11AM2002 S12-146 E-poster
DATA ONLINE SERVICE SYSTEM AT JAPAN OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER THROUGH THE INTERNET
Norio Baba
Japan Oceanographic Data Center,
5-3-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
norio-baba@kaiho.mlit.go.jp
Japan Oceanographic Data Center improved the JODC
Online Data Service System (J-DOSS) in July 2002. J-DOSS was developed in 1994 in order to provide users with data
retrieval service from the database system in JODC through the Internet with
various keywords, such as location, data type, name of research vessel etc. JODC made a big improvement for J-DOSS in
July 2002 in order to strengthen user service, for example, 3 million profiles
of serial station data from 1984 to present, and 12 million points of ocean
current data are provided from the system.
The data and related information provided from the system are gathered
from various research institutes through the International Oceanographic Data
& Information Exchange (IODE) system promoted by IOC/UNESCO.
DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION SYSTEM OF PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF NOTHWESTERN PACIFIC
BASED ON INTERNET/INTRANET
Andrew V. Golik and Vitaliy K.
Fischenko
Pacific Oceanological Institution, 43 Baltiyskaya Street, Vladivostok,
690041, Russia. duha@poi.dvo.ru
The
technique and features of development of GIS based on internet/intranet of
nothwestern Pacific and Far Eastern Seas are described. This spatial region is a primary target for
investigation at Pacific Oceanological Institute of Far Eastern branch of
Russian Academy of Science. This system
developed in the Laboratory of complex analysis of oceanological data of POI
FEB RAS and trial testing in common with other scientific institutes of FEB
RAS. Also specific aspects of the system
described in the field of oceanology, oceanography, objective data analysis,
visualization of oceanological data, information systems based on
internet/intranet (including geoinformation systems), authorized access to data
store and services. Creation of
integrated GIS that can consolidate activity and results of research work from
various branches of oceanological investigations is paid much attention. Development of a mechanism for running
complex computational tasks on supercomputers as a part of this system is open
subject. In fact, the integral part of
this work is careful design of user interface in accordance with modern
advances in psychology of user interfaces and abilities.
NEW METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF NET SAMPLES AND FOR UNDERWATER IMAGING OF ZOOPLANKTON
Gabriel Gorsky, Philippe Grosjean,
Marc Picheral and Caroline Warembourg
LOV, UMR7093, Observatoire Oceanologique, 06234 Villefranche/mer,
France gorsky@obs-vlfr.fr
Three methods will be presented here.
1) A system for
enumeration, measurement and identification of zooplankton from net samples
named ZOOSCAN is designed for retrospective data acquisition. Historical or new
zooplankton collections may be scanned using this non-destructive method and
new databases can be rapidly compiled or existing ones completed.
2) The Underwater Video
Profiler is used for in situ image acquisition of macroplankton,
especially of fragile forms frequently damaged using net sampling. Macroplankton image files are acquired in
quasi real time and can be used by expert systems or by specialists for species
determination.
3) Creation of virtual
holotypes is an important tool for gathering information concerning fragile
organisms that may play a significant role in marine ecosystems. Because of their delicate nature, their
identification is restricted to a small number of specialists. By the 3D reconstruction of sectioned
organisms and wide diffusion of these virtual holotypes on the web we hope to
enlarge the expertise and collect new information on insufficiently documented
species.
11AM2002 S12-306 E-poster
S. Allen Macklin
NOAA/PMEL, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98815-6349, U.S.A. allen.macklin@noaa.gov
Scientists have shown that ecosystems of the North
Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas respond to decadal-scale climate change in
measurable ways. The combined climate
and ecosystem changes are called regime shifts. We do not fully understand the processes that transfer atmospheric
climate changes to the ocean; we understand even less how climate change alters
life in the sea; and we do not know how to forecast regime shifts.
Twenty years ago, scientists did
not know what caused El Niño, nor could they forecast it. It was only by deploying the equatorial buoy
system called the TAO array, and through the ensuing international research
effort, that we gained knowledge leading to the first successful El Niño
forecast in 1997.
An observational array for the
North Pacific Ocean will provide a tool for understanding North Pacific climate
changes and their effect on regional ecosystems and the rest of the world. The heart of the array will be a
configuration of moored surface and subsurface buoys, each with physical and
biological sensors transmitting in real time to a data center for dissemination
to researchers. Ancillary information
will come from other moorings, Argo floats and satellite-tracked drifters,
remote sensing platforms, scheduled and ad hoc cruises and surveys from ships,
etc. There are a number of large-scale,
long-term, US research programs that would benefit from and could help fund
part of the array. Additionally, the
array can only be successful if Pacific-wide coverage is possible with the
cooperation of other North American and Asian countries.
