Preface
On behalf of all Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC) staff, I would like to express mysincere gratitude to users and contributors. With your kind cooperation, we could issue the fifteenth
annual activity report as Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) withinInternational Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) framework.
This report is mainly intended to notify the current dissemination and utilization of data in JODC
numerically. JODC's international activities such as education and training, organizing of conference,and research and development are also reported.
Since its establishment in 1965, JODC has managed and provided oceanographic dataconsistently. The amount of archived data has become huge in recent years. It is our mission thatvaluable data from contributors are utilized by users effectively without any hoarded data. Therefore,
it becomes more important to not only collect or archive data but also provide easy access andpromote utilization of data.
JODC has operated JODC Data On-line Service System (J-DOSS), by which users can easilyacquire data through Internet. In 2003, we started to provide data not only in conventional text files
but also in Network Common Data Form (netCDF) and Ocean Data View (ODV) spreadsheet to try to
improve the easiness of the data utilization.
Moreover, we tried to facilitate international data exchange and improve the capacity of dataprocessing in this region, to promote utilization of oceanographic data.
There are a lot of data that have not been necessarily utilized yet. It is JODC's mission topromote utilization of those data, develop the system so that the results develop further data exchange
and maintain stable services in the future.
Your continued support and cooperation for JODC activities will be greatly appreciated.
March 2004
Nobuyuki Shibayama
Director
Japan Oceanographic Data Centeri

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CONTENTS

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1. Topics in JODC........................................................................................ 1
1.1. New Digital Publications of JODC ...................................................................... 1
1.1.1.
Japanese Experiment on Asian Monsoon (JEXAM) .................................................. 1
1.1.2.
Ecological Study Dataset of Microbial Web in the Tokyo Bay (ECOMIC) .............. 1
Fig. 1 Microbial Loop in Food Web ......................................................................................... 2
1.1.3.
Statistics of Wave Data.................................................................................................. 3
Fig. 2 Frequency of Appearance of Wind................................................................................ 3

1.2. JODC Data On-line Service System (J-DOSS) .................................................. 3
1.2.1.
ODV spreadsheet and NetCDF file .............................................................................. 3
Fig. 3 Screen Shot of Search Result ......................................................................................... 3
1.2.2.
Update of the data ......................................................................................................... 4
Fig. 4 Station Plots for GODAR Serial Station Data .............................................................. 5
Fig. 5 Time Series of Data for Each Country.......................................................................... 6

1.3. Introduction of Received Data ............................................................................. 6
1.3.1.
1.3.2.

JGOFS International Collection .................................................................................. 6
NOWPHAS .................................................................................................................... 6

1.4. IODE Regional Coordinator for WESTPAC ..................................................... 7

2. International Projects / Meetings Participated in by JODC............... 8
2.1. Report of the 17th Session of IOC Committee on IODE.................................... 8
2.2. Report of the 22nd IOC Assembly ........................................................................ 92.3. Report of the Final Meeting of the JGOFS NPTT/NPSG ............................... 10
2.4. Visit to Korea Oceanographic Data Center...................................................... 11
2.5. Report of the 23rd IUGG General Assembly..................................................... 12

3. RNODC's Activities under the Charge of the JODC......................... 13
3.1. RNODC for WESTPAC ..................................................................................... 13
3.1.1.
Status of CSR and Data Management ....................................................................... 13
Table 1 Inventory of CSR Received by JODC in 2003......................................................... 13
Table 2 Number of Archived Data in the WESTPAC Region.............................................. 17
3.1.2.
NEAR-GOOS RDMDB............................................................................................... 17
Table 3 Data Type and Volume of NEAR-GOOS RDMDB ................................................. 18
3.1.3.
Data Training Course.................................................................................................. 19

3.2. RNODC for IGOSS............................................................................................. 20
Table 4 Data Holding Status of IGOSS BATHY/TESAC .................................................... 20
Fig. 6-1 Station Plots for BATHY........................................................................................... 21
Fig. 6-2 Station Plots for TESAC ........................................................................................... 21iii

3.3. RNODC for MARPOLMON ............................................................................. 22
Fig. 7 Station Plots for Oil Slick ............................................................................................. 22
Table 5 Number of Archived Data for MARPOLMON ....................................................... 23
Table 6 Number of Data Related Marine Pollution.............................................................. 23
Fig. 8-1 Station Plots for Cd Data in the Northwest Pacific Ocean..................................... 24
Fig. 8-2 Station Plots for Pb Data in the Northwest Pacific Ocean ..................................... 24
Fig. 8-3 Station Plots for PCB Data in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.................................. 24

3.4. RNODC for ADCP .............................................................................................. 25
Table 7 Number of Archived Data for ADCP........................................................................ 25
Fig. 9-1 Station Plots for ADCP Data in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean ............ 25
Fig. 9-2 Station Plots for ADCP Data in the Northwest Pacific Ocean ............................... 26

ANNEXESI.
Terms of Reference for IODE Regional Coordinator.................................. 27
II.
IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy ................................................. 27
III. Terms of Reference for RNODC-WESTPAC............................................... 29
IV. Participants List of the 7th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course.................... 29
V.
Course Programme of the 7th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course............... 30
VI. Terms of Reference for RNODC-IGOSS ...................................................... 31
VII. Terms of Reference for RNODC-MARPOLMON....................................... 31
VIII. Terms of Reference for RNODC-ADCP ....................................................... 32iv

1. Topics in JODC
1.1. New Digital Publications of JODC
1.1.1. Japanese Experiment on Asian Monsoon (JEXAM)
The Asian Monsoon has exerted a great influence on the climate changes in the Southeast Asia
region and the surrounding area as well as Japan, and moreover it has influenced the global climatechange. Due to the vastness of these regions and waters and the severe observational environment,
however, the collection of data concerned with the basic meteorological and oceanographic conditions
has not necessarily been sufficient.
Because of these, the Science and Technology Agency implemented the Japanese Experiment on
Asian Monsoon (JEXAM) to understand the mechanism of the Asian Monsoon in its ten-year programfrom 1989 to 1998 with the participation of research institutes of the Science and Technology Agency,
the Japan Fisheries Agency, the Maritime Safety Agency, the Japan Meteorological Agency and theMinistry of Posts and Telecommunications.
The JODC, which has led the collection, management and provision of oceanographic data
related to the study, published the dataset in order to prevent the dispersion of oceanographic dataobtained from the study and encourage the further utilization of the data.
The dataset contains the following oceanographic data in the Indian Ocean:● Japan Meteorological Agency
Some 3800 data of water temperature by XBT● Japan Fisheries Agency
Some 4600 data of water temperature and salinity by XBT and CTD, etc.
● Maritime Safety Agency
ARGOS drifting buoy data
Ocean current calculated from the positions of ARGOS drifting buoys● World Data Center-A
Water temperature data by BT and XBT, etc., in the “World Ocean Database 1998”● Others
Annual track animation of ARGOS drifting buoys(The names of the organizations are those at the time of study)

1.1.2. Ecological Study Dataset of Microbial Web in the Tokyo Bay (ECOMIC)
The JODC has led the collection and information management for the observation data of marineorganisms as well as the publication of the data. The JODC recently digitized the research andobservation data of zooplankton and phytoplankton in the Tokyo Bay provided by Dr. Kimitoshi
Ishikawa, a former senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology, and compiled them as a dataset in CD-ROM.
The dataset is Ecology of Coastal Microbial Cycle (ECOMIC) that the Marine Environment
Division of the National Institute for Resources and Environment (the present National Institute ofAdvanced Industrial Science and Technology), with the cooperation of the Ocean Research Institute of
the University of Tokyo and the Shinshu University, studied for five years from 1993 thedecomposition and circulation system of organic matters involving the decomposition and productionof microbial web in the dynamic state of organic matters in the Tokyo Bay.

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The study estimated the origin of the mixed organic matters to be the influx of the rivers or thecirculation and regeneration in the Tokyo Bay using the examination methods of carbon isotopic ratio
in the surface water samples from 13 observation points running through the Tokyo Bay from north tosouth and also provided the analyzed observation data in the enclosed bay for the measurement ofbacteria and plankton of more than 50 species in the Tokyo Bay and the grasp of their existing
numbers.
In the enclosed coastal waters including bays, the influx of organic matters from the rivers hascaused the sedimentation in the estuaries to deteriorate the water environment or affect the efforts toimprove it. Meanwhile, however, there has traditionally been the biocycle that has formed the cycleof circulation and regeneration for the generation and decomposition of organic matters involving
microorganisms in the enclosed waters to ensure the stability of the waters; the behaviors of eachorganic matter in the water are believed to be different that makes one of the major tasks to regenerate
and improve the environment of the enclosed waters.
It was a good opportunity for the improvement and consideration of the management andprovision of effective format and data that the JODC participated in the production of digitized datasetof the ECOMIC data to digitize and compile the general monitoring research data in the bay area.
The JODC is determined to address the enhancement of data management and the effective
provision of data through the further oceanographic data archaeology including monitoring research.

