Data Management for the Global Ocean Flux Study (GOFS)

目前正在实施的大型气候变化海洋学项目JGOFS（全球海洋通量研究）和WOCE（世界海洋环流实验）需要数据管理系统，使各种广泛传播的数据集的交换和综合成为可能。JGOFS（可能还有其他方案，如WOCE和其他全球变化倡议）的数据管理系统取得重大进展，该系统可作为微型计算机和工作站上的简单而灵活的数据库；将具有用于组合和操作数据集的通用数据库特征，并具有非通用但在科学上有用的特征，例如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，而无需更改现有的软件或操作；可以很容易地通过网络从其他PI和数据档案中导入数据，无论是国内的还是国际的；将对用户数据施加最小的格式限制；并且将为大型机器的用户提供简单的程序，使他们可以通过网络从许多来源收集数据，而不必考虑发起者或最终用户的数据格式。此外，正在收集、编辑和联机若干数据集，这些数据集将对联合目标系统的规划和综合工作有意义。这部分工作，除了它的科学价值之外，还为测试和演示系统的能力提供了许多不同的数据集。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.