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 part of the Pacific Ocean. 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 researches 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.