DOM,
DIN
DOM, DIM

Microbial Loop
DIN, DIP

Fig. 1 Microbial Loop in Food Web

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POM

River

1.1.3. Statistics of Wave Data
The JODC took the statistics for 20 years of wave data from visual observations on the vessels inJapanese waters and wave data taken at 51 points along Japanese coast including the vessel weather
report points by the use of vision or measuring devices and compiled them into diagrams to publish its
homepage and CD-ROM (written in Japanese).
Statistic items:
Wave data from vessel:
Frequency of appearance of wind,
wind wave and swell
Wave data at coast:
Previous maximum and averagevalues of wind, frequency ofFig. 2 Frequency of Appearance of Windappearance of wind and wind wave
Statistic areas:
Wave data from vessel:
1-degree mesh of latitude 20-50 degrees north and longitude 120-150 degrees east
Statistic period:
Full years from 1978 to 1997 and each month

1.2. JODC Data On-line Service System (J-DOSS)
1.2.1. ODV spreadsheet and NetCDF file
The JODC operates J-DOSS (JODC Data On-line Service System), which is an on-line
oceanographic data or information retrieval system. The oceanographic data are downloaded
through J-DOSS in the JODC standard ASCII text format, FETI (Format of Exchange and Translation
for Integration) format. The different types of oceanographic data obtained by various observationequipments are integrated into two types of formats, scalar type and vector type. The header recordsof both formats are also integrated.
Although, in recent years, the software that can easily visualize various oceanographic data has
been published and widely used, the FETI format that is not compatible with such software.
Therefore, the JODC improved J-DOSS in July 2003 so that, in addition to the FETI format, theoceanographic data could be downloaded in ODV spreadsheet and the NetCDF file, which are usedworldwide.

ODV spreadsheet
This is a file format compatible with “Ocean
Data View,” the software by which oceanographic
data can be easily visualize, that the Alfred Wegener
Institute (AWI) in Germany developed and is a
simple tab-delimited ASCII format. With a headerline in the first line and data part from the second
line, the format can easily be incorporated into
spreadsheet software.
(See http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/GEO/ODV/)

Fig. 3 Screen Shot of Search Result

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NetCDF file
This is a Network Common Data Form format file developed by the University Corporation for
Atmosphere Research (UCAR) Unidata Program Center in the U.S. As data input/output library isalready prepared, and there are many applications compatible with the NetCDF file, you can handle
data without being aware of data format.
(See http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/)

1.2.2. Update of the data
The following are the data updated at present:● Tide Data
Data period: 2002 to 2003
● Ocean Current Data (ADCP)
Data period: 2002
● Serial Station Data
CTD
Data period: 2002 to 2003
XBT
Data period: 2002 to 2003
Antarctic Expedition Data
Data period: until 2001
● GODAR data
Serial Station Data
Data period: 1931 to 1947
Station Plots: Shown in Fig. 4.
Tide Data
Data period: 1938 to 1964
Background of Discovery of Materials
The Global Oceanographic Data Archeology & Rescue Project (GODAR) has beenpromoted, and the “GODAR-WESTPAC” for the West Pacific Region has also started.
As a result that the JODC searched for the forgotten data in the Japan Coast Guard, 32
cardboard boxes containing the oceanographic materials of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Hydrographic Department (the present Japan Coast Guard Hydrographic and Oceanographic
Department) were discovered in the warehouse. The materials were naturally dusty, andthe covers were weathered and partly torn apart, while the inside containing the observation
values, etc., was unexpectedly in good condition though weathered (the recording papers inthose days were good quality?). As a result that these observation record tables werecategorized into observation years, research ships, observation waters, observation items, etc.
and examined if registered in the JODC’s database, it turned out that more than 17000 data
were unprocessed.
The sorting of this massive amount of materials was naturally a hard work, but the fightwith ticks was much harder. A few days after the spraying of pesticide on the materials,
the work with gloves on was started, which was unbearable because of itching.
The materials at that time were withdrawn by the Allied Occupation forces soon after
the end of the WW II but were returned later. Most of them were digitized around the time4

of the establishment of the JODC and have been made available to the public since. Mostof the materials discovered were documented then by the “Base Observation Teams” locatedat 19 places in the country. It is speculated that they have been remained hidden for allthese years, as the Allied Occupation forces did not withdraw them.
The materials consist of those documented between 1931 and 1947, but most of them
are the observation materials documented between 1939 and 1944. The number of data is
about 12000, and about 12000 are of water temperature and salinity, about 10000 are of pH,
about 100 are of dissolved oxygen and silicate and about 340 are of ocean current data byobservation item.
Because it was during the war, the observation points extended from Taiwan to thePhilippines, Indonesia and the offshore of the Marshall Islands (See Fig. 4).
In addition, as for tide data, the hourly rise of tide (monthly tables of tide) in paper
medium hidden in the warehouse was rescued. These data were collected at the Port of
Yokosuka in 1938 and 1942-1944 and the Port of Sasebo and the Izuhara Port after 1943.

Fig. 4 Station Plots for GODAR Serial Station Data●

Newly posted Chart of Wave Statistics
Data period: 1978 to 1997
Two types of Chart of Wave Statistics — “Statistics of Wave Data from Onboard Visual
Observations” using data from the vessels and “Statistics of Wave Data from Visual
Observations at Coast” using data observed at coast — were developed.
The Statistics of Wave Data from Onboard Visual Observations separate
latitude/longitude by 1-degree mesh. The range of the waters is 20N-51N, 120E-151E.
The Statistics of Wave Data from Visual Observations at Coast were collected at 70
observation points across the country.
Statistical items are wind, wind wave and swell.
Available figures and tables are: Station Plots, Map of Density of Stations, Table ofMaximum Wind Speed, Table of Average Wind, Figure of Frequency of Appearance andTable of Frequency of Appearance.

Received data from each country is plotted in Fig. 5.

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Stations

80000

60000

40000

Others
KOREA
U.K.
FRANCE
AUSTRALIACANADARUSSIA
U.S.A.
JAPAN

1931
1933
1935
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1941
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1945
1947
1949
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1955
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1961
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20000

Fig. 5 Time Series of Data for Each Country

1.3. Introduction of Received Data
1.3.1. JGOFS International Collection
When the JGOFS’s Final Open Science Conference was held at the National Academy of
Sciences in Washington, DC, USA, 5-8 May 2003, the DVD of dataset containing each country’s
JGOFS-related project were distributed to the participants, and 50 of them were sent to the JODC.
This dataset was developed by Data Management Task Team (DMTT) with the cooperation of theWorld Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE). It contains the datasets from15 countries, which includes Northwest Pacific Carbon Cycle Study (NOPACCS) from Japan. In thisvolume, each dataset is contained in separate folder and formats of data are not unified.
Further development is scheduled for the next volume that may be published in 2004 or 2005.

1.3.2. NOWPHASNOWPHAS (Nationwide Ocean Wave information network for Ports and HArbourS) is national
network for the coastal wave observation developed and operated by the Ports and Harbors Bureau of
MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) in conjunction with the Port and Airport
Research Institute, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, and the Regional
Develop Bureaus.
Since 1970, the Port and Airport Research Institute has been in charge of processing andanalyzing of coastal wave data in the NOWPHAS network. The wave data of more than 50 coastal
sites around Japan are transferred to the Port and Airport Research Institute in real time.
The coastal wave information of NOWPHAS contributes to the maritime safety through thecoastal wave forecasting by Japan Meteorological Agency. The results of the statistical analysis of
long-term wave data are used for the planning and constructing of ports, airports, and shore protection,
and also widely used for the development, utilization, protection of disasters in the coastal area.
JODC has received the analyzed wave data at more than 50 sites around Japan observed in 2001
from the Port and Airport Research Institute. They consists of the data on mean wave, significant
wave, 1/10 highest wave, and maximum wave at each site of 2-hour interval. Since July 2003, suchdata have been available on NEAR-GOOS RDMDB (Regional Delayed Mode DataBase).

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1.4. IODE Regional Coordinator for WESTPAC
The system of IODE Regional Coordinator was established mainly for the objectives ofaccelerating infiltration of the IODE activities and policies in eight regions in the world. The
Director of JODC accepted the request from IOC for assumption of the IODE Regional Coordinator
for WESTPAC in 1997. The terms of reference for IODE Regional Coordinator have revised at the
IODE16 in 2000. The terms of reference for IODE Regional Coordinator are introduced in ‎Annex I.
The main activity of Regional Coordinator in the year of 2004 was the promotion of
GODAR-WESTPAC. JODC staff, Mr. Tomioka visited Bangkok in December, 2003, to inspect thesituation of data exchange in Thailand and to request the support to GODAR-WESTPAC.

