National Marine Data and Information Service

Name of repository

National Marine Data and Information Service

Additional name(s)

• NMDIS
• China Oceanic Information Network

Repository URL

http://www.nmdis.org.cn/

Subject(s)

• Atmospheric Science and Oceanography
• Geosciences (including Geography)
• Zoology
• Natural Sciences
• Biology
• Life Sciences
• Oceanography

Description

As the third center for oceanography of the World Data Center following WDC-A of the United States and WDC-B of Russia, WDC-D for oceanography boasts long-term and stable sources of domestic marine basic data. The State Oceanic Administration now has long-term observations obtained from the fixed coastal ocean stations, offshore and oceanic research vessels, moored and drifting buoys. More and more marine data have been available from the Chinese-foreign marine cooperative surveys, analysis and measurement of laboratory samples, reception by the satellite ground station, aerial telemeter and remote sensing, the GOOS program and global ships of opportunity reports, etc; More marine data are being and will be obtained from the ongoing “863” program, one of the state key projects during the Ninth Five-year plan and the seasat No 1 which is scheduled to be launched next year. Through many years’ effort, the WDC-D for oceanography has established formal relationship of marine data exchange with over 130 marine institutions in more than 60 countries in the world and is maintaining a close relationship of data exchange with over 30 major national oceanographic data centers. The established China Oceanic Information Network has joined the international marine data exchange system via Internet. Through these channels, a large amount data have been acquired of through international exchange, which, plus the marine data collected at home for many years, has brought the WDC-D for Oceanography over 100 years’ global marine data with a total data amounting to more than 10 billion bytes. In the meantime, a vast amount of work has been done in the standardized and normalized processing and management of the data, and a series of national and professional standards have been formulated and implemented successively. Moreover, appropriate standards and norms are being formulated as required.

Contact

• shlin@mail.nmdis.gov.cn

Content type(s)

• Scientific and statistical data formats
• Networkbased data
• Raw data
• other

Certificates and Standards

• World Data System

Keyword(s)

• SEASAT
• marine disaster
• marine environment
• marine research
• marine resource
• marine zoology
• telemeter

Repository type(s)

• disciplinary

Mission statement for designated community

http://www.nmdis.org.cn/english/nmdiss-mission/

Research data repository language(s)

• English
• Chinese

Data and/or service provider

• data provider
• service provider