SISMER SISMER Systèmes d’Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer French NODC Contribution to IODE and New Perspectives in the frame of the Operational Oceanography.

SISMERSISMER Systèmes d’Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer

French NODC

Contribution to IODE and New Perspectivesin the frame of the Operational Oceanography

prepared by Catherine MAILLARD1997-2000

Summary of the presentation

Context and History National Oceanographic Data Bank Projects Quality Assurance New developments for Real Time Data

Management Human Support and Facilities Conclusion, Perspectives, New Challenges for

Data Management

IFREMER

IFREMER (the French Institute of Research and Exploitation of the Sea), a public institute of industrial and commercial nature, created by a decree of 5 June 1984, is the only French body with an exclusively maritime vocation.

It is placed under the joint authority of the Ministries of Research and Technology, of Fisheries and Equipment and Transport.

Annual budget : one billion French Francs, 1700 executives, researchers, engineers, seamen, technicians

and administrative staff, 72 laboratories and research departments, located in 24 stations

and centres along the metropolitan coast and overseas, 7 vessels, 2 manned submersibles, equipped with scientific

instruments.

History of the Data Centre

SISMER (Systèmes d'Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer) was created in 1990, and since 1997 belongs to the Informatics and Marine Data Department (IDM) of IFREMER, the main French government research agency devoted to ocean research and exploitation.

SISMER is the Designated National Oceanographic Data Centre for France (French NODC) for the International Oceanographic Data Exchange programme (IODE) of UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, following the former Bureau National des Données Océaniques (BNDO). This national data banking activity dates from 1968, and covers the fields of marine physics, chemical, underway geophysics and general information on French oceanographic cruises and data sets.

SISMER contributes to data management structures of several national and international scientific projects, especially in the frame of the European MAST programme.

IFREMER IDM Department and Facilities Brest Services

RIC : network, archiving system and centralised facilities ISIB : information system engineering in Brest SISMER : data centre COM : Oceano-meteo services

Centralised Facilities in Brest Brest centre mainframe - RDBS & WWW servers Central archiving backup system Network Administration RDBS + GIS Software Administration

Distributed Facilies SUN UNIX Work stations DOS personal computers + Office software Software : MATLAB, Expert QC software, Loading/Extracting Data

CDROM engraving

MISSIONS

to design and operate scientific information systems and databases in the domain of the sea;

sets the standards of quality to be respected for data storage;

maintains an inventory of information systems and databases, the responsible scientists and rules for their availability;

represents IFREMER within national and international authorities concerned with the management of sea data;

provides training and transfer of knowledge within its field of competence.

National Data Banks and Projects

Catalogues - Meta-Databases MAST-EURONODIM - European cooperative network for oceanographic data &

information management

Geophysical Data Bank DORSALES/RIDGE

Physical and Chemical Data Bank MAST-MEDAR/MEDATLAS II MAST-MTP II/MATER MAST-OCTOPUS - Tomographie Acoustique MAST-ROBLINKS - Propagation Acoustique

Related with the (Pre-)Operational Oceanography TOGA/WOCE/CLIVAR/GTSPP MAST-MFSPP- Mediterranean Forecasting System MAREL CORIOLIS

Reference Data - Data Products from other data centres

MEDI/EDMED Data sets Summaries

Data sets dispersed in the French scientific community

236 data sets summaries from 86 laboratories or centres

National Geophysical Data Bank

Vertical Bathymetry : 353 Cruises Multibeam Bathymetry : 278 Cruises Gravity : 213 Cruises Magnetism : 256 Cruises imagery : 64 Cruises

Related Project : DORSALES-RIDGE

DORSALES-RIDGE

National Physical and Chemical Data Bank

CTD 17 005 + 2008 LR

Bottle Casts 36 026 Current Meter Time Series 1893 Thermistor Chain Time Series 131

Related Projects : MEDAR/MEDATLAS, MATER, OCTOPUS, ROBLINKS

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CTD

CourantosBo

MTPII-MATERMAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response(MAS3-CT96-0051)

Physics

VERTICAL PROFILES TIME SERIES

3013 CTD CTD TIME SERIE

572 XBT 21 THERMISTOR STRING

461 ADCP VERTICAL PROFILES 110 CURRENT METER

LAGRANGIAN FLOAT

Biochemistry

VERTICAL PROFILES TIME SERIES

1473 BOTTLES STATIONS 37 SEDIMENT TRAPS

269 BIOLOGICAL STATIONS

Other parameters :

meteorology, biology, model outputs

3 Regional Data Centres and an Animation Task

105 Oceanographic Cruises

126 Moorings

MAST- MEDAR/MEDATLASIIMediterranean Data Archaeology and Rescue of Temperature, Salinity and Bio-chemical Parameters

Collaborations and Scientific Advisers : GODAR Project - WDC-A, NODC-Croatia, DNA Tunisia, DNA Georgia

