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Oceanographic data and information network in the Indian Ocean

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Title Oceanographic data and information network in the Indian Ocean
 
Creator Sarupria, J.S.
Reddy, G.V.
 
Description Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) committee on International Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) has developed a data center network by establishing 70 National Oceanographic Data centres (NODCs) in 70 IOC member states, 12 Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centres (RNODCs) and 3 World Data Centres (WDCs) for oceanographic data /information management and exchange. Regional data/information network in the Indian Ocean is being managed by 9 NODCs and 2 RNODCs and oceanographic research work is monitored by two IOC committees for the central and western Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO & IOCINCWIO). Enormous amount of oceanographic data / information have been generated by various research, academic, survey, and defense institutes at national level, in order to manage data /information, Department of Ocean Development (DOD) has established 13 National Marine Data Centres (NMDCs), in 1994 and a new autonomous centre called `Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services` (INCOIS), in 1999, under Ocean Information Services (OIS). Indian Oceanographic Data Centre (IODC) at NIO is one of them established in 1964 as National facility for oceanographic data & information management. IODC services was further elevated to RNODC for Indian Ocean by IOC/IODE in 1996. IODC holding oceanographic data for more than 70,000 stations collected during various expeditions /projects in the Indian Ocean since 1904. IODC has been developed 45 database tables for managing 36 oceanographic parameters. Historical hydrographic, chemical and Argo float profiles for the Indian ocean are available over the internet for operational research work IODC also developed value added data products such as Atlases, CDROMs, etc. An attempt is made to asses data/ information available in public domain. The result shows that more then 60% of oceanographic data/information is being available in public domain from oceanographic observational programs. The rest is either lost or partially available in publications The reasons are many for losing data /information, but these are mainly due to: (1) Data management component is missing in project proposal/ observational programs, (2) Observational programs are not well linked with data management activities, (3) There are communication gapes between data collectors (Scientists) and data managers and (4) Funding agencies are not monitoring data flow from data generating agencies to the national data centers / archives. Therefore, the national oceanographic data acquisition network is partially fail to trace/ monitor data flow effectively. To over come these problems and some suggestions for improvement data/information network are discuss in this communication.
 
Date 2008-06-06T10:14:10Z
2017-09-30T03:07:58Z
2008-06-06T10:14:10Z
2017-09-30T03:07:58Z
2004
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier Proceedings of the National Symposium METOC - 2004 on Emerging Trends in the Fields of Oceanography and Meteorology, Kochi, India; 5-6 Feb 2004.; 2004; 471-477
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7565
 
Language en
 
Relation National Symposium METOC - 2004 on Emerging Trends in the Fields of Oceanography and Meteorology; Kochi; India; 5-6 Feb 2004
NON-SCI
 
Publisher Kochi: School of Naval Oceanology and Meteorology, Southern Naval Command