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Reading List for Survey of Operational Oceanography Products

The half of knowledge, is knowing where to find knowledge

To take this course, you need to read these articles in the OceanTeacher Academy Digital Library; they are not in MDL.  You don't need to memorize anything, and you should focus only on the articles linked below.  The top-level structure of the Library is indicated just to help you understand the overall content.  Feel free to explore the entire resource (i.e. the 250 other articles) on your own time.  Ask your instructor if you have questions, or use the Digital Library's search function to find items of interest.  Quoted items are taken verbatim (or nearly so) from the Library.

• Marine Data Management - Main entry point for the library; you can navigate down to the articles, or use the direct links below.
  • General Marine Reference Shelf - "Resources describing or defining basic concepts and entities mentioned throughout OceanTeacher, including additional educational opportunities in selected topics."
  • Manipulation - Analysis - Display  - "Methods and tools to make usable analysis products from various available levels of "raw" data"
  • Marine Data Infrastructure - "The information technology, specifications and standards needed to understand and display reported parameter values and their descriptions."
    • Marine Data Format Types - Descriptions of 12 major types
      • Self-Describing Formats - HDF, NetCDF, BUFR, GRIB, etc.  (just glance at BUFR/GRIB subarticle; they're huge subjects of main interest to meteorologists)
    • General File-Naming Convention for Earth Science Datasets
  • Marine Data Quality Management - "The procedures, exercises and systems employed to insure the reliability and accuracy of marine data. QM is usually considered to consist of the two phases Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC)."
  • Marine Data Transmission and Product Distribution Systems - "Technology (and systems) developed for global electronic publication of data, analysis products and model simulations of the marine domain"
    • Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP)
      • Live Access Server (LAS) - The main client in use for many OPeNDAP data services
    • World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Systems - Include GTS, WIS, WIGOS and GMDSS
      • JCOMM Pilot Project for WIGOS
  • Marine Data and Products - "The activities and entities who make marine (and related) measurements to publish them in the form of datasets and/or derived products, and the publications, archives and online facilities where they can be found"
    • Data Websites and Catalogs
      • Marine Data Gateway - About 20 of the best high-level catalogs
        • Marine Operational Data Websites - Big list of the best OpOc source sites
• Real-World Projects
  • Argo - Argo is a globalarray of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures thetemperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean.  Please just look over the very top level material for a general idea of what this program provides, and how many floats are the goal.
  • GTSPP - The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program.  Just read over the top-level material.
  • JCOMM - Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, to respond to interdisciplinary requirements for met/ocean observations, data management and service products.