Shipboard automated meteorological and oceanographic system data archive: 2005–2017

Since 2005, the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) initiative has been collecting, quality‐evaluating, distributing, and archiving underway navigational, meteorological, and oceanographic observations from research vessels. Herein we describe the procedures for acqui...

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Published in:Geoscience data journal 2018-11, Vol.5 (2), p.73-86
Main Authors: Smith, Shawn R., Briggs, Kristen, Bourassa, Mark A., Elya, Jocelyn, Paver, Christopher R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Archiving
Atmospheric models
Automation
Calibration
Colleges & universities
Communities
Data analysis
Data processing
data stewardship
Educational institutions
Environmental information
Evaluation
Informatics
marine meteorology
Ocean models
Oceanographic data
Open data
open data access
Procedures
Quality control
Research ships
Research vessels
Satellite observation
Satellites
Ships
Temperature (air-sea)
thermosalinograph
Version control
Vessels
Workflow
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Summary:Since 2005, the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) initiative has been collecting, quality‐evaluating, distributing, and archiving underway navigational, meteorological, and oceanographic observations from research vessels. Herein we describe the procedures for acquiring ship and instrumental metadata and the one‐minute interval observations from 44 research vessels that have contributed to the SAMOS initiative from 2005 to 2017. The overall data processing workflow and quality control procedures are documented along with data file formats and version control procedures. The SAMOS data are disseminated to the user community via web, FTP, and Thematic Real‐time Environmental Distributed Data Services from both the Marine Data Center at the Florida State University and the National Centers for Environmental Information, which serves as the long‐term archive for the SAMOS initiative. They have been used to address topics ranging from air‐sea interaction studies, the calibration, evaluation, and development of satellite observational products, the evaluation of numerical atmospheric and ocean models, and the development of new tools and techniques for geospatial data analysis in the informatics community. Maps provide users the geospatial coverage within the SAMOS dataset, with a focus on the Essential Climate/Ocean Variables, and recommendations are made regarding which versions of the dataset should be accessed by different user communities. Open Practices This article has earned an Open Data badge for making publicly available the digitally‐shareable data necessary to reproduce the reported results. The data is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5QJ7F8R. Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki.
ISSN:2049-6060
2049-6060
DOI:10.1002/gdj3.59