Visit to Bangkok
I visited Bangkok, Thailand, from December 1 to 5, 2003, mainly for the research of carbon
dioxide (CO2)-related substances data and the research of the flow of the oceanographic data, etc.
The outline is as follows.
I visited the Chulalongkorn University on December 2. The university had a vast campus of
40000 faculty and students with a street running through it.
The Visiting Professor Satsuki Matsumura took a good care of me. His support helped me
achieve my objectives. Although he was very busy for the practical training of marine research on
the following day, he spared his time for me. As the university has no marine research vessels of its
own, those researches are conducted a few times a year using a chartered ship with periodic contract.
I was told that the main feature of the activity was a practical training of marine research for students
rather than actual marine research, and the main research items were physical data including watertemperature, salinity, etc., and biological data.
It seems that the collected data are mostly kept by the university and, as a whole, researchers andengineers themselves with less data distribution. His explanation about circumstances over marine
data in Thailand helped me glimpse a part of Thailand’s general efforts toward marine research.
After that, I explained to him about the purpose and registration procedure of the GODAR-WESTPAC
using the pamphlet I had brought with me as well as the state of archeology and digitalization of theoceanographic data from 1945 to 1954 in Japan. With the cancellation of my visit plan on thefollowing day, I visited this day the Secretariat of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center(SEAFDEC) without appointment, but the person in charge was absent. The SEAFDEC, anautonomous intergovernmental body of 10 countries including ASEAN member countries and Japanfor the research and development of fisheries mainly in the South China Sea and the education andtraining, was developing various kinds of data products (CD-ROMs). The data of WDC and JODC
were used in them. On the following day, I visited the Bangkok office of the IOC/WESTPAC. The
office was on the 3rd floor of the National Research Council where I met Dr. Miguel D. Fortes, thechief of the office who had arrived in the post from the Philippines in October 2003, and Ms. Nachapa
Saransuth, the secretary whom I had contacted with on the WESTPAC/NEAR-GOOS data
management training. I explained to them about the JODC’s plan to cancel the next year’s 8th
WESTPAC/NEAR-GOOS data management training to hold the workshop of the
GODAR-WESTPAC instead. They questioned me about the reason, date, budget, etc. I asked themfor the cooperation of the office that would be needed when it was decided to hold the workshop.
Dr. Miguel promised me to cooperate and requested me to inform him as soon as possible, and I
promised him to inform him at every important step of each procedure.

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2. International Projects / Meetings Participated in by JODC
2.1. Report of the 17th Session of IOC Committee on IODE
The Seventeenth Session of IOC Committee on IODE (International Oceanographic Data andInformation Exchange) was held at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France during 3-7 March 2003.
The session was attended by 72 delegates from 42 IOC Member States, 16 representatives oforganizations, programmes and projects, and 5 observers. From Japan, Prof. Michida of Ocean
Research and Mr. Sato of JODC participated in the session.
At the opening of the session, the Chair, Dr. Balopoulos pointed out that the focus of IODE had
shifted from the traditional delayed-mode, physical data management.
JODC reported on the activities of the RNODCs for WESTPAC, IGOSS, MALPOLMON, and
ADCP during the past inter-sessional period, noting inter alia the NEAR-GOOS RDMDB (Regional
Delayed Mode DataBase), IOC/WESTPAC training course on NEAR-GOOS data management, andthe data management for shipboard ADCP at JODC. In addition, as the work of the IODE Regional
Coordinator for WESTPAC, JODC informed the Committee of the progress related to the
GODAR-WESTPAC (Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue in the Western Pacific),
noting the first International Workshop on GODAR-WESTPAC held in Tokyo during 5-7 March 2002.
Concerning the RNODCs, the Committee decided to maintain the RNODC for the Southern
Ocean, in spite of the dissolution of IOCSOC (IOC Regional Committee for the Southern Ocean).
On the other hand, the RNODC-Formats were dissolved because it had not functioned at all forseveral years.
The IOC/IODE Secretariat took over the tasks formerly covered by the
RNODC-Formats.
The Committee reviewed the work of the past inter-sessional period, especially, the cooperation
with GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) and JCOMM (Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission
for Oceanography & Marine Meteorology), the new IODE Group of Experts on Biological andChemical Data Management & Exchange Practices (GE-BCDMEP), the new Global Ocean Surface
Underway Data Pilot Programme (GOSUD), the Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue(GODAR) project, the development of a marine XML, and the regional networks ODINAFRICA(Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa) and ODINCARSA (Ocean Data and Information
Network for IOCARIBE and South America).
The Committee decided to establish two working groups. The first one is an inter-sessional
working group to examine the future role of WDCs, RNODCs and NODCs. The Committee
discussed how well the data centers meet the needs of IODE’s current data management requirements,
which are very different from when IODE was established. And, then the working group was tasked
to discuss future roles for the WDCs, as well as RNODCs and NODCs taking into consideration, interalia, the needs of JCOMM and GOOS in terms of operational data. The second one is an ad hocworking group on the implications of GOOS and JCOMM development on IODE. It was tasked toprepare, for IODE-XVIII, a comprehensive report on the interactions between GOOS, JCOMM and
IODE. The Committee also decided to establish the IODE Review Team and defined its terms ofreference. The review team was recommended to be independent with experience in data
management and users/clients of IODE services. It was tasked to present the final report to the IOC
Assembly at its 23rd session in 2005.
The Committee recommended the merging of the GETADE (IODE Group of Experts on theTechnical Aspects of Data Exchange) and JCOMM ETDMP (Expert Team on Data Management
Practices), because two expert teams with very similar terms of reference.

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The Committee supported the establishment of an IODE Project Office and recommended thatthe offer of the Government of Flanders and the City of Oostende to host the Office in Oostende,
Belgium be accepted. The IODE Secretariat faces the problems, (i) limitations in bandwidth at
UNESCO Headquarters; (ii) shortage of technical staff; (iii) no equipped training facilities areavailable and (iv) difficulties in obtaining equipped meeting room facilities. In response to these
problems, an IODE Project Office will be established.
The Committee elected Dr. Lesley Rickards as IODE Chair and Mr. Ricardo Rojas as IODE
Vice-Chair.

2.2. Report of the 22nd IOC Assembly
The 22nd IOC Assembly was held at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris from June 24 to July 4,
2003, with the participation of 85 states of the IOC Member States. The Japanese delegation headedby Mr. Terazaki, a professor of the Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, consist of 8
members (2 from the Ocean Research Institute, 1 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 3 from the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 1 from the Meteorological Agency
and 1 from the JODC).
Mr. Sato of the JODC attended from June 24 to July 1. The discussion on the oceanographic
data management at the Assembly is mainly reported as follows.
The IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy was adopted at the Assembly. The IOC has
implemented the international exchange of the oceanographic data mainly through the International
Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) system consist of the World Data Centers(WDCs) and National Oceanographic Data Centers (NODCs) based on the principle of “full and open
sharing.”
However, due to the increase of importance of real-time data exchange and the practical use of
the oceanographic assimilation model, together with the recent adoption of the data exchange policyby the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in the field of meteorology sharing theoceanographic and meteorological data, IOC was required to consider the international data exchange
policy responding to the times.
The IOC Executive Council decided in 2002 to establish the intergovernmental working group to
consider the IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy. The working group subsequently continued
the consideration, compiled the Draft IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy under the countries’
agreement in 2002 and submitted it to the Assembly.
The draft policy proposed to the Assembly comprised of a Preamble and six Clauses. Its
principle is the “timely, free and unrestricted” access to the oceanographic data by the Member States,
and a new concept of ‘timely’ exchange responds to the advanced information technology. In orderto ensure consistency with that the meteorological data exchange policy defined the oceanographic
and meteorological data as the kind of data included in the category putting no restrictions on theexchange, no regulations to put restrictions on the exchange were made. In the light of special
characteristics that some oceanographic data would take longer time to be analyzed, however, theregulations to protect the rights were made with the setting of the period of exclusive use by data
producers and other things in mind.
The draft policy was developed by the participation of the countries so that it was expected thatthe draft policy should be adopted by the Assembly without any argument. However, theamendments were submitted so that it was decided that the intersessional working group should be set
up to consider them.
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The intersessional working group with the participation of the representatives from many
countries was held twice. As a result, the Preamble and Clause 1 were partly amended. The
amendments were sent to the Assembly and approved by the countries so that the policy was adopted
as the Resolution-VI. In addition, the Assembly expressed its appreciation to Dr. McEwan, thechairperson of the intergovernmental working group and the intersessional working group, for hisenergetic work to compile the policy. The full text of the adopted IOC Oceanographic Data
Exchange Policy is given to the ‎Annex II.
The IODE Chairperson Dr. Rickard presented the report of the 17th session of IODE Committee
held in March 2003. In her report, Dr. Rickard started from the purpose and composition of the
IODE and summarized the recent achievements and future direction. The main point of the report
was that the IODE had traditionally been successful in the field of long-term data archive, especially
physical oceanographic data, and it would aim for the response to various data items including
chemical and biological data and the real-time data service responding to the recent progress of
information technology in the future. She also stated about the promotion of further cooperation with
the GOOS and JCOMM and the strengthening of the Capacity Building efforts that had traditionallybeen the pillar of the IODE. In addition, she proposed the establishment of the IODE Project Office
to promote the above–mentioned activities forward. 21 countries voiced their support for the
Chairman’s report.
This report was also adopted as the Resolution-VII, and the establishment of the IODE Project
Office in Oostende, Belgium, was approved.
The Assembly elected Dr. David Pugh from the U.K. as the new IOC Chairperson and adopted
the following 14 Resolutions.
1. Guidelines for the Establishment of Decentralized Offices
2. Feasibility of Establishing a Regular Process for the Assessment of the State of the Marine
Environment
3. Improved Governance of IOC Affairs within UNESCO
4. Review of the Structure of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
5. 6th Session of the IOC Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB)
6. IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy
7. International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)
8. 6th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
9. Memorandum of Understanding between ICES and IOC
10. 5th Session of IOC Regional Committee for the Co-operative Investigation in the North andCentral Western Indian Ocean (IOCINCWIO)
11. IOC Activities in the Caspian Sea Region
12. 3rd Meeting of the IOC Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (IOC/ABE-LOS-III)
13. A Strategy for the Use of Remote Sensing in Oceanography
14. Programme and Budget for 2004-2005