EUROGOOS, MEDGOOS, IODE Network

MEDAR/MEDATLAS II OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY

1. to complete the data-void areas in the Eastern and Southern parts of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea with new observations, through a wide co-operation of the Mediterranean countries; the core parameters identified as necessary to archive for the ecosystem following up and modelling are :

2. to make available comparable and compatible data sets of temperature, salinity and bio-chemical profiles issuing from different sources, by using a common protocol for formatting and quality checking based on the available preliminary knowledge of the core parameters distribution and the internationally agreed standards;

3. to prepare value added products including climatological gridded statistics and maps that will be useful for the understanding and modelling of the Mediterranean and Black Sea by using efficient and robust objective analysis techniques;

4. to extend the protocol for data qualification to each stage of the data processing;5. to facilitate the access to the archived data and enhance the data for various scientific,

educational, industrial and environmental needs, through electronic publishing on widely disseminated media and promotion.

Temperature Salinity Oxygen Nitrate Phosphate Alkalinity Nitrite Total P pH Ammonia Silicate H2S Total Nitrogen Chlorophyll-a

MFSPPMediterranean Forecasting Pilot Project (MAS3-CT98-0171)

1784 Xbt

Model predictions with Assimilation of RT in situ data from VOS, from multidisciplinary mooring in Aegean Sea, satellite and meteorological data

Loading and Extraction Tools

ON LINE Data Extraction Input interface

+ dedicated software for automatic file indexation

Publication Tools

Automatic edition of WWW Catalogues from RDBS : htql

Paperprint catalogues and Mailing Data products on Cdrom

data selection through several criterions including geographical areas

Data Dissemination

170 data request served by year about 100 information request by year Cruise catalogue and WWW server : about 200 hit /day

Customers : IFREMER 25% French public organisms (out of IFREMER) 40% private firms 5% Foreign organisms 30%

COASTAL MONITORING - MAREL

RT data freely available on WWW :•Seine estuary and offshore•Brest Bay•South-east Mediterranean coast (in development)

Global Subsurface Data Centre TOGA/WOCE/CLIVAR/GTSPP

French Component of International Data structures ARGO CLIVAR/GTSPP CORIOLIS/ARGO , MFSPP

623 548 profiles of temperature 1985-1998 (2000) - Mirror site with US-NODC/WDC-A + 1784 from MFSPP

Automatic and Visual QC WWW Interface to access data

CORIOLIS data center functions

Interopérability with argo

data basecatalogue - archive

gts

mailmailing lists

webfavorite medium

controldata quality control

technical monitoring of equipments

collectionmailinternetgtscd-rompaper...

disseminationpublic / private

productsgraphics and charts

statisticsanalyses

cd-romor other support

on request

quality insurance for exploitation hardware & software management - backup

Real Time T & TS profiles from PROVOR floats 448

Xbt & CTD from RV 284

argos

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CORIOLIS RT Data

PROVOR Profiler data & products availability

Reference Data

Gridded Climatologies ... (Levitus, MODB, MEDATLAS, Atlantique T. Reynaud)

Topographic Data(ETOP5, TOPO_2mn, Gravi_2mn, traits de cote, IGN)

Tide Predictions - SHOM Data products on CDroms & diskettes

received at SISMER Dissemination on Internet or Intranet

depending on copyright

FORMATS

Meta-data : RDBS Small-medium size files :

autodescriptive ASCII (MEDATLAS) Large volume files : NetCDF

Quality Assurance

QC0 : Check the format and the completeness of the informationQC1 : Check the location and dateQC2 : Check the data points

References - Standards CIEM-Marine Data Management working Group (CIEM) UNESCO/COI/IODE : International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange

QC1 Control of the location and Date - Data collected in station

QC1: Control of the location and Date - Time series on fixed mooring

QC2 - Control of the Data points

Current Objectives of Data Management

to insure perennial safeguarding, access and promotion of the national data holdings

to make available long time series of coherent and comparable observations of the same type

to contribute to a better exploitation of the oceanographic work among scientific, engineering educational and decision maker community

to have access to foreign data sets through data exchange

to assist the scientists in preparing projects

New Needs & Challenges

FURTHER NEEDS EXPRESSED BY THE USERS Access to multidisciplinary data, especially biochemical data Archives of large volumes Real time or near RT data

Convince the scientists to decrease the time lag between data collection and data submission to data centres - avoid to the data to become archaeological

Quality data to get compatibility and comparability within long times series

Preparation of data products : gridded fields, thematic databases ... DATA MANAGERS SHOULD IMPROVE THEIR EXPERTISE

for automatic data collection, Data Centres should take in charge part of the scientific validation

to prepare value added products easy to process by non-specialists NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

to get information on data availability to establish and develop standards - Reference Manuals to share the tasks during international projects