Antarctic meteorology, sea ice, oceanography, etc' status and plans for data management at the Arcti

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Antarctic meteorology, sea ice, oceanography,
etc. status and plans for data management at
the Arctic and Arctic and Antarctic Research
Institute7th JCADM meeting, Brussels, 30 June
6 July

• Viktor Lagun , Vasily Smolyanitsky,
• Aleksandr Klepikov and
• Nikolai Antipov

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Some facts

• From 1999 carried out within the Federal
  Programme World Ocean, Antarctic Research and
  Investigation Sub-programme
• Sub-programme planned for 1999-2012
• More than 30 institutions involved from 8
  ministries including Rosgidromet and Russian
  Academy of Science
• Head institute AARI (several scientific
  departments oceanographic, meteorology, sea ice,
  polar geography, geophysics, WDC-B, etc. and RAE)
• 54 separate projects including
• Fundamental research (19)
• Scientific and applied investigations (8)
• Environmental monitoring (11)
• Environmental protection (8)
• Logistics (9)
• We are in a process of developing NADC, we still
  do not use DIFs for Antarctic (but do use for
  the Arctic !)
• Much information is now posted at internet
  http//www.aari.nw.ru/south

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Documents general and official documentation,
quarterly bulletin.
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descriptive information on active and inactive
Russian (Soviet) stations including geographical
description
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photographic material for each station, some
philately
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Contact persons science, logistics (Russian
Antarctic Expedition), data management, web.
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On-line access to meteorological, sea ice and
oceanographic (meta)data

• Stored in MySQL data base
• Search provided by SQL-server
• User interface written in ASP, JavaScript
• Browsing utilizes JavaScript, Java-class
• Further intention ArcIMS ? ArcGIS ?

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Meteorology1) extensive data catalogue of
Russian Antarctic Meteorological data .
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.including list of Russian (Soviet) Antarctic
stations, parameters observed.
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on-line access to stations data (monthly
averaged) and temporal graphs...
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2) Sea IceWMO project Global Digital Sea Ice
Data Bank (in-cooperation with USA NSIDC)

• We have two web-sites
• at AARI - http//www.aari.nw.ru/gdsidb
• At NSIDC http//nsidc.org/noaa/gdsidb
• Ice charts (total concentration and stages of ice
  development) stored in raster SIGRID (WMO, 1989)
  format
• Ice charts for Antarctic were submitted by two
  operative centers
• USA National Ice Center weekly charts for
  1973-1994), plans are for 1995-present moment
• Russian Federation 10-days ice charts for
  1971-1991
• Further intentions SIGRID-3, ASPect project
  shipborne data

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on-line access is provided to all ice charts as
GIFs images in user-friendly interface
NIC chart, double window
AARI ice chart
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on-line access is also provided to all original
ice charts in SIGRID format (via Java-class)
NIC ice chart
AARI ice chart
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some climatic statistics based on GDSIDB data.
Ice extent trend fron 1973
Multiannual statistics for the sea ice total
concentration for 1973-1991 upper left - robust
mean, upper right - interquartile range, lower
left - quantile 95, lower right - enthropy
values.
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3) Oceanography

• Presently on-line access to meta data on
  oceanographic observations (with complete QC)
  from AARI research vessels for 19562003
• Includes information for 3460 stations (date,
  coordinates, ships code, station number, depth,
  number of levels, parameters observed T, S, O2,
  NO3, NO2, P, Si, PH)
• Now stored in MySQL DB, SQL server links tabular
  interface with DB, search criteria are formed by
  the user
• Result is generated as ASCII .txt file
• Further intentions ArcIMS ?, ArcGIS ?

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.general view of tabular interface
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.different search criteria
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.future plans for oceanographyalso for
meteorology, sea ice et al under uniform software
umbrella

• We need to
• choose IS or GIS (?) for Antarctic web-portal
  for historical and operational meteorology,
  oceanography, sea ice possibly based on ArcIms,
  Oracle DB
• include other environmental parameters into IS
  biology, geology, geography
• start DIF description