2.3. Report of the Final Meeting of the JGOFS NPTT/NPSG
The final meeting of the JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) NPTT (North Pacific Task
Team) / NPSG (North Pacific Synthesis Group) was held at the Hydrospheric Atmospheric ResearchCenter (HyARC) of the Nagoya University and in Mikawa Miya from November 10 to 12 in 2003.
Mr. Oichi from the JODC attended the meeting from 10 to noon of 11.
After the opening remarks in the first day morning, Dr. Feely and other researchers from various
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countries presented each country’s achievements in the JGOFS-related project in the North Pacific.
In the first day afternoon, there were the presentation and discussion about the JGOFS NPPS
dataset CD-ROM to be published by the JODC in March 2004. Dr. Oguma from the MIRC (Marine
Information Research Center) introduced the relevant Web page after the presentation of the masterplan by Mr. Baba from the Japan Coast Guard Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, andthere were many opinions on them.
First of all, the policy that should not rerecord from the existing dataset to avoid overlapping forthe range of containing data was strongly opposed, and there were many opinions that should containall the relevant data to make a valuable dataset regardless of its availability through the existing
CD-ROM or the Internet. Especially the data of the Oshoro-maru, WOCE (World Ocean Circulation
Experiment) and HOT (Hawaii Ocean Time-series) was requested to contain. In addition, especially
Feely’s data was decided to be contained as it was free to be contained.
Then, there were opinions about data processing, and the range of data processing work and its
expressions was decided to establish an editorial policy of the JGOFS NPPS (North Pacific Process
Study) dataset.
After the above-mentioned discussions, the initial schedule was changed to summarize the
JGOFS’s activities in the North Pacific. In addition, the future policy was actively discussed, and thefirst day of highly concentrated meeting was over.
In the mooning of November 11, Dr. Chen explained the cooperation system over the JGOFS
North Pacific and the major international projects, especially the large-scale joint project by the IGBP
(International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme), IHDP (International Human Dimensions
Programme on Global Environmental Change) and WCRP (World Climate Research Programme), andmade a detailed introduction of GCP (Global Carbon Project) that would be the core of the carbon
dioxide study in the future. Then, there were reports including scientific achievements. The
Chairman Bychkov concluded the meeting in Nagoya with his closing remarks at noon.

2.4. Visit to Korea Oceanographic Data Center
The Korea Oceanographic Data Center (KODC) was established in 1974 as the National
Oceanographic Data Center in the IOC/IODE. This visit in October 2002 was to understand thestatus of data management in the KODC and to make a closer cooperative relationship with the JODC
on oceanographic data and information exchange.
The KODC is placed in the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)
located at the east end of Pusan, Korea. The NFRDI consists of Fisheries Resources Department,
Aquaculture Department, Ocean and Marine Environment Department and Training Department aswell as 3 branch offices and 5 oceanographic research vessels. The Director of the Oceanography
Division, Ocean and Marine Environment Department hold a post concurrently as the Director of the
KODC.
The KODC covers the following information, data, etc.:● Cruise Summary Report (CSR)
Outlined cruise report by major oceanographic research organization● Oceanographic data
Water temperature, Salinity, Dissolved oxygen, Nutrients, Marine weather● Coastal fixed oceanographic data
Marine weather (including surface water temperature, atmospheric temperature, etc.)● Sea surface temperature distribution chart (NOAA-AVHRR)
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The fixed line observation data (22 observation lines, 175 observation points), coastal fixed
observation data, etc., are made public on the Internet and downloadable from the KODC’s homepage
for everyone’s use.
In addition to this, the KODC operates the North-East Asian Regional-Global Ocean Observing
System Delayed Mode DataBase (NEAR-GOOS DMDB) of Korea.
As for the Global
Oceanographic Data Archaeology & Rescue project in the Western Pacific region(GODAR-WESTPAC) that the countries surrounding the West Pacific promote with the JODC as the
project office, the digitalization of the paper-based water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen andzooplankton before 1961 possessed by the NFRDI is under way.
Lastly, the visit was concluded with the agreement on further mutual cooperative relationship andreinforcement of collaboration through the exchange of oceanographic data and information, thepromotion of the GODAR-WESTPAC, etc.

Korea’s Major Oceanographic Research Organizations
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries: MOMAF
National Fisheries Research and Development Institute: NFRDI(Korea Oceanographic Data Center: KODC)(operating NEAR-GOOS Delayed Mode DataBase)
National Oceanographic Research Institute: NORINational Maritime Police Agency: NMPA
Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute: KORDI(operating NEAR-GOOS Real Time DataBase)

2.5. Report of the 23rd IUGG General Assembly
The 23rd General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) was heldin Sapporo from June 30 to July 11, 2003, and was attended by over 5,000 researchers from about 100
countries.
The JODC participated in the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) session held on July 7
and 8 jointly hosted by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO),
International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)during the IUGG2003 and made a poster presentation on the outline and operational status of theRegional Delayed Mode Data Base (RDMDB: http://near-goos1.jodc.go.jp/) of the NEAR-GOOS(North-East Asian Regional-Global Ocean Observing System) and related JODC’s activities
concerning data management and provision, etc.
This session focused on the climate change study in the GOOS jointly promoted by the IOC andWorld Meteorological Organization (WMO), etc. A wide variety of many interesting presentations
were made including the assimilation implemented in the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment(GODAE), global ocean observation by the Argo, related observational technology and the processingof satellite data, etc. It was regrettable that so many researchers did not participated in the session,
because most of sessions on the physical oceanography were held in the first week of the Assembly.
As for the coastal module as another pillar of the GOOS, the session of the “Coastal Ocean
Observing System” was held to make presentations on advanced efforts of coastal observation systems
combined buoys, observation submarines and acoustic technology, etc. However, this session hadvery few participants so that it resulted in the situation in which only ten-odd people were listening to
the presentation in the large venue at the end of the oral presentation.
It was decided to hold the next General Assembly of IUGG in Perugia, Italy.
123. RNODC's Activities under the Charge of the JODC
3.1. RNODC for WESTPAC
3.1.1. Status of CSR and Data Management
The major activities of JODC are the collection and archiving of CSR (Cruise Summary Reportof IODE, ROSCOP's third edition), and data from the beginning of the WESTPAC program in 1979.
The terms of reference for RNODC-WESTPAC are shown in ‎Annex III.
The CSRs received by JODC in 2003 are shown in Table 1.
Number of Archived Data in the WEATPAC region is shown in Table 2.
The WESTPAC region was referred as from 100 to 180 degree of longitude for the North
Hemisphere and the area enclosed by from 110 to 230 degree of longitude and from 0 to 30 degree of
latitude in the South Hemisphere, here.
Table 1 Inventory of CSR Received by JODC in 2003
AGENCYSHIP

FF, NU
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
HMO, JMA
HMO, JMA
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IPEV
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
GEOAZUR
IRD
IRD
IRD
IRD
IFREMERENS
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
NFRDI
NFRDI

KAKUYO MARUTAMGU 3TAMGU 5TAMGU 8TAMGU 3
KOFU MARU
KOFU MARU
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ASTROLABE
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
NADIR
ALIS
ALIS
ALIS
ATALANTEATALANTE
NADIR
SHOYO
SHOYO
SHOYO
TAKUYOSHOYOTAKUYOSHOYO
KAIYO
TAMGU 3TAMGU 5AREA

PERIOD

North Pacific Ocean
East China Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Antarctic Ocean
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
Coral Sea
South Pacific Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Southwest Pacific Ocean
Northeast Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
North Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
Philippine Sea
North Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
North Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
East China Sea
Japan Sea

2002/11/07 - 2002/12/24
2002/10/08 - 2002/10/18
2002/10/17 - 2002/11/06
2002/10/09 - 2002/10/17
2002/12/23 - 2002/11/08
2002/10/04 - 2002/11/05
2002/11/19 - 2002/12/11
2001/03/29 - 2001/04/26
2001/06/19 - 2001/06/29
2001/08/16 - 2001/08/23
2001/09/19 - 2001/10/12
2001/11/06 - 2001/11/11
2001/12/03 - 2001/12/07
2001/10/20 - 2002/03/09
2001/03/02 - 2001/03/10
2001/03/12 - 2001/03/19
2001/05/28 - 2001/06/12
2001/08/27 - 2001/09/04
2001/09/07 - 2001/09/12
2001/10/22 - 2001/10/31
2001/11/19 - 2001/11/28
2000/09/06 - 2000/10/19
2000/03/22 - 2000/03/31
2000/04/13 - 2000/05/12
2000/10/07 - 2000/10/21
2000/02/29 - 2000/03/17
2000/02/29 - 2000/03/17
2000/06/09 - 2000/07/26
2002/06/27 - 2002/07/10
2002/09/11 - 2002/09/24
2002/10/28 - 2002/11/28
2002/11/21 - 2002/12/19
2002/12/09 - 2002/12/24
2003/01/10 - 2003/01/27
2002/08/09 - 2002/09/02
2002/10/20 - 2002/10/29
2002/12/03 - 2002/12/13
2002/12/14 - 2003/01/08

DATA TYPE
B,H
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M,P
B,D,H,M
B,D,H
B,G,H
B,D,G,H
B,G,H
B,H,P
D,G
H
B,D,G,H
B,H,P
B,G
B,D,H
D,G
B,D,G,H,M
B,G
G
B,D,G,H,P
D,H,M
G
D,G,H,M
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M

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AGENCY

SHIP

NFRDI
MFHS
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
TFHS
HMO, JMAINCHON 888
AICHI MARU
MEIYO
MEIYO
TAKUYO
MEIYO
MEIYO
KAIYO
KAIYO
KAIYO
KAIYO
MEIYO
KAIYO
MEIYO
ASHU MARU
KOFU MARU

