The World Ocean Database Programme (WODP): Openly, Discoverable, Accessible, Adaptable, and Comprehensive Digital Global Profile Oceanographic Data of Known Quality

The World Ocean Database Programme (WODP): Openly, Discoverable, Accessible, Adaptable, and Comprehensive Digital Global Profile Oceanographic Data of Known Quality

The World Ocean Database Programme (WODP): Openly, Discoverable, Accessible, Adaptable, and Comprehensive Digital Global Profile Oceanographic Data of Known Quality 800 266 Ocean Decade

Lead institution:

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – United States of America (USA)

Countries need access to oceanographic profile data of known quality to address current and emergent scientific and socio-economic issues at all spatial and temporal scales.

The challenge is that data users cannot access the immense and growing globally distributed data that exists in diverse digital formats. The World Ocean Database (WOD) mitigates this challenge. WOD is the world largest unrestricted, uniformly formatted, quality-controlled, digital ocean profile database available with data from 1778 to present.

WOD acquires and receives ocean data worldwide for ocean Climate Essential Variables (EOV), plankton, and other variables including data from the World Data Service for Oceanography; part of the World Data System. WOD is hosted at NOAA and it is a project of the International Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee (IOC).

WOD is a Center for Marine Meteorology and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOC) in the Marine Climate Data System; a joint system of IOC and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In partnership with IODE, NOAA proposes to develop and deploy a data ingestion tool at the IODE project office in Belgium together with Cloud services as a starting point.

This effort builds on IODE’s Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) and will enable National Oceanographic Data Centers worldwide and other digital repositories to (i) upload their oceanographic data into WOD and (ii) retrieve data in an uniform interoperable format; a value-added proposition. The vision is to achieve openly discoverable, accessible, and adaptable digital profile oceanographic data of known quality.

Start Date: 6/1/2021
End Date: 1/1/2023

Lead Contact: Hernan Garcia (hernan.garcia@noaa.gov)

challenges: Create a digital representation of the ocean, Develop a sustainable and equitable ocean economy, Protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity, Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change
ocean_basins: Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean
type_of_action: Contribution

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