Oceanographic Research and Data Management in Japan

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GODAR-WESTPAC Workshop March 5 7, 2002
Oceanographic Research Data Management in Japan
Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
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JODC ACTIVITIES
Since its establishment (1965), JODC has been
fulfilling the role as the synthetic data bank of
Japan as the representative of Japan in the IODE
system

• Information Management
• - National Oceanographic Programmes (NOP)
• - Cruise Summary Report (CSR)
• - Instruments Fixed on the Seabed
• Data Management
• Collection, Archive and exchange
• International Activities
• RNODC for WESTPAC, NEAR-GOOS,
• WOCE/ADCP-DAC, JGOFS/DMO, etc.

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Marine Research Organizationsin Japan

• Japan Coast Guard
• Japan Meteorological Agency
• Fisheries Agency and Fisheries Experimental
  Stations
• Defense Agency
• Ministry of Environment
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
  and Technology
• Geographical Survey Institute
• Universities

About 150 organizations 160
research vessels 900 research cruises/year
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Regular Observation Lines
900 cruises / year
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Data Holding at JODC
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Serial Station Data
330,000 stn.
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XBT Data
98,900 stns.
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CTD/STD Data
105,000 stns.
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Distribution of Temperature Data
105,000 stns.
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Distribution of Salinity Data
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Distribution of Current Data
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Historical Data provided from Domestic
Organizations
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Distribution Map obtainedby Hokkaido University
7,496 stn, 1957-1994
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Distribution Map provided from Tohoku National
Fisheries Research Institute
Zooplankton biomass ( wet weight)
Distribution of sampling stations
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Other Activities related GODAR in Japan

• JODC
• investigating the un-digital data
  observed by the
• Imperial Navy before 1945.
• Japan Meteorological Agency
• The Kobe Collection Dataset (CD-ROM)
• National Research Institute of Fisheries Science
• carrying out the digitalization of
  historical marine data
• from 2001.

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