ORI, UT
HOD, JCG
FF, NUFS, KUTANSEI MARUSHOYOKAKUYO MARUNAGASAKI MARU

FF, NUFF, NUUR
ORI, UT
ORI, UT
ORI, UT
HMO, JMA
HOD, JCG
RIAM, KU
FF, NUFF, NU
HOD, JCG
NIPR
HOD, JCG
FS, KU
RIAM, KU
FF, NUFF, NU
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
HOD, JCG
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI

NAGASAKI MARUNAGASAKI MARUNAGASAKI MARUTANSEI MARUTANSEI MARUTANSEI MARU
KOFU MARUSHOYOKAKUYO MARUKAKUYO MARUKAKUYO MARUSHOYOSHIRASETAKUYONAGASAKI MARUNAGASAKI MARUNAGASAKI MARUNAGASAKI MARUSHOYOTAKUYOTAKUYOTAMGU 3TAMGU 5TAMGU 8TAMGU 3TAMGU 3TAMGU 5TAMGU 8TAMGU 3TAMGU 5TAMGU 3TAMGU 3TAMGU 7TAMGU 7

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AREA

PERIOD

Yellow Sea
East Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean,Japan Sea
Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
East China Sea
North Pacific Ocean,
East China Sea
East China Sea
East China Sea
East China Sea
Northwest Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
East China Sea
Philippine Sea
Indian Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
East China Sea
East China Sea
East China Sea
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
East China Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
East China Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132

2002/12/03 - 2003/01/01
2003/01/-- - 2003/03/-2002/04/16 - 2002/05/01
2002/05/10 - 2002/05/27
2003/02/19 - 2003/03/09
2002/07/01 - 2002/07/15
2002/08/05 - 2002/08/13
2002/08/20 - 2002/08/28
2002/09/11 - 2002/09/19
2002/10/06 - 2002/10/15
2002/11/04 - 2002/11/12
2002/12/10 - 2002/12/19
2003/01/15 - 2003/01/22
2003/02/03 - 2003/02/14
2003/01/08 - 2003/03/20
2003/01/11 - 2003/03/03

B,D,H,M,P

2002/05/19 - 2002/05/30
2003/05/02 - 2003/05/19
2003/05/19 - 2003/05/27
2003/04/03 - 2003/04/18

B,H
B,G,H

2003/04/21 - 2003/04/25
2003/05/08 - 2003/05/16
2003/05/22 - 2003/06/09
2002/06/15 - 2002/06/22
2002/06/25 - 2002/07/02
2002/08/22 - 2002/08/27
2003/04/21 - 2003/05/29
2003/06/02 - 2003/06/05
2003/06/14 - 2003/07/04
2003/06/23 - 2003/06/25
2003/07/10 - 2003/07/21
2003/07/04 - 2003/07/28
2001/11/14 - 2002/04/13
2003/07/29 - 2003/08/08
2003/06/18 - 2003/07/04
2003/07/10 - 2003/07/20
2003/08/18 - 2003/09/06
2003/09/13 - 2003/10/04
2003/08/26 - 2003/09/24
2003/04/18 - 2003/05/06
2003/05/16 - 2003/06/03
2003/08/05 - 2003/08/13
2003/08/09 - 2003/08/20
2003/08/04 - 2003/08/14
2003/08/22 - 2003/08/25
2003/06/11 - 2003/06/17
2003/06/09 - 2003/06/17
2003/06/15 - 2003/06/21
2003/04/04 - 2003/04/25
2003/04/10 - 2003/04/25
2003/04/10 - 2003/04/16
2003/05/27 - 2003/06/05
2002/02/02 - 2002/02/07
2002/05/12 - 2002/05/17

DATA TYPE
B,D,H,M

B,H
D,G,H
B,G

B,D,H,M,P
G
D,H,M,P
B,D,H
B
G
D,H,P
D,H
G
D,H
B,H
B,D,H

B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
G,H,P
G,H,P

AGENCY
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NORI
NORI
NORI
NORI
NORI
NORI
NORI
NORI
NORI

SHIP
TAMGU 7TAMGU 7TAMGU 6TAMGU 6TAMGU 6TAMGU 6TAMGU 6TAMGU 6TAMGU 6TAMGU 11TAMGU 11TAMGU 11TAMGU 11TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 10TAMGU 10TAMGU 10TAMGU 10TAMGU 10TAMGU 16TAMGU 16TAMGU 16TAMGU 16TAMGU 2TAMGU 2TAMGU 2TAMGU 2TAMGU 15TAMGU 15TAMGU 15TAMGU 15TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 9TAMGU 1TAMGU 1TAMGU 1TAMGU 1HAE YANG 2000
BADARO 2
HAE YANG 2000
BADARO 3
NAMHAEROBADARO 3
DONGHAEROBADARO 3
HWANGHAERO

AREA
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
East China Sea
East China Sea
Marsden Square 132
Marsden Square 132
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea

PERIOD
2002/08/05 - 2002/08/10
2002/11/12 - 2002/11/18
2002/02/21 - 2002/02/25
2002/08/04 - 2002/08/08
2002/11/30 - 2002/12/12
2002/02/04 - 2002/02/17
2002/05/13 - 2002/05/22
2002/08/13 - 2002/08/22
2002/11/19 - 2002/11/29
2002/02/05 - 2002/02/08
2002/05/14 - 2002/05/18
2002/08/12 - 2002/08/14
2002/11/05 - 2002/11/08
2002/02/04 - 2002/02/08
2002/05/06 - 2002/05/10
2002/08/01 - 2002/08/04
2002/11/12 - 2002/11/15
2002/02/06 - 2002/02/08
2002/05/01 - 2002/05/03
2002/08/01 - 2002/08/02
2002/11/14 - 2002/11/15
2002/02/15 - 2002/02/16
2002/05/13 - 2002/05/14
2002/08/01 - 2002/08/02
2002/11/05 - 2002/11/06
2002/02/01 - 2002/02/07
2002/05/01 - 2002/05/07
2001/08/08 - 2001/08/14
2002/11/07 - 2002/11/14
2002/02/12 - 2002/02/17
2002/05/08 - 2002/05/11
2002/08/09 - 2002/08/12
2002/11/05 - 2002/11/10
2002/02/19 - 2002/02/22
2002/03/19 - 2002/03/22
2002/04/22 - 2002/04/25
2002/05/14 - 2002/05/17
2002/06/19 - 2002/06/22
2002/07/23 - 2002/07/26
2002/08/16 - 2002/08/18
2002/09/23 - 2002/09/26
2002/10/14 - 2002/10/17
2002/11/18 - 2002/11/21
2002/03/07 - 2002/03/26
2002/10/15 - 2002/11/02
2002/05/05 - 2002/07/25
2002/08/24 - 2002/09/28
2002/01/29 - 2002/02/28
2002/04/10 - 2002/05/05
2002/04/01 - 2002/10/26
2002/03/21 - 2002/05/05
2002/05/01 - 2002/08/15
2002/05/21 - 2002/07/05
2002/05/01 - 2002/08/31
2002/08/01 - 2002/09/14
2002/05/01 - 2002/09/30

DATA TYPE
H,P
G,H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
G,H,P
H,P
H,P
H,P
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,H
B,G,H,M
B,H
D,H,M
D,H,M
G
D,G
G
D
G
D
G

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AGENCY
NMPA
NMPA
NMPA
NMPA
NMPA
NMPA
NMPA
NMPA
KIGAM
KIGAM
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
KORDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
NFRDI
FF, NUSHIPTAMGU 8TAMGU 5
PREVENTION SHIP 19
PREVENTION SHIP 16
TAMGU 8TAMGU 5
PREVENTION SHIP 19
PREVENTION SHIP 16
TAMHAE 2
TAMHAE 2
Fishery Ship
Fishery Ship
EARDO
Fishery Ship
Fishery Ship
Fishery Ship
Fishery Ship
Fishery ShipYUZHMORGEOLOGIYA
Fishery ShipTAMGU 3TAMGU 5TAMGU 8TAMGU 1TAMGU 6NAGASAKI MARU

AREA
Yellow Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
Japan Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
Jinhae Bay
Gwangyang Bay
Japan Sea
Gwangyang Bay
Jinhae Bay
Gwangyang Bay
Jinhae Bay
Gwangyang Bay
Gwangyang Bay
Antarctic Ocean
Jinhae Bay
Gwangyang Bay
East China Sea
Japan Sea
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
Japan Sea
East China Sea

PERIOD
2002/01/31 - 2002/02/11
2002/02/20 - 2002/02/23
2002/05/06 - 2002/05/08
2002/05/14 - 2002/05/21
2002/08/06 - 2002/08/14
2002/08/17 - 2002/08/23
2002/11/19 - 2002/11/23
2002/11/22 - 2002/11/29
2002/05/13 - 2002/06/08
2002/04/09 - 2002/05/02
2002/01/29 - 2002/01/30
2002/02/18 - 2002/02/20
2002/03/15 - 2002/03/20
2002/04/22 - 2002/04/24
2002/05/01 - 2002/05/02
2002/06/25 - 2002/06/27
2002/08/26 - 2002/08/27
2002/08/27 - 2002/08/29
2002/10/23 - 2002/10/25
2002/11/21 - 2002/12/31
2002/11/26 - 2002/11/27
2002/12/17 - 2002/12/19
2003/02/06 - 2003/02/13
2003/02/13 - 2003/02/28
2003/02/07 - 2003/02/15
2003/02/15 - 2003/02/17
2002/05/03 - 2002/05/10
2003/10/17 - 2003/10/28

