Data Management for the Global Ocean Flux Study (GOFS)

大型气候变化海洋学方案JGOFS（全球海洋 通量研究）和WOCE（世界海洋环流实验）目前正在 实施需要数据管理系统， 可能的交流和综合的多样性和广泛传播的 数据集。 数据管理系统取得实质性进展 JGOFS（以及潜在的其他程序，如WOCE和其他全球性的 变革倡议），其中：可以很容易地作为一个简单的，但 在微型计算机和工作站上建立灵活的数据库， 用于组合和操作数据集的通用数据库功能， 并具有不常见但在科学上有用的特征， 将一个数据集插入另一个数据集;将是“可扩展的”， 这意味着可以随时添加新的功能或操作 而不需要改变现有的软件或 操作;可以很容易地用于从其他PI导入数据， 网络上的国家和国际数据档案; 将对用户的数据施加最低限度的格式限制;以及 为大型机器的用户提供收集数据的简单程序 从网络上的许多来源，而不考虑始发者的 或最终用户的数据格式。 此外，一些数据集将是感兴趣的， 目前正在收集、编辑和分析联合全球森林问题论坛的规划和综合工作， 放在网上。 这一部分的努力，除了其 科学价值，提供了许多不同的数据集， 测试和演示系统的功能。 这 目前的更新工作将完成发展， 安装这个系统。

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.