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Producing marine geophysical archive files from raw underway data

dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Michael
dc.contributor.authorWessel, Paul
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Brian
dc.contributor.authorLuis, Joaquim
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-24T10:50:46Z
dc.date.available2020-07-24T10:50:46Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.description.abstractPreserving costly marine geophysical trackline data is of paramount importance but variability in priorities, funding, personnel, and technology impact our data archival capacity. We have addressed one crucial facet of this dilemma by devising an open source approach to merge and reduce underway geophysical data and to generate marine geophysical archive files using common command line programs along with the Generic Mapping Tools and its mgd77 supplement. Archive files generated using this approach retain full precision and may be converted automatically to MGD77T, MGD77+, as well as MGD77 formats. We successfully applied the approach to 340 geophysical data sets acquired by R/V Kilo Moana from 2002 to 2018 and in the near term we plan to submit the non-proprietary archive files to the National Centers for Environmental Information's trackline geophysics archive. We encourage international oceanographic communities to explore our methodology as a larger user-base will strengthen the software and the procedures.
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [1458964, 1558403]
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cageo.2019.104321
dc.identifier.eissn1873-7803
dc.identifier.issn0098-3004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14152
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectField
dc.subjectChamp
dc.subjectAlgorithms
dc.subjectData processing
dc.subjectMarine geophysical trackline data
dc.subjectData assimilation
dc.subjectData structures
dc.subjectMGD77
dc.titleProducing marine geophysical archive files from raw underway data
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.startPage104321
oaire.citation.titleComputers and Geosciences
oaire.citation.volume133
person.familyNameLuis
person.givenNameJoaquim
person.identifier.ciencia-id0D11-8EF9-2E68
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-9035-4069
person.identifier.ridA-1112-2009
person.identifier.scopus-author-id7006391353
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