DATA TYPE
B,H,P
B,H,P
B,H,P
B,H,P
B,G,H,P
B,H,P
B,H,P
B,H,P
G
G
B,G,H
B,G,H,PG
B,G,H
B,D,G,H
B,G,H,P
B,G,H
B,G,H,P
B,G,H,P
B,G,H
B,G,H
B,G,H,P
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
B,D,H,M
H,P
B,H

Data Type Code
B: Biology & Fisheries
G: Geology & Geophysics
M: Meteorology

D: Physical Oceanography (Current)
H: Physical (Salinity & Temperature) & Chemical Oceanography
P: Contamination

Abbreviations of Agencies
Japan
HOD, JCG:
HMO, JMA:
NIPR:
ORI, UT:
FF, NU:FS, KU:
RIAM, KU:
UR:
MFHS:
TFHS:

Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard
Hakodate Marine Observatory, Japan Meteorological Agency
National Institute of Polar Research
Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University
Faculty of Science, Kyushu University
Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu Univ.
University of Ryukyus
Aichi Prefectural Miya Fishery High School
Tokushima Fisheries High School

NFRDI:NORI:NMPA:KORDI:KIGAM:

National Fisheries Research and Development InstituteNational Oceanographic Research InstituteNational Maritime Police Agency
Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources

IFREMER:
IRD:
IPEV:
ENS:
GEOAZUR:

Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Institut Polaire Francais Paul Emile Victor
Laboratoire de Geologie, l'Ecole Normale Superieure
Geosciences Azur, Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis

Korea

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Table 2 Number of Archived Data in the WESTPAC Region
YEAR

SD

STD

CTD

1979
7,203
47
2,499
1980
8,135
643
2,167
1981
6,796
120
2,824
1982
7,819
214
2,790
1983
7,896
368
3,913
1984
5,932
3
4,609
1985
5,386
463
5,544
1986
8,526
269
5,770
1987 10,091
231
6,970
1988 10,250
0
9,807
1989
8,946
0 10,487
1990
8,943
328 10,491
1991
6,061
0 13,559
1992
4,381
105 14,869
1993
3,416
119 13,195
1994
1,328
128
765
1995
1,171
0
254
1996
1,089
0
312
1997
1,206
0
778
1998
1,067
0
578
1999
856
0
318
2000
865
0
1,609
2001
841
0
1,584
2002
0
0
0
2003
0
0
0
Total 118,204 3,038 115,692

XCTD

XBT

DBT

AXBT

BT

GEK DRIFT

0
8,090
672
0 17,076 5,223
0 11,625 2,257
0 17,052 6,215
0
9,111 2,337 1,231 16,825 5,982
0 11,040 2,870
509 15,076 6,035
0 11,426 3,068
824 13,290 6,016
0 11,610 3,822
860 15,736 7,059
0 14,888 3,476 1,059 12,755 5,471
0 16,955 2,365 1,502 11,600 5,793
0 17,807 1,700 1,272 12,907 4,971
0 19,590
852 1,177
9,832 2,811
0 18,585
475 1,323
7,796 1,624
0 23,356 1,093 1,305
6,271
871
0 23,141 1,405 1,509
1,825
841
0 25,543
18 1,199
1,124
216
0 38,190 1,312 2,651
1,420
152
0 29,397
109 1,434
7,763
24
0 42,368
115 3,047
659
97
0 32,864
208 2,645
344
0
0
9,682
242 2,757
91
00 10,983
178 3,116
101
0
0
9,679
208 1,017
56
00 11,011
155
13
72
0
0 11,787
146 3,737
7
0
0
1,498
0
26
0
0
14
771
0
0
0
0
14 420,997 29,083 34,213 169,678 59,401

ADCP

unknown

118
0
186
0
215
0
52
0
109
0
68
0
85
1,943
29
6,198
4
6,590
248
11,140314
54,955311
67,386348
45,238227
51,713
20
78,6310
14,8240 301,056
0 831,511
0 607,834
0 574,192
0 496,561
063,4600000002,334 3,213,232

12,357
12,666
12,825
12,761
12,386
12,776
12,342
9,822
6,657
5,641
4,675
4,477
3,506
3,482
3,113
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
129,486

Data Items
SD:
Serial station Data
CTD: Conductivity, Temperature, Depth profiler
XBT: eXpendable BathyThermograph
AXBT: Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph
GEK: Geomagnetic ElectroKinetograph
ADCP: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

STD: Salinity, Temperature, Depth profiler
XCTD: eXpendable Conductivity, Temperature, Depth profiler
DBT: Digital memorial BathyThermographBT:
BathyThermograph
DRIFT: ship DRIFT

3.1.2. NEAR-GOOS RDMDBThe NEAR-GOOS (North-East Asia Regional – Global Ocean Observing System) has been
implemented as regional GOOS by Russia, China, Korea and Japan. The NEAR-GOOS RDMDB(Regional Delayed Mode Data Base) undertakes the final management of the oceanographic andmarine meteorological data of the NEAR-GOOS.
The JODC has managed and operated the RDMDB based on the Recommendation of the 1st
NEAR-GOOS Coordinating Committee held in 1996. The RDMDB started to operate as a DMDB in
October 1996 and was given the status of the RDMDB by the Recommendation of the 3rd
Coordinating Committee in August 1998, and at the same time the registration application procedure
was abolished to activate its use. In addition, the provision of data to the anonymous users using
guest account became possible based on the approval of the 7th NEAR-GOOS Coordinating
Committee in October 2002. Incidentally, the user name of guest account is guest@onetime.

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In the current system, each country’s NRTDB (National Real Time Data Base) is supposed tocollect data and send it to its own country’s NDMDB (National Delayed Mode Data Base) and theRRTDB (Regional Real Time Data Base) operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The
NDMDB independently collects the delayed mode data other than the data received from the NRTDB.
The RDMDB receives the data collected by each country’s NRTDB via the RRTDB and collects thedelayed mode data from other sources to provide data for the users with monthly update.
At first, the data to be registered in the DMDB were only 6 items, which were collected by the
RTDB via the GTS. With the items added every year, the data to be registered in the RDMDB today
are up to 32 items. Below is the main part of the data items:● Oceanographic data obtained by the Meteorological Agency via the GTS(BATHY, BUOY, SHIP, TESAC, TRACKOB)● Data converted into unified format by RRTDB(Water Temperature, Salinity, Wind)● Average water temperature data developed by the Meteorological Agency(Serial Station, Sea Surface)● Tide data with 30-second interval by the Japan Coast Guard● Water temperature data provided by the Russia Far Eastern Regional HydrometeorologicalResearch Institute● Water temperature data provided by the Japan Fisheries Information Service Center (JAFIC)● Water temperature data provided by the Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo● XBT observation data provided by the Tohoku University● Wave observation data provided by the Port and Airport Research Institute● Quality controlled data by the Canada Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS)(Water Temperature, Salinity)
The data registered in the RDMDB can be obtained through the Internet. The RDMDB data
provision system displays a list of data by item and by period so that data can easily be obtained only
by selecting the item on the screen. The URL of the RDMDB data provision system is given below.
http://near-goos1.jodc.go.jp/index.html
Archived data type and volume of NEAR-GOOS RDMDB is shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Data Type and Volume of NEAR-GOOS RDMDBTYPE OF DATABATHYBATHY_G
BUOY
BUOY_G
SHIP
SHIP_GTESACTESAC_G
TRACKOBTRACKOB_G
SUBST
SUBST_ERROR
TS
GLBTS
WIND
WIND_ERROR
WIND2

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DESCRIPTION OF DATA
Regional Datasets of BATHY Report
Global Datasets of BATHY Report
Regional Datasets of BUOY Report
Global Datasets of BUOY Report
Regional Datasets of SHIP Report
Global Datasets of SHIP Report
Regional Datasets of TESAC Report
Global Datasets of TESAC Report
Regional Datasets of TRACKOB Report
Global Datasets of TRACKOB Report
Subsurface Temperature Decode Result
Subsurface Temperature Decode Error Report
Temperature and Salinity Decode Result
Global Temperature and Salinity Decode ResultWind Data Decode ResultWind Data Decode Error ReportWind Data (Format Ver.2.0)

PERIOD
Jun,1996 Apr,2000 Jun,1996 Apr,2000 Jun,1996 Apr,2000 Sep,1998 Jan,1996 Jun,1996 Apr,2000 Jun,1997 Jun,1997 Jul,2001 Aug,2001 Jan,1998 Jan,1998 Jul,2001 -VOLUME(MB)
9.6
17.1
127.7
1,675.7129.7
1,055.3
11.1
99.2
0.6
6.8
337.5
4.6
208.4
2,776.8
90.1
1.0
50.6

TYPE OF DATAGLBWINDSSTANLDAILYSST(JMA)WNPSST(JMA)
GLBSST(JMA)
ADJSUBS(JMA)DESCRIPTION OF DATA
Global Wind Data Decode Result
Gridded Daily Sea Surface Temperature Datain the Northwest PacificDaily Sea Surface Temperature Data Analysis
10-day Mean Sea Surface Temperaturein the Northwest Pacific
Global Monthly Mean Sea Surface Temperature
Monthly Mean Subsurface Temperature
in Seas Around Japan (100m,200m,400m)

