CLIVAR Data Assembly Centres (DACs)

CLIVAR Upper Ocean Thermal DACs

Marine Environmental Data Service, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (MEDS)

Principal Contact: Bob Keeley

Email: keeley@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Website: http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Int/WOCE/WOCE_UOT/UOT_e.htm

Global Subsurface Data Center, IFREMER, France

Principal Contact: Loic Petit de la Villeon

Email: Loic.Petit.De.La.Villeon@ifremer.fr

Website: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/gsdc/homepage.htm

Responsibilities: During WOCE the Upper Ocean Thermal (UOT) Data Assembly Centre (DAC) was a distributed body with several components working in partnership with the IOC/WMO sponsored Global Temperature Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP).

The job of assembling the data sent either over the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) or coming in delayed mode is the task for Canada's Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS), IFREMER of France, and the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).

Three science centres, the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observation System (JAFOOS) in Australia (responsible for Indian Ocean data), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (responsible for Atlantic Ocean data) and Scripps Institute of Oceanography (responsible for Pacific Ocean data) in the US carry out scientific quality assessment of the data and return their results to the main archive at the NODC.