NEAR-GOOS
An Operational
Demonstration of the
North-East Asian Regional GOOS
(Global Ocean Observing System).
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NEAR-GOOS An Operational
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What is
NEAR-GOOS? Report to the 1st GOOS Regional Forum (Athens, December 2002)
Operation of
NEAR-GOOS* PDF VERSION (36KB pdf document)
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The
NEAR-GOOS Coordinating CommitteeSummary Report of the First Session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee, Bangkok, 4-6 September 1996
Summary Report of the Second Session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee, Bangkok, 14-16 May 1997
Summary Report of the Third Session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee, Beijing, China, 3-6 August 1998
Summary Report of the Fourth Session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee, Tokyo, Japan, 28 September-1 October 1999 (103KB pdf file)
Summary Report of the Fifth Session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 7-8 December 2000
Summary Report of the Sixth Session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 31 August 2001
Capacity Building Activities :
NEAR-GOOS Training Course on Data Management For
Further Understanding : The NEAR-GOOS Data Exchange System for
Better Ocean Services by N. HASEGAWA, the former Regional RTDB Manager
NEAR (North-East Asian Regional)-GOOS is a regional pilot project of GOOS in the North-East Asian Region, implemented by China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation as a WESTPAC Activity. Oceanographic data and relevant products within the NEAR-GOOS system are open to all users free of cost.
NEAR-GOOS demonstrates the usefulness of a regional ocean observing system for the purpose of encouraging such efforts for the rest of the world as part of the strategy of GOOS.
NEAR-GOOS was established further to Draft Resolution 57 (DR.57) at the 27th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO in 1993. A detail of the planning is found in the Initial Phase of an Implementation Plan for North-East Asian Regional GOOS. More information on the Implementation Plan can be obtained through the GOOS Project Office in Paris.
The first aim of NEAR-GOOS is to share oceanographic data in real time via the Internet to support daily mapping of sea conditions in marginal seas bordered by NEAR-GOOS countries.
The goal of the NEAR-GOOS are as follows:
i) to improve ocean services in the region,
ii) to provide data and information useful in the mitigation of the effects of natural disasters caused by waves, storm surges, and sea ice,
iii) to increase the efficiency of fishing vessels,
iv) to provide information useful in pollution monitoring
v) to monitor parameters useful to mariculture, particularly with regards to harmful algal blooms,
vi) to provide information on the health of the coastal zone for recreation purposes,
vii) to provide data sets required for data assimilation, modeling and forecasting.
The NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee is established as a management body.
Oceanographic data within the NEAR-GOOS system are available free of cost to NEAR-GOOS users via the Internet. Also, NEAR-GOOS users are strongly encouraged to make their data available by sending them to the NEAR-GOOS Data Base.
An Operational Manual for the NEAR-GOOS Data Base defines, in detail, operation of the NEAR-GOOS data exchange system and user registration.
Each country establishes a National Real Time Data Base (RTDB) and a National Delayed Mode Data Base (DMDB) to collect all the available oceanographic data in the country, and to make them available to users. After 30 days of service from the National RTDB, the data are transferred to the National DMDB for long-term data archives.
Japan: Regional RTDB / Regional DMDB
The Regional RTDB is established to collect all the real time in situ observational data in the region from each National RTDB or directly from the data producers. The Regional RTDB is maintained by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for on-line access by NEAR-GOOS users via Internet. Data in the data base are kept for 30 days and then transferred to the Regional Delayed Mode Data Base.
The Regional DMDB also exists for archiving data. The Regional DMDB is maintainted by the Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC).
Initially, the following observations of oceanographic data are included in the NEAR-GOOS Data Base:
* Temperature, salinity, current and wind wave data which mainly come from the GTS (Global Telecommunication System).
* Oceanographic observations carried out by users in participating countries using moored buoys, drifting buoys, platforms, coastal stations, research vessels, voluntary observing ships and remote sensing data.
* User registration is required to access the NEAR-GOOS Data Base. NEAR-GOOS users are authorized not only to download data files from the RTDB server, but also to upload files to the server. The users are strongly encouraged to contribute their oceanographic data to NEAR-GOOS via the RTDB.
* Managers of the data base are assigned for the RTDB and DMDB. They are responsible for the day-to-day operation and management of the Data Base.
* The NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committtee is established as a management body. The Chairman of the Committee also serves as the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinator. See Terms of Reference of this Committee and composition.
They are responsible for the operation and management of the Data Bases, including data input to the Data Bases, registration of the users, monitoring of the RTDM and DMDB utilization, submission of periodical reports to the NEAR-GOOS Coordinating Committtee and provision of technical advises for further development of NEAR-GOOS.
However, the data base managers assume no responsibility whatsoever with regard to the use of the data bases and data. Nor will data base managers assume any responsibility for consequences arising from interruption of data base services due to trouble with, or maintenance of, the data base servers or related telecommunication circuit, etc.