PERIODVOLUME(MB)Aug,2001 -710.8

Jun,1996 - May,2000

95.7

Apr,2000 -74.9

Apr,2000 -1.9

Apr,2000 -1.8

Mar,2000 -5.0

PACSUBS(JMA)

Monthly Mean Subsurface Temperature
in Pacific (100m,200m,400m)

Mar,2000 -8.6

SSDH(JMA)

Analyzed Sea Surface Dynamic Heightin the Pacific

Jan,2003 -41.7

SSHA(JMA)

Analyzed Sea Surface Height Anomalies
in the Pacific

Jan,2003 -41.7

SEA_ICESea Ice Concentrationin the Northeast Asia marginal Seas

Dec,2003 -

12.9

GTSPP

GTSPP Quality Controlled Subsurface Temperatureand Salinity Data Provided by MEDS

Jan,2003 -36.4

FERHRI ship

Marine Meteorological Onboard Observation Data
by FERHRI, Russia

Sep,1997 -3.7

FERHRI station

Marine Meteorological Observation Data
at the Station by FERHRI, Russia

Apr,2002 -

0.2

JAFIC

Sea Surface / Subsurface Temperature Data
from Japan Fisheries Information Service Center

Jul,1998 -33.1

PALACE

Subsurface Temperature Profile Data Observed
by PALACE Float of Ocean Research Institute,
University of Tokyo

Aug,1998 - Nov,2000

0.1

Nov,1999 - Sep,2000

0.1

Jan,2001 - Dec,2001

17.1

TOHOKU Univ.
NOWPHAS
30s_TIDESTXBT Data Observed by Tohoku University
Japanese Nationwide Coastal Wave Data
by Port and Airport Research Institute30-sec. Interval Sea Tide Data at Tidal Stationsof Japan Coast Guard

Total

Jan,1999 -3,599.2
11,286.7

3.1.3. Data Training Course
Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC) organizes the IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on
NEAR-GOOS Data Management every year, under the auspices of Japan-UNESCO Trust in Fund.
The objective of the training course is to provide personnel currently involved in oceanographic
data management in WESTPAC Member States based on concepts of the IODE system and its
function, NEAR-GOOS Real Time and Delayed Mode Database, and acquisition, processing andcompilation of oceanographic data. The 7th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on NEAR-GOOS DataManagement was held at JODC, 10 November - 21 November 2003. Seven persons participated in
the training course, from China, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Philippines, the Russian Federation,
Thailand, and Vietnam.
In this course, JODC invited lecturers from WDC for Oceanography, Ocean Research Institute
University of Tokyo, Japan Meteorological Agency, and Marine Information Research Center.
Dr. Sydney Levitus of WDC for Oceanography gave lectures on GODAR project, the relation
between the collected data and World Ocean Database (WOD), and global rise in water temperature
viewed from data analysis.
Participants list and Course programme of the training course are introduced in ‎Annex IV and ‎V.

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3.2. RNODC for IGOSSJODC has been acting as RNODC for IGOSS since September 1979 with the USA and Russia.
The terms of reference for RNODC-IGOSS are introduced in ‎Annex VI.
JODC receives BATHY/TESAC data through the GTS (Global Telecommunications System)from JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency), which is one of SOC (Specialized Oceanographic Center),and applies quality control procedures for final archiving.
KODC has regularly submitted the log form of IGOSS BATHY/TESAC, totally 294 sheets of thelog sheets were submitted by KODC in 2003. Data Holding Status is shown in Table 4 and Station
Plots are shown in Fig. 6-1 and Fig. 6-2.

Table 4 Data Holding Status of IGOSS BATHY/TESAC
YEAR
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Total

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BATHY
22,67725,47822,98026,07931,04440,301
32,24527,93330,02722,731
34,07135,05832,72133,90834,72237,993
20,772
19,70122,063
26,99826,44623,859629,807

TESAC
710
5,443
7,068
5,784
5,640
6,580
5,074
4,966
4,947
2,137
1,303
2,153
2,619
2,207
2,221
1,427
4,870
9,632
8,238
21,12624,20445,565
173,914

Fig. 6-1 Station Plots for BATHY

Fig. 6-2 Station Plots for TESAC

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3.3. RNODC for MARPOLMONIn response to a recommendation by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment(Stockholm, 1972), the IOC and WMO agreed to jointly undertake the design, planning, anddevelopment of a marine pollution-monitoring program.
As an initial step in this direction, a Pilot Project on Marine Pollution (Petroleum) Monitoring(MAPMOPP) was launched in 1975 within the framework of the Integrated Global Ocean Station
System (IGOSS) and was aimed at monitoring petroleum-derived oils.
Bearing in mind the recommendations of the IOC Scientific Committee for the Global
Investigation of Pollution in the Marine Environment adopted at its Sixth Session (Paris, 25
September - 1 October 1986) on the regional relevance to marine pollution management activities,RNODC for MARPOLMON have been established in Japan for the WESTPAC region, in the USA for
the Caribbean region, and in the Russian Federation for the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.
The terms of reference for RNODC-MARPOLMON are introduced in ‎Annex VII.
The major activities of the JODC are the collection and management of four types of data: oil
slicks, tar-ball, beach tar, and hydrocarbon, since 1975. Station Plots are shown in Fig. 7 and Data
holding status is shown in Table 5.
With regard to other type of Marine Pollution data, the present holding status of these data in
JODC is introduced in Table 6, and the Station Plots of the cadmium, lead and polychlorinatedbiphenyls data are indicated as Fig. 8-1, Fig. 8-2 and Fig. 8-3, respectively.

Fig. 7 Station Plots for Oil Slick22

Table 5 Number of Archived Data for MARPOLMON
YEAR
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
Total

BEACH
TAR

TAR
BALL

0
0
404
799
740
665
676
581
570
588
560
588
582
624
638
653
679
650
647
634
618
588
583
0
0
0
10
543
540
14,160HYDROCARBON

341
229
1,059
1,096
738
606
384
504
501
459
585
417
449
536
598
495
564
527
467
441
420
346
324
119
110
90
95
146
123
12,769

0
10
604
722
877
482
387
423
362
334
329
98
239
81
62
65
68
65
60
61
60
52
53
71
86
26
65
0
0
5,742

OIL
SLICK
0
1,493
16,712
16,236
19,683
22,58014,699
5,988
3,948
1,122
583
277
382
865
1,015
1,492
1,948
1,674
1,286
1,215
991
1,221
1,517
1,413
1,783
2,152
1
0
0
122,276

Table 6 Number of Data Related Marine Pollution
DATA TYPE
COD
NH4-N
Chlorophyll-a
Phaeophytin
TOC
HC

NUMBERDATA TYPE

1,945 PCB
3,777 As
97,912 Pb
19,339 Hg
1,025 Total-Hg
1,949 CdNUMBER
1,513
1,022
1,020
2,042
1,973
3,594

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Fig. 8-1 Station Plots for Cd Datain the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Fig. 8-2 Station Plots for Pb Data in
the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Fig. 8-3 Station Plots for PCB Datain the Northwest Pacific Ocean243.4. RNODC for ADCPThe JODC is RNODC for ADCP since 1991 and World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
Data Assembly Center (DAC) for Shipboard ADCP in cooperation with the University of Hawaii since
1995.
JODC and Univ. of Hawaii accepted the request from Dr. Howard Cattle, Director ofInternational CLIVAR Project Office to continue the activities of ADCP DAC for the Climate
Variability & Predictability (CLIVAR) project, World Climate Research Program (WCRP) after the
WOCE project finished.
The terms of reference for RNODC-ADCP are introduced in ‎Annex VIII.
The major activities of the JODC are the collection and archiving of data and the development of
the methodology of ADCP data management, plus development and usage of the ADCP data
management system on the database of the JODC. Data holding status is shown in Table 7 andStation Plots are shown in Fig. 9-1 and Fig. 9-2.
Table 7 Number of Archived Data for ADCP
YEAR
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
Total

NUMBER
3,545
3,024
4,945
13,572
61,28973,460

YEAR
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996

NUMBER
58,973103,309
128,053
49,660315,272
809,245

YEAR
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002

NUMBER
631,398
555,607498,242
236,496
140,895
56,1693,743,154

Fig. 9-1 Station Plots for ADCP Data in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean25

Fig. 9-2 Station Plots for ADCP Data in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

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ANNEX I.
Terms of Reference for IODE Regional Coordinator(Rev. November, 2000)●

Carry out actions targeted to strengthening co-operation in the area of marine and coastal
data and information management in the regions with a view to meeting the user needs
effectively. This includes advising the existing NODCs within the region on new
developments within the IODE system and helping to establish national data and information
management systems including NODCs in the countries where the infrastructure has not yet
been developed;● Promote communication and collaboration between the data and information centers in theregion, and exchange experiences with other regional coordinators;● Establish links with the IOCs and other relevant regional and global science and services
programs in order to be informed about on-going activities and keeping them informed of
IODE developments;● Liaise, at the regional level, with the relevant subsidiary bodies of IOC in order to promote
the IODE system, services, and products to the widest possible audience;● Support the efforts of the IODE Officers and the IOC Secretariat in implementing thefundraising process in the regions;

ANNEX II.
IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy(Rev. June, 2003)
Preamble
The timely, free and unrestricted international exchange of oceanographic data is essential for theefficient acquisition, integration and use of ocean observations gathered by the countries of the world
for a wide variety of purposes including the prediction of weather and climate, the operational
forecasting of the marine environment, the preservation of life, the mitigation of human-inducedchanges on the marine and coastal environment, as well as for the advancement of scientificunderstanding that makes this possible.

