Joint Archive for Lowered ADCP

The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) and the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) in collaboration with the E.Firing Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Laboratory at the University of Hawaii have established the Joint Archive for Lowered ADCP (JALADCP). The JALADCP is reponsible for the acquisition, review, documentation, archival, and distribution of lowered ADCP data sets. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) program has played a key role in motivating the development of the LADCP technology and scientific application. WOCE is also encouraging the archival of the data, with the lowered ADCP being incorporated into the WOCE Shipboard ADCP Data Assembly Center, a collaboration with the Japanese Oceanographic Data Center (JODC). The JALADCP strives to be the central global archive for lowered ADCP datasets, although the initial emphasis will be on WOCE. A WOCE-sponsored LADCP Archive Workshop was held 25-26 March, 2001 at NOAA/NODC SSMC to stimulate an archive plan and to define a suitable subset for the final WOCE CDROM dataset.

LADCP experts are strongly encouraged to send suggestions on the archive development, especially the metadata template (below).

Archive Development

Data Gateway (Sorry, not quite that far along)