The regional RTDB manager
Mr. Takashi YOSHIDA
Office of Marine Prediction
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
TOKYO 100-8122, Japan
Tel: 81-3-3212-8341 ext. 5128
Fax: 81-3-3211-3047
E-mail: tyoshida@met.kishou.go.jp
The regional DMDB manager
Mr. Satoshi Sato
Deputy Director
Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
5-3-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku
TOKYO 104-0045, Japan
Tel:81-3-3541-3818
Fax:81-3-3545-2885
E-mail: mail@jodc.go.jp
* China:
Dr WANG Hong
Director-General
National Marine Data and Information Services (NMDIS)
State Oceanic Administration (SOA)
93 Liuwei Road, Hedong District
Tianjin 300171, China
Tel: 86-22-2430-0872 ext 3713
Fax: 86-22-2430-4408
E-mail: hwang@netra.nmdis.gov.cn
Prof. YU Zhouwen
Director-General, National Marine Environment Forecasting Centre
State Oceanic Administration (SOA)
8 Dahuisi , Haidian District
Beijing 100081, China
Tel: 86-10-6217-3625
Fax 86-10-6217-3620
E-mail: yuzw@sun.ihep.ac.cn
* Japan:
Mr Satoshi SATO
Deputy Director, Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
5-3-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku
TOKYO 104-0045, Japan
Tel:81-3-3541-3818
Fax:81-3-3545-2885
E-mail: satoshi-satou-2@kaiho.mlit.go.jp
Mr. Takashi YOSHIDA
Office of Marine Prediction
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
TOKYO 100-8122, Japan
Tel: 81-3-3212-8341 ext. 5128
Fax: 81-3-3211-3047
E-mail: tyoshida@met.kishou.go.jp
* Republic of Korea:
Dr Hee-Dong JEONG
Korea Oceanographic Data Centre
National Fisheries Research and Development Institute
Shirang-ri, Kijang-up, Kijang-gun
Pusan 619-900
Republic of Korea
Tel: 82-51-720-2230
Fax: 82-51-720-2225
E-mail: hdjeong@haema.nfrda.re.kr
Dr Dong-Young LEE (Chairman)
Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI)
P.O. Box ANSAN 29
Seoul 425-600
Republic of Korea
Tel: 82-345-400-6341
Fax: 82-345-408-5823
E-mail: dylee@kordi.re.kr
* Russia:
Prof. Victor A. AKULICHEV
Director, Pacific Oceanological Institute
Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
43 Baltyskaya Street, 690041 Vladivostok
RUSSIA
Tel: 7-4232-311-400
Fax: 7-4232-312-573
E-mail: akulich@marine.febras.ru
Dr Evgeny KARASEV
Deputy-Director
Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI)
Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
24 Fontannaya Street
Vladivostok 690600
RUSSIA
Tel: 7-4232-267902
Fax: 7-4232-227754
E-mail: hydromet@online.ru
The Co-ordinating Committee shall have the following:
1. COMPOSITION:
The Committee shall consist of representatives of all Participating Countries. Each Country shall designate two members who should be able to monitor data flow to and from NEAR-GOOS Real Time Data Base and Delayed Mode Data Base. The Committee shall elect a Chairman among the members. The Chairman of the Co-ordinating Committee will serve as the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinator. The Committee shall meet to the extent possible in regular annual sessions at the expense of the participating countries. Other countries can attend the sessions as observers.
2. TERMS OF REFERENCE:
(a) Review the Implementation Plan of the NEAR-GOOS;
(b) Keep updating the Operation Manual for data exchange;
(c) Review the situation of access to and data reporting by the participating countries and others;
(d) Review the achievements of the NEAR-GOOS and report to the IOC Sub-Commission for WESTPAC and through the Sub-Commission to the participating Member States.
(e) Make necessary recommendations and to advise the participating countries;
(f) Review data and information infrastructure and allocation of observing platforms by the participating countries and advise on their improvements;
(g) Prepare an annual report of NEAR-GOOS for distribution to the Member States through IOC Regional Secretariat for WESTPAC. This report shall be retained in the data base for reference by the registered users.
Training for the WESTPAC countries is one important aspect for the NEAR-GOOS operation, considering new technology introduced for the NEAR-GOOS data flow and expansion of the NEAR-GOOS operational system to the entire WESTPAC area. At the first session of the NEAR-GOOS Co-ordinating Committee (Bangkok, September 1996), training activities in support of NEAR-GOOS were endorsed by the committee. Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC) was invited to organize a training course concerning on-line data exchange to strengthen the implementation of NEAR-GOOS.
Five training courses have been organized by JODC with the financial support of the Japanese Government, as well as assistance from Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo.
The first NEAR-GOOS training course was held on 13-24 October 1997 with seven participants from three countries (Republic of Korea, Russia and Vietnam).
Report of the 1st IOC/WESTPAC NEAR-GOOS Training Course on NEAR-GOOS Data Management
The second NEAR-GOOS training course was held on 12-23 October 1998 with six participants from four countries (China, Malaysia, Republic of Korea and Russia).
Report of the 2nd IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on NEAR-GOOS Data Management. (38KB pdf document)
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The third NEAR-GOOS training course was held from 24 January to 4 February 2000, with five participants from five countries (China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Russia and Vietnam).
Report of the 3rd IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on NEAR-GOOS Data Management (1793 KB pdf document)
The fourth NEAR-GOOS Training Course was held on 27 November-8 December 2000, with five participants from five countries (China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea and Russia)
Report of the 4th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on NEAR-GOOS Data Management (3471 KB Word document)
The fifth NEAR-GOOS Training Course was held on 5-16 November 2001, with six participants from six countries (China, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam).
Report of the 5th IOC/WESTPAC Training Course on NEAR-GOOS Data Management (under construction).
The sixth NEAR-GOOS Training Course will be held on 21 October - 1 November 2002. See IOC Circular Letter No.2024 (163 KB Word document)
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