatures, ocean color, oceanographic and modeling data.	http://www.ims.uaf.edu:8000/salmon/

6. Data visualization and analysis

FERRET http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/ - Software for data and data displays for the North Pacific

Ocean Data View http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/GEO/ODV/ - Software for the display of global hydrographic data.

7. Data exchange policies

National Science Foundation policy on data submission and handling is generally followed by all agencies except fisheries.

http://www.geo.nsf.gov/ear/EAR_data_policy_204.doc