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| Abstract Submission No. | ABS-2022-04-0429 |
| Title of Abstract | Ocean Observations in the Indian Ocean and Data Services |
| Authors | E. Pattabhi Rama Rao*, T.V.S. Uday Bhaskar, R. V. Shesu, Suprit Kumar, N. Srinivasa Rao, M.S. Girish Kumar, Aneesh Lotliker |
| Organisation | INCOIS |
| Address | INCOIS, Ocean Valley, Pragathi Nagar (BO), Nizampet (SO) Hyderabad, Telangana, India Pincode: 500090 Mobile: 9490191923 E-mail: pattabhi@incois.gov.in |
| Country | India |
| Presentation | Oral |
| Abstract | Since the first International Indian Ocean Expedition, oceanographers worldwide focused on observing the Indian Ocean because of its unique characteristics compared to any other oceans. Many countries conducted several oceanographic expeditions and established ocean observing system (OOS) in the Indian Ocean. India is part of this endeavor, established OOS and carried out special field campaigns to understand different oceanographic processes that led to the translation of scientific knowledge to operational oceanographic services. OOS comprises of in-situ and remote sensing platforms measuring a suite of marine meteorological and oceanographic parameters on a broad spectrum of spatial and temporal time scales. These multinational observing systems generated invaluable datasets and improved the scientific understanding of physical and biogeochemical processes and its variability, air-sea interactions, forecasting of weather and ocean state, and climate variability on regional and global scales. The observational network was sustained and enhanced to meet the increasing demands for monitoring, understanding and predicting the Indian Ocean and climate change. Preservation of the long-term data of different parameters and its availability from a single source would facilitate multi-disciplinary approach in understanding the oceans in a better way and bringing out new insights. Further, technological advances in the last two decades in oceanographic sensors; communication and computing systems facilitated the ocean scientists to acquire data in real-time from a variety of ocean observing platforms. Management of heterogeneous and voluminous oceanographic data is imperative to ensure high-quality data for research and for data-driven decision making in operational oceanographic services. Ocean data management is becoming an integral part of ocean observation programmes with emerging technologies such as sensor observing service, web-based data services to serve the data with analytical and visualization features on the fly. In this paper, we present the ocean observing systems implemented by India in the Indian Ocean, development of ocean data and information system, an end-to-end data management system to provide data services to the stakeholders and the recent developments. Internationally concerted efforts in developing standards for metadata and data, quality management systems are also briefly discussed. |