# Presentation: 424706

## ARCHIVE AND DISSEMINATE  MAJOR OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS’ DATA

**CHARLES SUN**
- NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER

- NOAA ISOS Working Forum Meeting, July 20-22,2004, NCDC, Asheville, NC

## U.S. NODC Mission

- Ensure that global oceanographic data collected
- at great cost is preserved and maintained in a
- permanent archive that is easily accessible to the
- world science community and to other users.

**Access to NODC data holdings at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov**

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## LIST OF NOAA Observing Systems’ Data Archived at NODC

**NESDIS – POES (SST)**
**NOS-NCOP**
**NOS-NS&T MUSSEL**
**NOS-SWMP **
**NWS-BOY**

**NWS-MAN**
**OAR-Argo**
**OAR-ENSO OS Drifting Buoys**
**OAR-FOCI **
**OAR-SEAS-ENSO OS**
**OAR-TAO**

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## Highlights of Data

**World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)**
**Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP)**
**Argo Profiling Float Network**
**NOAA Marine Environmental Buoy Data**
**Coral Reef Data and Information**
**NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data **
**Joint Archive for Sea Level Data**
**Joint Archive for Shipboard ADCP**
**NODC AVHRR Pathfinder**
**World Ocean Database**

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**Notes:**
The data are hourly, daily, and monthly sea level values from stations in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Most data are from tide gauges but some data are derived from bottom-
The data are hourly, daily, and monthly sea level values from stations in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Most data are from tide gauges but some data are derived from bottom-. The data are hourly, daily, and monthly sea level values from stations in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Most data are from tide gauges but some data are derived from 

The data are hourly, daily, and monthly sea level values from stations in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Underway surface meteorological and oceanographic data collected aboard NOAA vessels

## Parameters and Data Types

**Sub Surface Temperature & Salinity**
**Sea Surface Salinity**
**Surface Meteorology**
**Air-Sea Fluxes**
**Sub Surface Floats**
**Profiling Floats**
**Drifters**
**Sea Level**

**Ocean Currents **
**Ocean Waves**** **
**Satellite Winds**
**Satellite Sea Level and Temperature **
**Chlorophyll**
**Nutrients**
**Oxygen**
**Plankton**

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## Data Archive and Distribution Formats

**Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Format**
**Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) **
**ASCII Text Format**

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## Access to Originator's Data

**http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/search/prod/**

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## Examples of an End-to-End Data Management System

**http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/argo/**

**http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/GTSPP/**

**ARGO**

**GTSPP**

- Source: http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/HYDRO/argo/gallery.php

- NOAA ISOS Working Forum Meeting, July 20-22,2004, NCDC, Asheville, NC