11AM2002 S12-304 E-poster
THE NORTH
PACIFIC DATA BUOY ADVISORY PANEL: AN
INITIATIVE OF PICES AND THE DATA BUOY CO-OPERATION PANEL
Ron McLaren and Brian O’Donnell
Meteorological Service of
Canada, Pacific & Yukon Region, Environment Canada, Suite 200-1200 W. 73rd.
Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V6P 6H9, Canada
Ron.Mclaren@ec.gc.ca
Established in 1985, the Data Buoy Co-operation
Panel, (DBCP) is an official joint body of the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC). The Panel consists of
representatives of members of the WMO or member states of the IOC interested in
participating in its activities. The
most important task of the DBCP is to co-ordinate drifting and moored buoy
programmes at the international level, with a view to increase the number of
buoys deployed and maintain high quality archived and real time oceanic and
atmospheric data.
PICES, the North Pacific Marine
Science Organization, is an intergovernmental scientific organization that was
established and held its first meetings in 1992. Its present members are Canada, People's Republic of China,
Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, and the United States of America. The goals of PICES are to promote and
co-ordinate marine research in the northern North Pacific and adjacent seas
especially northward of 30 degrees North, advance scientific knowledge about
the ocean environment, global weather and climate change, living resources and
their ecosystems, and the impacts of human activities and to promote the
collection and rapid exchange of scientific information on these issues.
The North Pacific has earned the
dubious reputation of being the "Pacific data Void", particularly in
the case of real time data availability.
With the natural synergy of the goals of the two groups, DBCP and PICES,
it seemed a logical step to combine efforts to further the aims of both
organizations. The North Pacific Data
Buoy Advisory Panel was formed within PICES in the fall of 2001 and the first
meeting of the group was held in Victoria, June 5 & 6, 2002. The electronic poster presentation describes
the formation of the Panel and the accomplishments over the past year since its
inception at PICES X.
11AM2002 S12-320 E-poster
INTEGRATING OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
INTO GIS – WORKING WITH BOTH IN-SITU AND GRIDDED DATA
Nazila Merati1, Tiffany C.
Vance2, Jason Fabritz1, Mick Spillane1, Jon
Callahan1 and Don Denbo1
1 NOAA, Office of Atmospheric Research, Pacific Marine
Environmental Laboratory, Ocean Climate Research Division, 7600 Sand Point Way
NE, Seattle, WA 98115, U.S.A. nazila.merati@noaa.gov;
jasonf@pmel.noaa.gov; spillane@pmel.noaa.gov; Callahan@pmel.noaa.gov
2 NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries
Science Center, Resource Assessment Conservation Engineering, 7600 Sand Point
Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, U.S.A. Tiffany.C.Vance@noaa.gov
Ocean scientists are beginning to incorporate the
use of GIS into data visualization, data management and analysis. At NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory (PMEL), software tools have been developed to help scientists
select, process and convert their in-situ data sets into a GIS-usable
format. EPIC is a tool that allows
scientist to manage, display and analyze CTD, XBT, time series and bottle data.
Access to PMEL’s data repository is available via the World Wide Web. The EPIC Web Browser allows users to select
data using various search criteria.
Once data are selected, users may display the data and download the data
for conversion to a GIS format. The
conversion of data uses a JAVA application developed at PMEL. Csv2shp allows users to convert .csv files
to an ESRI specified shapefile format independently of the ESRI software
environment.
Climatologies and other gridded
data sets are available for download from PMEL using the Live Access
Server. The Live Access Server (LAS)
allows users to connect to remote data servers using a seamless web interface. LAS interface allows users to select data by
geographic region and by variable type.
Data are available for download as either ascii text or ArcView Grid
Format to add to ArcView or ArcMap sessions.
Ncbrowse is a software application
developed at PMEL that allows users to browse netCDF files, subsetting the data
and saving the data to a text file that can be converted to a shapfile. Ncbrowse allows GIS users to explore their
data in 1and 2 d space.
In this presentation, we will
create a GIS project using tools developed at PMEL and provide links to other
research groups working to make oceanographic data accessible to the marine
community.
11AM2002 S12-149 E-poster
Georgiy Moiseenko
Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, 17 V.
