INFORMATION SHEET ON NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE SPAIN

Name of Centre:
Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, Centro de Datos

Address:
IEODC
Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia
C/ Corazon de Maria 8
28002 Madrid
Spain

Communication:
Telephone: +34 1 347 36 12
Fax: +34 1 413 55 97
Web page: www.ieo.es/ieo
Internet: mjesus.garcia@md.ieo.es

Contact person:
Maria Jesus Garcia

Background and role:
The Spanish Institute of Oceanography Data Centre (IEODC) was established in 1968 and it is responsible for archiving and distributing the data produced by the different research areas of the Institute. It acts as the Spanish representative at the international data exchange, and operates within the network of the national oceanographic data centres established by the IOC.

The IEODC freely exchanges its data with other national centres on the basis of bilateral agreements, but holds the right to charge marginal costs to other users (e.g. copy, material and postal expenses). The availablility of recent data is restricted and is subject to the authorisation of the scientists who were responsible for the collection and reports thereof.

National activities:

• Inventories: Cruises, Moored current meters and sea level
  
• Quality Control of Data: Hydrographic, Current Meter, Sea Level, Multibeam bathymetry
  
• Banking and distribution of Data: Hydrographic, Sea level, Current
  
• Member of the Spanish Sea Level Network Committee RIMA
  
• Development and implementation: Marine database and Spanish Geographical Information System with multibeam processing facilities

• Marine Data Exchange: WDC-A, ICES, PSMSL
  
• Exchange of 'know-how' concerning the acquisition and processing of multibeam data with USGS and WHOI
  
• National Coordinator: IOC/IODE
  
• Member of Working group on Marine data Management: ICES
  
• Participation in International Projects: MEDATLAS, INTERRIDGE and TEIDE.
  
• Collaboration with international programmes: WOCE, TOGA, GLOSS
  
• Delegate of international programmes: GOOS
  
• Co-responsible for data management for MAST project: CANIGO

• Multibeam data exchange
  
• Developmet of Software for Quality Control of Data: New parameters
  
• Developemt and implementation of new databases: Time series (sea level, meteorology and current), geological and geophysical
  
• Develpment of a multibeam gridded database: in connection with IHM and related with the Spanish Exclusive Econonmic Zone Program (SEEZ)
  
• Banking and data distribution: Marine geological and geophysical
  
• Editing Atlas on CD-ROM and/or paper: Climatology (Mediterranean), Multibeam bathymetry (SEEZ)
  
• Participation in MAST programmes: Qualify and banking marine data (MED-II), qualify and elaboration of multibeam cartography
  
• Collaboration in operational projects: GOOS, MEDGLOSS
  
• Creation of a Web site: with the results of the projects (RIMA and SEEZ and others)
  
• Creation of an ftp site: for distribution of data
  
• Expand the IEO network between laboratories:
  • 1 Intel server running under Windows-NT in some laboratories for ecology
    
  • 1 UNIX server in Madrid (Corazon de Maria) for hydrography and geophysics

• Inventories: Cruises, tracks and time series in paper list, map and electronic media
  
• Statistical results: in graphs and electronic media (to be developed)
  
• Data: in electronic media (to be developed)

• Hydrography In the frame of the MEDATLAS project, IEO have developed quality control software running on PC under DOS, based on the IOC/CEC Manual of Quality Control Procedures for Validation of Oceangraphic Data. Commercial software.
  
• Ecology: Last year in the IEO a dtabase has been developed and implemented using the Oracle RDBMS on a Intel server under Windows NT
  
• Sea Level: TOGA Procedures running on a PC under DOS
  
• Current Meters: Inventory, time series analysis (filter, spectra, tides) and Graph running on a PC under DOS
  
• Geophysics: Simrad NEPTUNE software for multibeam bathymetry quality control, gridded with the IRAP software and mapping with IBERGIS software running in a SUN workstation
  
• Network:
  • 1 Intel server under Windows-NT in ach laboratory for ecology
    
  • 1 UNIX server in Madrid (Corazon de Maria) for hydrography and geophysics
    
  • 1 Internet server in the Canaries
    
  • 1 Internet Intel server under Windows-NT

• ROSCOP: Spanish cruises on paper and electronic media
  
• Oceanography and biology: Bottles and CTD from IEO cruises on electronic media (some in hard copy)
  
• Sea Level: Hourly heights from the IEO tide gauge network, 13 coastal stations since 1944 on electronic media (a few in hard copy)
  
• Current: from the IEO project Spanish Continental Shelf, since 1978
  
• Geophysics: Continuous seismic reflection lines, magnetometry, sediment samples from geological/geophysical IEO cruises around the Spanish margin. Hard copy (1972-1989), electronic media since 1980. And multibeam (SIMRAD EM-12 and EM-1000), gravity dataq and parametric sounding seismic (high resolution) from the SEEZ project since 1993.

• Bulletin: IEO Tide Gauge Network Annual Bulletin, since 1992
  
• Report: IEO Cruises
  
• Atlas: Mediterranean Climatology (in preparation), SEEZ (in preparation)
  
• Inventory: Geological and geophysical cruises in the Balearic Sea up to 1990
  
• Catalogue: Products available from the SEEZ in IEO (in preparation)