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| Title: | Manual on international oceanographic data exchange |
| Authors: | IOC |
| Corporate Author: | UNESCO |
| Issue Date: | 1965 |
| Series: | IOC Manual and Guides, |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this manual (see Part I), is to assemble
in convenientform forthe guidance and use
of practising oceanographers the various documents
concerned with the assembly and disssemination
of oceanographic data of all kinds. The full and
expeditious exchange of data is the core of meaningful
scientific co-operation. Investigatioqs of
phenomena and processes of global dimensions,
such as those occurring in the ocean and atmosphere,
are particularly dependent on the pooling of
data from various sources.
on a regional basis has been operated successfully
for many years by the International Council for the
Exploration of the Sea. The programme of the International
Geophysical Year made necessary the
creation of a world-wide system. Thus WorldData
Centres A and B (Oceanography) were established
in Washington and Moscow, their operations being
financed by the United States and the USSR. These
centres, together with those in other disciplines,
are responsible to the International Geophysical
Committee (CIG) of the International Couscil of
Scientific Unions (see Appendix I to the manual).
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
has produced a "Provisional Guide for Exchange
of Oceanographic Data" (Part I1 of this
manual). While the terms of the ProvisionalGuide
are Voluntary, it should be recognized that order
is necessary in such a rapidly expanding science if
the full advantages of this expansion are to be widely
A system for exchanging oceanographic data
realized in the most efficient way. Approximate
time limits as well as methods for the submission
of the various kinds of data remain therefore a
feature of the revised Guide, although a less exacting
one than before.
The "Provisional Guide for Exchange of Oceanographic
Data" is supplemented in this manual
by recommendations of the IOC Working Group on
Oceanographic Data Exchange (Part 111) adopted in
January 1964 and approved by the Commission at
its,third session. These recommendations give details
which are not conveniently included in the Provisional
Guide itself.
World Data Centres will in due course receive
oceanographic data, in accordance with the Provisional
Guide for declared national, or international
oceanographic programmes. Such programmes
entail an obligation to send data to the W D C s . Data
can be sent to WDCs by laboratories or other data
centres. Part IV of the manual is a list of existing
or projected national oceanographic data centres or
other designated national agencies, with their addresses,
methods of working, and, where applicable,
the services offered by each to data contributors
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The oceanographic data exchange system exists
to facilitate the prosecution of marine research.
Its success depends on the support of oceanographers,
their supply and use of oceanographic data,
and their suggestions for making the system responsive
to their needs. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/2627 |
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