Krasnoselskaya Street, Moscow, 107140, Russia
georgem@vniro.ru
The objective of this work is to create the
information system for monitoring of annual catch spatial distributions. The system is based on ArcView 3.2 by ESRI
and RDBMS Oracle8i by Oracle. Russian
fishing ships daily data from 1995 to 2001 are used to calculate spatial
distributions of annual catch for any object of fishing. The Oracle8i database performs all
calculations. By joining of two tables
– one from ArcView and another from Oracle database – the polygonal themes are
created. Their attribute tables contain
records with the sum catches for each polygon and object of fishing. Resulting themes visualize the process of
spatial evolution of annual catch from year to year. Some examples for the Okhotsk Sea are presented.
11AM2002 S12-150 E-poster
A CONSTRUCTION OF DATA
INVENTORY OF CO2 RELATED DATA IN THE NORTH PACIFIC
Sachiko Oguma and Toru Suzuki
Marine Information Research Center (MIRC), Japan
Hydrographic Association, Mishima Bldg. 5F, 7-15-4 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo,
104-0061, Japan oguma@mirc.jha.or.jp
As an interest to the greenhouse gases has
increased, oceanic CO2 observations have been actively done during
many projects in the world, and lots of data analyses have suggested air-sea CO2
exchange in various temporal and spatial scales. There are some difficulties of data exchange, however, not only
for CO2 data but also for other chemical oceanographic data. To share and fully open the data, an
effective data management method has become much important. For more active and free data exchange, a
Japanese scientist group has established "Inventory for Chemical
Oceanographic Data (IJCD)" since 2000.
Main purpose of IJCD is to rescue scattered data in the institutes and
to establish the inventory database system in order to encourage the exchange
of the data among researchers, who interests in chemical oceanographic
research. Another important activity of
IJCD is to consult on the development of the data format of the chemical oceanographic
data with meta-data, which contains items used for inventory. For efficient collection of data inventory,
IJCD cooperates with national and international activities concerned. IJCD data
inventory will be public via web site, and will be linked with real data, which
can be fully opened.
11AM2002 S12-136 E-poster
WEB-BASED
REAL-TIME MONITORING OF WATER QUALITY CONDITIONS IN THE KOREAN COASTAL WATERS
Young Jae Ro, Yang Ho Choi and Cha
Kyum Kim
Chungnam National University,
Yusung-ku, Kung-dong 220, Taejon, 305-764 Republic of Korea royoungj@cnu.ac.kr
This
study is based on the operational real-time monitoring system for the water
quality conditions in Korean coastal waters at two locations. To establish warning system for harmful
algal bloom and other emergent episodes for local fishery farming, it is
necessary to obtain very detailed information for abrupt change of water
quality conditions. To make effective
warning messages possible, such information is required on a real-time
basis. This study developed a real-time
monitoring system of oceanic conditions (current, sea level, salinity,
dissolved oxygen, turbidity) in the Chunsu Bay and the Namhae Bay, western and
southern coastal waters of Korea, respectively. The system consists of three major sub-systems of data loggers
with sensor array in the seawater, to which wireless Internet data terminal
such as pda is connected and a host computer is on the remote location. The system produces the database of oceanic
conditions with sampling interval of 10 minutes continuously. Real-time monitored data can be browsed on
the Internet web pages in terms of text and graphics with query function for
the existing database. The display
pages contain the time series plot of temperature and other conditions,
statistics of data-based parameters, recall of the past parameters, etc. In this study, we will describe seasonal and
high frequency variation of temperature as well as other oceanic conditions in
terms of descriptive statistical parameters and spectral analyses. Results of multivariate analyses will be
given with emphasis of regressing time series of dissolved oxygen to various
oceanic processes. In particular,
episodes of oxygen depletion in summer season will be highlighted and is
attempted to forecast with a stochastic model.
11AM2002 S12-151 E-poster
DEVELOPMENT
OF A REGIONAL SEGMENT OF THE UNIFIED SYSTEM OF INFORMATION ON THE WORLD OCEAN
STATE (ESIMO) IN RUSSIA
Igor D. Rostov, V.I. Rostov, E.V.
Dmitrieva and N.I. Rudykh
Pacific Oceanological Institute,
43 Baltiyskaya Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia. rostov@pacificinfo.ru
Considerable
progress in sphere of oceanographic data management in Russia has been achieved
at the expense of means concentration and efficient coordination of studies developed
for the last 3 years in the frame of the Subprogram "Creating a Unified
System of Information on the World Ocean State". It represents an important part of the Federal target program
"The World Ocean" and is realized by organizations of different
Federal Departments under 51 projects.
