OACES DATA MANAGEMENT

Principal Investigator: James C. Hendee
Collaborating scientist(s):
Betty Huss
Objective:
*Provide custom software for the at-sea merging of Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange System (OACES) oceanographic sample data
*Provide master database construction for OACES cruises
*Provide quality control procedures for OACES master data sets
*Provide modern Internet access methods for accessing and transferring OACES data sets
*Forward quality controlled data sets to the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
Rationale: A central collecting and organizing group is needed to handle the large numbers of files and their updates and corrections after OACES cruises. This group should also be responsible for ensuring that the data are forwarded to NODC so that other scientists may use the data in the future.
Method:
*Modern object-oriented programming, as well as conventional structured programming, techniques are used to construct custom software for the at-sea merging of data, for other database maintenance duties, and for quality control of data sets.
*Internet FTP accounts and an OACES Data Management World-Wide Web (WWW) Home Page were set up and are continuously maintained.
*A Data Manager attends OACES cruises whenever possible to ensure the correct merging and quality control of data sets.
Accomplishment: The OACES Data Mangement Group has successfully accomplished the objectives set forth above for the South Atlantic OACES cruises in 1991, the Equatorial Pacific cruises in 1992, the North Atlantic cruises in 1993, and is currently working with investigators on the Indian Ocean cruises this year.
Key reference:
Lantry, T., M.F. Lamb, J.C. Hendee, R. Wanninkhof, R.A. Feely, F.J. Millero, R. Byrne, E.T. Peltzer, D. Wilson, and G. Berberian, Chemical and hydrographic measurements from the Equatorial Pacific during boreal spring 1992, , 1995.

Forde, E.B., J.C. Hendee, and R. Wanninkhof, Hydrographic, carbon dioxide, nutrient, and productivity measurements from the South Atlantic during July and August of 1991, NOAA Data Report ERL AOML-24, 1994.

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