Operation of a Hydrographic Data Office at UCSD/SIO, 2019-2023

该项目将继续运作加州大学圣地亚哥分校斯克里普斯海洋研究所的CLIVAR和碳水文数据办公室(CCHDO)，该研究所以前由美国国家科学基金会资助。CCHDO的主要任务是向用户提供尽可能高质量的全球电导率-温度-深度(CTD)和水文数据。这些数据是几十年来对世界各地过去和现在的多个项目观察的结果。该项目将加强研究基础设施，广泛传播成果，并将研究与教育结合起来。虽然CCHDO不会产生新的数据，但它提高了数据质量、可用性和可及性，从而扩大了数据的覆盖范围及其科学和社会相关性。CTD、常规水文学、海洋碳和示踪剂海洋剖面数据被收集、质量控制，并以标准化格式放在一个网站上，以便这些数据可供研究、教育和更广泛的社区中不雇用数据专家的更广泛的受众使用。CCHDO体现了海洋数据属于社区，应该为社区提供的基本概念。CCHDO直接促进具有高度社会重要性的研究，例如海洋对气候变化的反应和作用。CCHDO为教育和STEM活动做出贡献，包括培训本科生研究助理和加强其经验的海洋方面，CCHDO领导参加STEM和圣地亚哥地区的职业日活动。对扩大代表不足群体的参与的承诺延伸到CCHDO的各个方面。CCHDO对最高质量的CTD、水文、碳和示踪水柱数据进行精心的整理和传播。CCHDO支持气候和海洋碳科学项目，是物理气候/二氧化碳系统全球观测系统的重要组成部分。它是CTD和水样剖面数据和相关文件的官方国际Go-Ship数据中心。此外，CCHDO还负责WOCE、CLIVAR、国际海洋碳协调项目和其他海洋研究项目的数据。开发了CCHDO面向用户的数据管理结构和功能，以汇集和核实来自不同、不同来源的数据和信息，按照社区商定的标准将数据置于近乎一致的步骤中，并组织文件，使有关数据的信息完整且易于查找。CCHDO数据的用户从CCHDO的活动中受益，使他们不必执行这些耗时、需要专业知识的任务。因此，这种“数据集合中心”结构有助于获得更广泛的科学理解，远远超出了从单个数据集获得的收集和解释。CCHDO确保这些数据及其相关文件随时可供研究和教育使用，可通过直观和知名的在线搜索和下载网站轻松访问，可用于各种应用程序，并迅速提供给NOAA的NCEI用于长期存档。这确保了这些数据对科学界具有最大的效用和更长的服务寿命。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The project is to continue to operate the CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO) at the UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography funded by NSF previously. The CCHDO's primary mission is to deliver the highest possible quality global Conductivity-Temperature- Depth (CTD) and hydrographic data to users. These data are a product of decades of observations from multiple programs, past and present, around the world. The project will enhance research infrastructure, disseminate results broadly, and integrate research and education. While the CCHDO does not generate new data, it improves data quality, usability, and accessibility, thus widening the reach of the data and its scientific and social relevance. CTD, routine hydrography, ocean carbon, and tracer ocean profile data are gathered, quality controlled, and put in a standardized format all located on one website so that the data is usable to a much wider audience in the research, educational, and broader communities who do not employ data specialists. The CCHDO puts into play the fundamental concept that ocean data belongs to the community, and should be available to the community. The CCHDO directly contributes to research of high societal importance, such as the ocean's response to and role in climate change. The CCHDO contributes to education and STEM activities, including training of undergraduate research assistants and enhancing the oceanographic aspects of their experience, and participation of the CCHDO leadership in STEM and Career Day events in the San Diego area. Commitment to broadening the participation of underrepresented groups extends to every aspect of the CCHDO.The CCHDO performs meticulous curation and dissemination of the highest quality CTD, hydrographic, carbon and tracer water column data. The CCHDO supports climate and ocean carbon science programs, and is a critical component of a global observing system for the physical climate/CO2 system. It is the official international GO-SHIP data center for CTD and water sample profile data and related documentation. In addition, the CCHDO is responsible for data from WOCE, CLIVAR, the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, and other oceanographic research programs. The CCHDO's user-oriented data management structure and functions were developed to pull together and verify data and information from diverse, disparate sources, placing the data into near lock-step agreement with community-agreed standards, and organize the documentation to make information about the data complete and easy to locate. The users of CCHDO data benefit from the CCHDO's activities, saving them from performing these time-consuming, expertise needing tasks. This "data assembly center" structure thus facilitates gaining broader scientific understanding well beyond the collection and interpretation that can be gained from individual data sets. The CCHDO assures that these data and their associated documentation are readily available for immediate research and education uses, easily accessible through an intuitive and well known online search and download site, can be used in a variety of applications, and are promptly provided to NOAA's NCEI for long-term archive. This ensures that these data have maximum utility to the scientific community and a long service life.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.