History & Achievement
The GODAR project has been established by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in 1993 in order to save oceanographic data from a risk of losing by degradation of recording media or disaster etc., and to increase the volume of historical data available to climate change and other researches. The workshops related the program were held in each region in the world to promote the project.
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Year |
Workshop |
Venue |
Date |
Report |
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1993 |
IOC-CEC-ICSU-ICES Regional Workshop for member States of Easyern and Nothern Europe (Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue [GODAR] Project) |
WDC-B, Oceanography, Obninsk, Russian Federation |
May 17-20, 1993 |
(200KB) |
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1994 |
IOC-SOA-NOAA Regional Workshop for Member States of the Western Pacific - GODAR II |
WDC-D for Oceanography, Tianjin, China |
March 8-11, 1994 |
(353KB) |
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1994 |
IOC-ICSU-NIO-NOAA Regional Workshop for Member States of the Indian Ocean -GODAR-III |
INODC, NIO , Dona Paula, Goa, India |
Dec. 6-9, 1994 |
(191KB) |
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1995 |
IOC-ICSU-CEC Regional Workshop for Member States of the Mediterranean - GODAR-IV |
Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta |
April 25-28, 1995 |
(639KB) |
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1996 |
IOC Regional Workshop for Member States of the Caribbean and South America - GODAR-V |
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia |
Oct. 8-11, 1996 |
(968KB) |
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1997 |
IOC Regional Workshop for Member States of Western Africa - GODAR VI |
Accra, Ghana |
April 22-25, 1997 |
(428kB) |
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1999 |
International GODAR Review Meeting |
US-NODC, USA |
July, 1997 |
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The large volume of data is collected at US-NODC/WDC-A through the program under the cooperation of the IOC member states such as the GODAR project, NODC Global Ocean Database project, IOC World Ocean Database project, Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Project (GTSPP), World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), Joint Global Ocean Flux Studies (JGOFS), Ocean Margin Experiment (OMEX), and many others. These data have been made available internationally without restriction via CD-ROM and on-line as the World Ocean Database by US-NODC/WDC-A.
The World Ocean Database 2001 (WOD01) CD-ROM's, is the latest edition of it published on April 2002, containing observed and standard level profile, plankton and surface data, represent an update of the World Ocean Database products first released as World Ocean Atlas 1994 (WOA94), and followed by World Ocean Database 1998 (WOD98). WOD01 expands on WOD98 by including new variables and data types. WOD01 contains the total of 7,037,213 stations data which is increasing 157 % from WOA94.
However, there are many data that were reported at the GODAR II, in Tianjin, China, 1994, still in manuscript form in this region.
The importance of promoting the GODAR program in the region was recognized again at the International Conference for the International Data & Information Exchange in the WESTPAC region 1999 (ICIWP'99) held in Langkawi, Malaysia, Nov. 1999. And ICIWP'99 recommended the establishment of a working group chaired by the representative from Malaysia in order to start a GODAR type project in the WESTPAC region. This paper describes a work plan to support the development of the GODAR type project according to the recommendation of ICIWP'99 (w169.pdf, 354KB).
It was adopted to promote the GODAR project in the WESTPAC region (GODAR-WESTPAC) at the 16th Session of the IOC committee on International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange (IODE-XVI) in Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2000 (giode16.pdf, 801KB).
On this basis, in March 2002, persons concerned with NODCs of the region met in Tokyo, discussed methods to promote the GODAR activities in the region, and formulated the five-year GODAR-WESTPAC project plan (draft_GODAR-WESTPAC-plan.pdf, 110KB).