At present, PMEL maintains more than 1.5 million individual data sets in the EPIC data base. This data is available on-line to researchers inside PMEL on the desktop and on the Web via PMEL's internal Intranet . Portions of the data are freely available outside PMEL via the World Wide Web . EPIC Data Sets Data types include CTD, XBT, bottle data, time series from moored instruments, shipboard ADCP data, drifting buoy data, and sea level data.
Data files are self-documenting and machine transportable.
Detailed information about how to create EPIC data filese are available including the EPIC implementation of the Unidata netCDF format. EPIC Database Management EPIC in-situ data residing on UNIX workstation disks can be managed with any SQL database system such as Ingres , mSQL , postgreSQL, or MySQL database. These applications communicate with back-end databases, making it easy and convenient for remote users as well as local users to access EPIC data. Refer to EPIC database page for detailed information about EPIC database management. EPIC Programs and Utilities EPIC system contains a full suite of routines provide graphical display, data analysis and calculation of oceanographic parameters, such as dynamic height, geostrophic velocity, potential density, statistics, spectral analysis, coherences, correlations, and EOFs.