Actually it is most significant National GLOBEC-like Program in the
field of data management. In the bounds
of the conception for the ESIMO construction, at the POI there has been created
a sub-regional segment of the system.
Main objectives of the studies are:
1. Formation of the information system fund. Development of the integrated oceanographic
database.
2. Development of the special website "Oceanography and
Marine Environment of the Far Eastern Region of Russia", located at
<www.pacificinfo.ru>.
3. Realization of subject electronic
information-reference textbooks and atlases for their distribution on CD-ROM
and through Internet.
4. Realization of computing-model block. Construction of complex information-analytical system on marine environment of the Far Eastern Seas.
11AM2002 S12-152 E-poster
OCEANOGRAPHIC
ATLAS OF THE BERING SEA, OKHOTSK SEA AND JAPAN/EAST SEA. CD-ROM VERSION IN ENGLISH
Igor D. Rostov, N.I. Rudykh and V.I.
Rostov
Pacific Oceanological Institute,
43 Baltiyskaya Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia. rostov@pacificinfo.ru
The
electronic Atlas presents a summary of many major aspects of the Far Eastern
Seas (FES) regional oceanography presented as tables, pictures and text
materials. CD-ROM contains a brief annotated description of data on the main
physical-geographical characteristics, peculiarities of hydrological regime,
water masses, tidal phenomena, water circulation and ice conditions in the
FES. It is presented the vast graphic
material (1600 color pictures) characterizing the large-scale background
peculiarities of distribution and inter-annual variability of the seawater
temperature, salinity, sound velocity, some hydrochemical elements and
currents. It is given a list of the
available databases of free access and the web sites containing additional
operative and archived data on a wide circle of special and interrelated
problems of studying and exploring the region.
The system provides fast access to the specially selected data stored on
CD-ROM, as well as to the other operative or generalized reference information
scattered among various sources, and hence, limited for wide use. CD-ROM is distributed on a non-commercial
basis. A copy of full version will be available through the Internet
(www.pacificinfo.ru).
11AM2002 S12-153 E-poster
DATA BASE
OF ARCHIVAL OBSERVATIONS OF CURRENTS IN THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
Vladimir I. Rostov, N.I. Rudykh and
I.D. Rostov
Pacific Oceanological Institute, 43 Baltiyskaya
Street, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia. rostov@pacificinfo.ru
New database of current observations by
current-meters of moored buoy stations (MBS) is developed at the POI FEBRAS (DB
"Ocean-3"). Data of 850 MBS
obtained from the Russian NODC, POI archive and other organizations are assembled
in the DB for the northern Pacific.
Using the relational "Paradox" Data Management System allows
us to organize direct access to all stored information and easily manipulate
the data for the analysis and visualization.
Executing various requests, it is possible to receive any information,
which is presented at the DB to make various calculations, to build the
diagrams and pictures illustrating outcomes of the requests and
calculations. For the convenience of operating
with the DB a special form for the survey and choice of necessary information
is created. As a result of the research
the electronic version of the DB "Ocean-3" on CD-ROM is created. Except for the Russian observations, it
includes the J-DOSS/JODC data accessible through the Internet, and also the USA
similar data for 1965-2000 years copied from CD-ROM, issued by OSU Buoy Group,
Oregon State University.
11AM2002 S12-317 E-poster
COMPARISON
OF GRIDDED TEMPERATURE PROFILES AND WALLEYE POLLOCK DATA FROM TRAWL SURVEYS ON
THE BERING SEA SHELF
Margaret E. Sullivan
JISAO/PMEL/NOAA, FOCI -
Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations, 7600 Sand Point Way, NE, Box
357941, Bldg. 3, Room 2083, Seattle, WA
98115, U.S.A. sullivan@pmel.noaa.gov
Correlation
of oceanographic and fisheries data is imperative for assessment of fisheries
resources and climate-related ocean issues, and FOCI (Fisheries Oceanography
Coordinated Investigations) is driven to study the effect of physical and
biological environments on recruitment of various species. Walleye pollock is a vital species in the
Bering Sea, and an important species commercially and ecologically. Trawl data as well as pollock CPUE data and
temperature profiles have been collected annually over the Bering Sea shelf by
the Alaska Fisheries Research Center (AFSC).
This data resource has impressive potential for providing an areal
depiction of fish habitat conditions.
