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AN: OS31A-0568    [Abstracts]
TI: The CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office at UCSD/SIO
AU: * Diggs, S C
EM: cchdo@ucsd.edu
AF: UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0214 United States
AU: Swift, J H
EM: jswift@ucsd.edu
AF: UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0214 United States
AU: Kinkade, D B
EM: cchdo@ucsd.edu
AF: UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0214 United States
AU: Kappa, J L
EM: cchdo@ucsd.edu
AF: UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0214 United States
AB: At the CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) at the UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, also known as the WOCE Hydrographic Program Office (WHPO), the CTD, hydrographic, and tracer data used in large scale ocean circulation studies are brought together, verified, corrected for content and format errors, assembled with relevant documentation, and carefully prepared for dissemination and archive. In addition the CCHDO/WHPO works to promote appropriate methodology, applicable community standards, communications, and data compatibility. The WHPO at UCSD/SIO supported these functions for WOCE Hydrographic Program data from 1997-present. The office, with the new name CCHDO, has been invited to continue these functions for CLIVAR hydrography, global ocean carbon hydrography, and similar programs which make use of high quality ocean profile data. Data of the type dealt with by the CCHDO/WHPO are created by >100 data originators worldwide, sometimes 5 or more contributing to one file. All data users must cope with the temporal-, content-, and format-related file diversity these different originators engender. It is the enormous advantage of bringing data sets together to a common content and readability standard that remains the strongest rationale for the CCHDO/WHPO, with the principal additional advantage that the documentation associated with the data are collected, reorganized to a common standard (where possible), and preserved with the data. The CCHDO/WHPO disseminates data via the internet and on CD-ROMs and data DVDs. It also provides its total public holdings, including documentation, to NODC/WDC-A for archive and further distribution. Preliminary CTD/hydrographic/carbon/tracer data from the 2003-2004 cruises for the US Global Ocean Carbon and Repeat Hydrography program are already on line and available from the CCHDO.
DE: 4215 Climate and interannual variability (3309)
DE: 4294 Instruments and techniques
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting