Data Management for the Global Ocean Flux Study (GOFS)

正在实施的大型气候变化海洋学计划JGOFS(全球海洋通量研究)和WOCE(世界海洋循环实验)需要数据管理系统，这将使各种广泛分布的数据集的交换和合成成为可能。联合政府间气候变化框架(以及可能的其他方案，如世界气候变化大会和其他全球变化倡议)的数据管理系统方面取得了实质性进展，该系统：可在微型计算机和工作站上作为一个简单但灵活的数据库容易使用；将具有合并和处理数据集的共同数据库特征，并具有非共同但在科学上有用的特征，如对一个数据集进行内插；将是“可扩展的”，这意味着可以在不改变现有软件或操作的情况下随时增加新的特征或操作；可以很容易地用于通过网络从国内和国际的其他私人投资和数据档案导入数据；将对用户的数据施加最小的格式限制；并将为大型机器的用户提供通过网络从许多来源收集数据的简单程序，而不考虑发起者或最终用户的数据格式。此外，正在收集、编辑并将联合全球监测系统规划和综合工作中感兴趣的一些数据集放在网上。这部分工作除了其科学价值外，还提供了一些不同的数据集，用于测试和展示该系统的能力。目前的更新工作将完成该系统的开发和安装。

The large climate change oceanographic programs JGOFS (Global Ocean Flux Study) and WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment) now being implemented require data management systems which will make possible the exchange and synthesis of diverse and widely spread data sets. Substantial progress on a data management system for JGOFS (and potentially other programs such as WOCE and other global change initiative) which: can be easily used as a simple, but flexible, database on microcomputers and workstations; will have common database features for combining and manipulating data sets, and have non-common but scientifically useful features such as interpolating one data set against another; will be "extensible," meaning that new features or operations can be added at any time without requiring the alteration of existing software or operations; can be easily used to import data from other PI's and data archives, both national and international, over a network; will impose minimal format restrictions on user's data; and will give users of larger machines simple procedures for gathering data from many sources over networks without regard to the originator's or end user's data format. In addition, a number of data sets which will be of interest in JGOFS planning and synthesis work are being gathered, edited and placed on-line. This part of the effort, in addition to its scientific value, provides a number of diverse data sets for testing and demonstrating the capabilities of the system. This current renewal effort will complete the development and installation of this system.