Water column temperature over a spatial grid will be developed from
MicroBathythermograph (MBT) data collected during annual early-summer trawl
surveys. A minimum of data has been
prepared as temperature transects, allowing for 2D representation of
temperature contours. The data set
preparation will be expanded upon to create a larger 3D area of temperature
information. Mixed-layer depths will be
calculated. These two endeavors will
provide for development of 3D views of mixed-layer depth over the coverage
area, and a view of cold pool movement across the extent. Once a spatial extent is established with
temperature data, corresponding fisheries data for Walleye pollock will be used
in conjunction with the 3D temperature grid.
Calculations and data presentation will utilize web-based technologies.
11AM2002 S12-319 E-poster
PROCESSING
AND VISUALIZATION OF OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA IN 2.5 AND 3D- EXAMPLES FROM THE BERING
SEA, ARCTIC AND WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES
Tiffany C. Vance1 and
Nazila Merati2
1 NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries
Science Center, Resource Assessment Conservation Engineering, 7600 Sand Point
Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, U.S.A. Tiffany.C.Vance@noaa.gov
2 NOAA, Office of Atmospheric Research, Pacific Marine
Environmental Laboratory, Ocean Climate Research Division, 7600 Sand Point Way
NE, Seattle, WA 98115, U.S.A. Nazila.Merati@noaa.gov
NOAA's
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and Alaska Fisheries Science
Center (AFSC), both in Seattle, collect a wealth of data about the physical and
biological characteristics of the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. The data are stored in a variety of formats
in a variety of data systems. AFSC makes extensive use of a GIS to store their
data. PMEL has growing expertise in visualizing scientific data. Routines have been developed to take data
from a variety of sources that have not previously been GIS compatible. ArcView
GIS and ArcView 3D Analyst have been used to create a series of VRML
visualizations of these data. Some of
the VRML files have been created directly from 3D Analyst; others have required
extensive postprocessing. The use of
EVS, a geological software visualization package, to create true 3D
visualizations will also be demonstrated.
11AM2002 S12-154 E-poster
WEBSITE OF PICES TECHNICAL
COMMITTEE FOR DATA EXCHANGE
Ivan Vysotskiy
Far Eastern National University, Kaplunova 3-76,
Vladivostok, 690013, Russia
defender@nurisoft.ru
The goal of this site is to provide a media for
TCODE members for information exchange and communication.
At the moment, the content is divided into the
following sections:
-
Work
plan including a description of progress for each entry;
-
Annual
reports;
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Metadata
storage;
-
News;
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Members
info;
-
Links
to data and metadata resources.
The site is implemented as a
virtual server on the web server of TINRO-Center (http://www.tinro.ru) and
available at the URL http://tcode.tinro.ru.
The server is created with use of the Apache web server, Perl scripting
language and Oracle DBMS. All site
pages have a similar structure and consist of the header, menu, workspace and
footer. The pages are distinguished
only by the contents of the workspaces.
Along with browsing, the
server provides following services:
-
Online
search;
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Metadata
updating;
-
Members
info updating;
-
News
updating.
The privileged users (TCODE
members) may edit the contents of the members info and metadata sections. Before editing, the users must pass through
the authentication procedure. Only a
server administrator generates login/passwords and edits the news section.
Sung-Dae
Kim,
Ki-Cheon Jun,
Dong-Young Lee, Soo-Young Park
Korea
Ocean Research & Development Institute, Korea
An
interactive WWW service system is developed to provide wave data of deep water
and shallow water produced by several numerical models. The deep wave data of 67 points around Korea
peninsula are computed by HYPA model
whose grid size is 27km and the shallow wave data are calculated at 13 Korean
coastal areas by SWAN models whose grid sizes are from 250m to 750m. The results of models are saved in binary
files for minimizing file size and extraction time. This wave information system consists of six main menus and about
20 sub menus to provide average wave height, wave distribution, wave rose,
extreme wave height, etc. in form of digital values and spatial distributions
of wave heights in form of graphic images.
The user interfaces are HTML documents including several text boxes, combo
boxes, buttons and image maps for CGI process to get user's requirement through
internet. ASP
scripts files and C language programs are used for
responding CGI request, FORTRAN programs for data extraction from binary output
files, and JAVA applets for
visualization of spatial distribution. When
WWW users choose search conditions for data extraction, wave data are displayed
in table format or graphics as result of harmonious execution of several
programs coded by multi languages. This
system also provides wind data used as input parameter of wave models produced
by ECMWF (European
Centre of Medium-Range Weather Forecasts).