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2006-2008
This Catalogue lists and describes data received as items of exchange by the World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring, during the period January 2006 - December 2008. For accession to all data available through WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring, please go to the US National Oceanographic Data Center’s World Ocean Database WODselect CATALOGUE OF DATA
HOW TO USE THE CATALOGUE OF DATACATALOGUE OF DATA NUMBERING SYSTEM
The catalogue numbering system uses groups of numbers and letters to designate identifying references for purposes of data archiving and retrieval. A catalogue number consists of numerals for the assigned: series, country, institution, ship and cruise. Series — The catalogue numbering system is divided into basic groups called series. At present, these consist of the 100 series for data from ships and other mobile platforms and the 200 series for data from shore and fixed stations in the following categories:
Country — All countries and institutions from which this Center has received data during this period are identified by discrete numbers. The series and two-digit country number comprise the first three digits of the catalogue number. Example: For country number 01, Argentina, data from ships and mobile platforms are catalogued as 101, and data from shore and fixed stations as 201. NOTE: The designations of countries used in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of this Center concerning the delineation of the territorial boundaries, the political subdivisions, or the legal status of any country or territory. Institution — An institution which contributed data, either directly or through its designated national agency or national, regional or specialized oceanographic data center, is assigned a decimal number following the series/country number. Example: The number 101.01 is assigned to data taken by ships and mobile platforms and received from the Argentine Servicio de Hidrografia Naval, and the number 201.01 is assigned to data taken at shore and fixed stations and received from the same institution. Ship — Each ship, or in some instances a group of ships operating together, is assigned a letter following the series/country/institution number. The letter is followed by a number assigned to the particular cruise as the data are received. Example: The first cruise data received from the Argentine Servicio de Hidrografia Naval are from the ship CAPITAN CANEPA, which is assigned the letter A, followed by the number 01, thus A-01; the second cruise is A-02, the third A-03, etc. Thus, the catalogue numbers 101.01 A-01, A-02, A-03, etc. NOTE: The term “cruise” is used in this catalogue to define, whenever possible, the beginning and ending dates of a series of data collected by a ship, usually identified by the contributing institution with a cruise name and/or number. Sometimes it is necessary to group several series of data from one or more ships together under one catalogue number. A similar system is used in the 200-series for ships but is not applied to lightvessels and fixed shore stations; for the latter the ship/cruise identifier is omitted. For these categories, the series/country/institution numbers are given, but the lightvessel’s or station’s name must be added instead of the ship/cruise number to complete the catalogue identification. back to top HOW TO USE THE CATALOGUE OF DATAEXPLANATION OF THE DATA INFORMATION SHEET
Data Information sheets list the data which have been received by this Center. The entries are described below. Countries are arranged in the sequence shown in the numerical list of countries. Data from each country are arranged in the sequence of catalogue numbers. The 200-series data sheets follow the last 100-series data sheet in the catalogue. Country/Catalogue Number — The series number and two digit number of the contributing country, as well as the identifying number for the data information, are given in this column. Details of this system are found in the Catalogue of Data Numbering System. The numbers corresponding to the country and institution portions of the Catalogue Number are found in the section that lists countries and contributing institutions. Country/Ship or Fixed Station — The country name, as well as the names of ships are printed in capital letters; lightvessels are identified by (LV) following the name. All other names not so designated are those of shore stations and other types of fixed platforms, such as lighthouses (LH) or offshore towers; names are reported as they appear with the data. Start Date/End Date — The dates during which the data were gathered are given in the order of day/month/year. In some instances, depending on the nature of the project, the dates indicate the beginning and ending of a cruise or expedition, while in others the dates indicate the first and last observations. For shore and fixed stations months and years only are usually given. Region — The region(s) of the World Ocean where observations were gathered. The areas listed are defined in “Limits of Oceans and Seas,” International Hydrographic Bureau, Special Publication No. 23, third edition, Monaco, 1953, with certain modifications as indicated in the IHB Regions section. Oceanographic Serial Stations : Number of Stations — The number of oceanographic serial stations (also referred to as hydrographic, hydrographical, hydrological and hydrochemical stations) at which serial measurements of temperature, salinity, and other chemical values are made, normally to depths of five meters or greater. Data to depths less than five meters are usually catalogued as Surface Observations. Physical and Chemical Data — All stations as a minimum have readings of both temperature and salinity, unless otherwise noted. The types of physical and chemical data, available at serial depths as observed values, are listed using the following symbols and abbreviations:
BT’s — The type and number of mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) or expendable bathythermograph (XBT) observations are indicated by:
Currents — The types and quantity of observations of surface and subsurface currents are indicated by:
Biological — The types of marine biological observations made and the number of stations and/or abundance of data are indicated by any of the following categories:
Meteorological — The presence of meteorological observations taken in conjunction with oceanographic data is indicated. These observations may include wind direction and speed, weather, temperature of the air, dry bulb or wet bulb, atmospheric pressure, clouds, visibility, humidity, dew point, precipitation, solar radiation, or radiosonde observations. Sea Surface — The types of sea surface observations and measurements taken are listed. In addition to the abbreviations and symbols listed for Physical and Chemical Data, the following are also used:
Data Center Reference Number — Data which have been processed at a national, regional, or responsible oceanographic data center, usually have been assigned some type of identifying reference number by that center. The availability of data in automated form is indicated by the initials of the data center followed by that center’s reference number. For example, machine-processed oceanographic station data for Reference Number 310863 of the National Oceanographic Data Center would appear as NODC 310863. Remarks — Any additional information included to further describe the data. Example: The Canadian station at Triple Island is identified as: 206.03 Triple Island . A shore station is listed under the country in or near whose territory it is located. If observations are carried out and the data contributed by an institution of another country, the observing country’s name and institution are listed after the name of the country of location. back to top IHB REGIONS
The identification of cruise locations is based on the IHB Regions as defined in “Limits of Oceans and Seas,” Special Publication No. 23 of the International Hydrographic Bureau, third edition, Monaco, 1953. To define the extensive areas of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans more specifically, the following subdivisions have been added:
IHB Regions Modified for WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring
World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver SpringNUMERICAL LIST OF COUNTRIES
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