As a result of the 39th Session of the IOC Executive Council (2006) a new responsibility was added to the objectives of IODE: "(v) to support international scientific and operational marine programmes of IOC and WMO and their sponsor organisations with advice and data management services. ". Through this objective the IODE, both at the international level (through IODE projects and other programme activities) as well as at the national level (through the IODE National Oceanographic Data Centres and Marine Libraries), will provide data and information management services that will underpin other IOC programmes in the areas of ocean science, ocean observations, tsunami warning and mitigation, and coastal area management.
At this moment the following support services are provided:
TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION
1- ODINAFRICA Sea Level Data Facility Demonstrator
http://www.sealevelstation.net
The purpose of this service is to provide a real-time overview of the operational status (gauge status) of sealevel stations. The system is also designed to send e-mail and/or sms messages to the station operators in case no data are received by the system. Initially developed to cover only sealevel stations along the African coastline, the system now provides services for 23 stations (May 2007) in the Indian Ocean and Eastern Atlantic region (Benoa, Colombo, Djibouti, Inhambane, Karachi, Ko Taphao Noi, Lamu, Pt.LaRue, Legaspi, Male, Masirah, Nouakchott, Padang, Pemba, Port Elisabeth, Pt.Luis, Rodrique, Sabang, Salalah, Sibolga, Simonstown, Takoradi, Zanzibar).
This service is a contribution by IODE to the IOC's tsunami warning and mitigation system for the Indian Ocean region and to the JCOMM Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) programme.
In addition to the station monitoring service, the system also stores all received data and makes these available in graphic form and as downloads (realtime data; database services).
This service has been developed through the ODINAFRICA project, funded by the Government of Flanders.
Technical development of the system has been carried out by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Oostende, Belgium. The service is hosted by the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium.
Left figure: realtime data display for a selected station (past 36 hours)
Right figure: graph of all observations for a selceted station for the period 1/1/2007 - 30/5/2007.
2- Indian Ocean sea level gauge monitor dashboard - TideTool
http://www.sealevelnetwork.net
TideTool is developed by Stuart Weinstein (PTWC, Hawaii, USA) in cooperation with Laura Kong (ITOIC, Hawaii) as a contribution to the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS) programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC).
The IOC Project Office for IODE provides a web-based service using TideTool as an alternative display tool for sealevel data.
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Created on: Wednesday, 30 May 2007 12:04
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Last Updated on: Monday, 01 July 2013 12:20
