Alaska Ocean Observing System Data Management

Affiliations

IOOS Services

AOOS is complying with IOOS data standards providing materials in consistent formats. Learn more at NOAA IOOS.

DAP - like OPenDAP it is a data transport architecture and protocol used for datasets. There are standards for encapsulating structured data and annotating the data with attributes plus adding semantics to describe the data.

SOS - Sensor Observation Service: a collection of the raw data in XML format that also includes information about the data in the same file (known as metadata.)

WMS - Web Map Service: a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS database

WCS - Web Coverage Service: provides an interface allowing requests for geographical coverages across the web using platform-independent calls. The coverages are objects (or images) in a geographical area, whereas the WMS interface or online mapping portals like Google Maps return only an image, which end-users cannot edit or spatially analyze.

KEEP US INFORMED

If you move where you are storing materials {external links} or change up team members tell the data management group so we may update this page.

Rob Campbell, nearshore moorings, Prince William Sound Science Center

Yi Chao, ROMS oceanic circulation model and data assimilation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, AEFF at UAA

Mark Halverson, CTD: SeaBird 16+, the Argosphere Surface drifters, the SVP drifters, subsurface moorings and hydrographic surveys, Prince William Sound Science Center

Mark Johnson, HF Radar, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Rick McClure, SnoTel Weather Stations, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Mark Moline, Remus-100 AUV and Solcum gliders, California Polytechnic State University

Carter Ohlmann, surface drifters, microstar drifters, SVP drifters, University of California Santa Barbara

Peter Olsson, WRF atmospheric circulation model, University of Alaska Anchorage

Vijay Panchang, SWAN wave model, Texas A&M University

Glen Watabayashi, NOAA GNOME project

Past Resources for 2004 and 2007

Prince William Sound Field Experiment submitted datasets. This is the old data and links to old materials that may not have been updated.

Title Source Data Format/Svc Metadata
      csv, txt, NetCDF, kmz, DAP, sos, wms, wcs  
Subsurface Moorings (ADCP) 2007 PWSSC data zip, RDI binary N/A
Meta data 2004+ PWSSC data N/A N/A
Foci Drifter data 2004 NOAA PMEL data N/A N/A
Gulf of Alaska CTD data 2004 NOAA PMEL
 data N/A N/A
PWS Hydrographic and Trajectory data 2004 PWSSC txt files N/A Metadata
PWS Surface Radar (radials/totals) SALMON path N/A N/A
RAMS 2004 AEFF Grid 2 (CI) path DAP N/A
RAMS 2004 - through 2008-06 AEFF Grid 3 (PWS) path DAP N/A
EPWS 2004 University of Miami path DAP N/A
AVHRR SST 2004 (1996, 1999, 2002-2008) AOOS Satellite Processing path DAP N/A
TSG 2006 Plots
TSG 2007 Plots		 Stephen Okkonen
 2006
2007		 png files N/A
PWS (TSG) Hydrographic CTD data PWSSC (a)
 path
 N/A Metadata
PWSSC (b April 2007) path N/A Metadata
PWSSC (c May 2007) path N/A Metadata
PWSSC (d June 2007) path N/A Metadata
PWSSC (e 2007) path N/A Metadata
PWSSC: Claude Belanger (f October 2007) path N/A Metadata & tsg files
Port San Juan Buoy/Mooring (2007-2009) PWSSC path N/A Metadata
QC'd Historical ADCP/Ocean Measurements (46060/46081 buoys) NDBC path N/A Metadata