Recognizing the vital importance of these purposes to all humankind and the important role of
IOC and its programmes in this regard, the Member States of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission agree that the following clauses shall frame the IOC policy for the international exchangeof oceanographic data and its associated metadata.

Clause 1
Member States shall provide timely, free and unrestricted access to all data, associated metadataand products generated under the auspices of IOC programmes.

Clause 2
Member States are encouraged to provide timely, free and unrestricted access to relevant data and27

associated metadata from non-IOC programmes that are essential for application to the preservation oflife, beneficial public use and protection of the ocean environment, the forecasting of weather, theoperational forecasting of the marine environment, the monitoring and modeling of climate andsustainable development in the marine environment.

Clause 3
Member States are encouraged to provide timely, free and unrestricted access to oceanographic
data and associated metadata, as referred to in 1 and 2 above, for non-commercial use by the researchand education communities, provided that any products or results of such use shall be published in the
open literature without delay or restriction.

Clause 4
With the objective of encouraging the participation of governmental and non-governmental
marine data gathering bodies in international oceanographic data exchange and maximizing thecontribution of oceanographic data from all sources, this Policy acknowledges the right of Member
States and data originators to determine the terms of such exchange, in a manner consistent withinternational conventions, where applicable.

Clause 5
Member States shall, to the best practicable degree, use data centres linked to IODE’s NODC and
WDC network as long-term repositories for oceanographic data and associated metadata.
IOC programmes will cooperate with data contributors to ensure that data can be accepted into
the appropriate systems and can meet quality requirements.

Clause 6
Member States shall enhance the capacity in developing countries to obtain and manage
oceanographic data and information and assist them to benefit fully from the exchange ofoceanographic data, associated metadata and products. This shall be achieved through thenon-discriminatory transfer of technology and knowledge using appropriate means, including IOC’s
Training Education and Mutual Assistance (TEMA) programme and through other relevant IOC
programmes.

Definitions‘Free and unrestricted’ means non-discriminatory and without charge. “Without charge”, inthe context of this resolution means at no more than the cost of reproduction and delivery, withoutcharge for the data and products themselves.
‘Data’ consists of oceanographic observation data, derived data and grid fields.
‘Metadata’ is “data about data” describing the content, quality, condition, and othercharacteristics of data.
‘Non-commercial’ means not conducted for profit, cost-recovery or re-sale.
‘Timely’ in this context means the distribution of data and/or products, sufficiently rapidly to beof value for a given application.
‘Product’ means a value-added enhancement of data applied to a particular application.

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ANNEX III.
Terms of Reference for RNODC-WESTPAC(24 February 1979)●

Produce a work plan to define: i) the procedures of JODC in acquiring, processing,reformatting and archiving, distribution of data and inventory of research cruises in the
WESTPAC region with reference to the WDC system, and ii) the implementation of this work
plan;
● Provide a mechanism for registration of WESTPAC cruises with RNODC-WESTPAC;● Work closely with National Co-ordinators for IODE and any other national contact points
for data management within WESTPAC who might be appointed by Member States;● Publish a guide for WESTPAC data management for distribution to Member States throughnational contact points.

ANNEX IV.

Participants List of the 7th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course
●

●

●
●

●

●

●

Ms. Nanyan Huang
P.R. of China
National Marine Data and Information Service,
State Oceanic Administration
Mr. Muhamad Jafar Elly
Indonesia
Research Center for Oceanography,
Indonesian Institute of Science
Mr. Yong Huh
Rep. of Korea
National Oceanographic Research Institute
Mr. Rene G. Eclarino
Philippines
Coast and Geodetic Surveys Department,
National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
Mr. Vladimir Rostov
Russian Federation
Far Eastern Branch,
Pacific Oceanological Institute
Ms. Sirirat Boonsopa
ThailandHydrographic Department,
Royal Thai NavyDr. Dung Tran Tuan
VietnamNational Center for Natural Science and Technology,
Hanoi Institute of Oceanography

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ANNEX V.

Course Programme of the 7th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course
Monday, 10 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Opening Ceremony and Course Orientation
Lecture on Outline about IOC, WESTPAC, NEAR-GOOS and other Projects
by Mr. Satoshi Sato, JODC

Tuesday, 11 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Lecture on NEAR-GOOS Regional Real Time DataBase
by Mr. Takashi Yoshida, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
Study Visit to Japan Meteorological Agency
Special Lecture about GODAR
by Dr. Sydney Levitus, World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring

Wednesday, 12 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Study Visit to Argo International Workshop
Country Report(Introduction of Oceanographic Data Management in the Participant's Country)

Thursday, 13 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Lecture on CTD and BT Data Processing
by Mr. Taiji Imoto, JHOD
Study Visit to Survey Vessel TAKUYOFriday, 14 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Study Visit to National Research Institute of Fisheries Science (NRIFS)
Study Visit to Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC)

Monday, 17 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Lecture on Marine Chemical Data Processing
by Dr. Sachiko Oguma, Marine Information Research Center (MIRC)
Lecture on Marine Biological Data Processing
by Prof. Dr. Makoto Terazaki, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo

Tuesday, 18 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Lecture on Tidal Data Processing
by Mr. Tomotaka Ito, JHOD
Lecture on Ocean Current Data Processing
by Prof. Dr. Yutaka Michida, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo

Wednesday, 19 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

Lecture on Oceanographic Data and Information Management in JODC
by Mr. Yoshihiko Sugiyama and Mr. Tsuyoshi Chiba, JODC
Lecture on NEAR-GOOS Regional Delayed Mode DataBase
and JODC Data On-line Service System
by Mr. Yoshihiko Sugiyama, JODC
Practice in On-line Database and Ocean Data View

Thursday, 20 November 2003
Practice in Data Quality Control and Data Management with the IODE Resource Kit

Friday, 21 November 2003
Morning:
Afternoon:

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Course Evaluation and Closing Ceremony
Customized Special Study

ANNEX VI.
Terms of Reference for RNODC-IGOSS(September 1979)●

Acquire BATHY, TESAC datasets and sub-surface temperature data from drifting andmoored buoys from the IGOSS Specialized Oceanographic Center (SOC) for areas of
responsibility;● Apply supplementary quality controls to acquired data and provide services to users after 30days from receipt of that data;● Archive, and make available to users, selected data products from SOCs and analysis
centres;● Acquire non-operational BATHY, TESAC and sub-surface temperature data from driftingand moored buoys and/or datasets for areas of responsibility;● Apply quality controls to non-operational data, prepare integrated datasets and provide
services to users;● Provide for exchange of IGOSS data in GF-3 format with other RNODCs or to other users
as requested;● Maintain a database and inventories for areas of responsibility;● Prepare products based on operational and non-operational IGOSS data, as appropriate;● Transmit to the WDCs datasets in GF-3 format, inventories and selected data products;● Prepare summary and BATHY, TESAC and sub-surface temperature from drifting andmoored buoys database plots and transmit to the IOC Secretariat every 15 August and 15
February for data received during the previous 6 months;● Participate in efforts to monitor data flow;● Participate as feasible in IOC training programmes;● Provide for exchange of documentation and software regarding quality control andprocessing procedures, with other RNODCs as possible.

ANNEX VII.
Terms of Reference for RNODC-MARPOLMON(May 1987)
A. Referral
The RNODC-MARPOLMON will:● Provide a referral capacity to worldwide holdings of marine pollution data.

B. Access
The RNODC-MARPOLMON will be expected to demonstrate:● A capability and willingness to perform automated data processing functions for marine
pollution data;● A willingness to accept marine pollution data which may not be received in automated form,
and to convert the data to such a form;

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A capability for performing quality control (format and/or environmental) checks;
A capability to work with discipline-oriented codes (biological and chemical);A capability for converting marine pollution data to GF3 format or other internationallyrecognized format.

C. Products
The RNODC-MARPOLMON will:● Provide copies of processed data to World Data Centres A and B (Oceanography);● Provide machine listings and simple statistics of marine pollution data;● Produce graphics of marine pollution data, for use of concerned Member States.

D. Training
The RNODC-MARPOLMON will conduct formal or informal training sessions for data centre
personnel involved in the programme and who actively submit marine pollution data. Expenses oftrainees will not however, be borne by the RNODC concerned. Selection of trainees will be jointly
arranged by IOC and the RNODC.

ANNEX VIII.
Terms of Reference for RNODC-ADCP(27 June 1991)●

Compile, evaluate and keep updated information on existing datasets held by Member States
already active in ADCP measurements;● Produce, and keep updated a catalogue of ADCP users which will include information about
ADCP instruments, related instrumentation (GSP, Loran, measurement of ship motion, etc.),
procedures for averaging and sampling (temporal and spatial, vertical and horizontal), quality
control methods, formats and products;● In consultation with other NODCs, ICES and SCOR, establish and maintain standards andprocedures for the reduction, quality control, archiving, and exchange of ADCP data;● Assemble an archive of ADCP data received from other member states so as to assess theeffectiveness of the proposed standards and procedures;● Prepare guidelines concerning different performance characteristics and data documentation
relevant to each instrument type in order to formulate adequate data documentation and quality
control procedures;● Report on the progress of RNODC ADCP to the Group of Experts on RNODCs and Global
programs and to the IOC Committee on IODE.

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