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BODC News and Events

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Latest news from the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)

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Enabling mash-up data

BODC announces improved functionality for the web delivery of our data series; they now include the ability to download a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file of search results that allows you to view the full metadata report, making this an ideal data browsing tool.

International inventory of moored current meters

BODC announces the launch of the improved international inventory of moored current meters. This online search facility has undergone a major redevelopment resulting in increased user functionality and its entries have now been sourced from more than 20 international organisations

CARBON-OPS web site launched

BODC announces the launch of a web site for the CARBON-OPS project — an operational air-sea carbon flux observation capability for the UK. The web site provides access to ship-based measurements of pCO2 and ancillary surface underway and meteorological data in near real-time. The data are received daily via satellite from five UK research vessels.

BODC at Oceanology International 2008 (Oi08)

BODC will be participating in the forthcoming Oceanology International event (Oi08), from 11-13 March 2008 at ExCeL London.

Investors in People (IIP)

BODC has had its Investors In People status renewed, after passing a post recognition review.

NERC Data Discovery Service

The NERC Data Discovery Service, a new data portal, provides easy access to environmental data. It is populated with 'discovery' metadata (information about data sets), harvested on a regular basis from the NERC Data Centres and other providers, both UK and worldwide.

RAPID-WATCH

NERC is to provide continued support for the research programme that provides a detection system for climate changes in the Atlantic Ocean. A new programme, RAPID-WATCH, will build on the work of the Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) project, so that observations in the Atlantic will continue until 2014. This will result in a valuable ten year data set of direct measurements.

BODC now has a Facebook presence

The British Oceanographic Data Centre joins the social networking site Facebook - please add us to your friends list and provide your feedback on how we may develop our BODC Facebook presence.

BODC now has a BEBO presence

The British Oceanographic Data Centre joins the social networking site BEBO - please add us to your friends list and provide your feedback on how we may develop our BODC BEBO presence.

BODC now has a MySpace presence

The British Oceanographic Data Centre joins the social networking site MySpace - please add us to your friends list and provide your feedback on how we may develop our BODC MySpace presence.

NDG vocabulary server

We announce the launch of a new version of the NERC DataGrid (NDG) vocabulary server with increases in both functionality and performance.

Argo achieves its 3000 float target

Argo achieves a global array of 3000 active profiling floats. It is expected that 800 new floats will need to be launched each year to maintain this 3000 float array, as a float can only operate for approximately four years.

Enabling mash-up data

BODC to use freely available geospatial applications such as Google Earth to provide an easy, cost effective method for communicating data to a wider audience.

Serving the community

BODC handled over 32,200 requests for data and services during 2006 – 2007, an increase of more than 90% on the previous year.

CARBON-OPS

BODC will undertake the near-real time and delayed mode data management for the NERC funded CARBON-OPS project.

Solas Project Integration

The Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Project Integration initiative announce the launch of its web site, prepared and maintained by BODC.

MERMAN

BODC announce the launch of web pages for the Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment National database (MERMAN).

Current meter data

A new BODC service which provides access to over 6000 current meter data series from the National Oceanographic Database is now available.

BODC launch data management pages for the UK Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS)

BODC launch data management pages for the UK Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (UK SOLAS), the UK's contribution to the international SOLAS programme.

BODC launch two new software products

BODC launch two new software products for aiding the display, analysis and access of data, both available to download from the BODC web site.

BODC announce the launch of a new facility to request series data online

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of NODB data series facility which provides access to almost 50,000 data series

BODC launch an interactive map for the Argo Southern Ocean floats

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of a GIS site map facility to aid user access to Argo Southern Ocean floats.

Raw tide gauge data is available for most sites at BODC

The amount of UK tide gauges sites offering raw sea level data as a download has doubled.

Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) web site launch

The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) announces the launch of its new web site, designed and implemented by BODC.

DISCO project data are now available from BODC on CDROM

BODC release the DISCO project data set on CDROM. DISCO was a multidisciplinary study of the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide within a bloom of Emiliania huxleyi.

LEACOAST2 data management go ahead at BODC

British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is providing data management services for the Liverpool - East Anglia Coastal Study

BODC participating in EU SeaDataNet project

BODC is participating in the SeaDataNet project, an EU Integrated Infrastructure Initiative, involving 49 major institutes from 35 countries.

BODC Web Services are now available

BODC launch two platform-independent Web Services, aiding synchronisation of data and opening a window to our information and data holdings.

BODC and BADC collaborate to form UK SOLAS Data Centre

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) will form the UK SOLAS Data Centre.

Edserplo - an enhancement to quality control at BODC

Edserplo is a visualisation program developed by BODC to assess the validity of tidal and other data.

GEBCO one minute grid at BODC

BODC launch an improved data download facility for the GEBCO one minute grid.

An enhancement to the UK Tide Gauge Network data service managed by BODC

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of interactive GIS site maps to enhance user access to all

System of Industry Metocean data for the Offshore and Research Communities (SIMORC) project pages are now available.

BODC are involved in the System of Industry Metocean data for the Offshore and Research Communities (SIMORC) project.

An enhancement to the BODC wave data service

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) announce the launch of a GIS site map facility to aid user access to wave data.

Visit the BODC stand at Oceanology International 2006 (Oi06).

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) will be exhibiting at Oceanology International 2006 (Oi06), ExCeL, London

GEBCO One Minute Grid samples available to download from BODC

The GEBCO One Minute Grid, in the form of individual 20 degree by 20 degree tiles as netCDF files or jpeg images, is now available online.

36 North project data management pages are now available

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) provides data management services for the NERC 36 North project.

Access to RAPID MOC realtime data

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) launch a web site to access realtime data from the RAPID MOC monitoring array.

Autosub Under Ice (AUI) data management pages are now available

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) provides data management services for the NERC Autosub Under Ice (AUI) programme.

Tide gauge data available at BODC

All tide gauge data collected by the UK’s Tide Gauge Network are now available to download.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) launch their new web site

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) launch new web site.

BODC welcomes the new POL Director

BODC welcomes the new POL Director.

Science Management Audit 2004 of BODC

BODC scrutinised by Science Management Audit (SMA) team.

BODC maintains Investors in People (IIP) standard

BODC maintains Investors In People (IIP) standard.

Autosub Under Ice (AUI) data management go ahead at BODC

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) are providing data management services for the NERC Autosub Under Ice (AUI) programme.

BODC data scientists participate in CROZEX cruise

Two of BODC's data scientists participated in the CROZEX Southern Ocean cruise.

BODC have moved to the University of Liverpool campus

We have moved to the purpose built Joseph Proudman Building located on the University of Liverpool campus.

BODC visit Russia as part of EnParDis

In September two members of BODC visited Russian colleagues as part of the Enabling Parameter Discovery (EnParDis) project.

Tide gauge data from 1980s available at BODC

The tide gauge data collected by the UK’s Tide Gauge Network during 1980s are now available to download.

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