Operational data acquisition and Internet presentation of marine environmental data from ships of opportunity and fixed monitoring stations

摘要

Since 1935 Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen has run an operational systemfor acquisition of temperature and salinity data from passenger and cargo lines operatingin the North Sea and on the Norwegian coast and from fixed hydrographic monitoringstations on the Norwegian coast. Presently temperature and salinity data from threeships of opportunity and temperature I salinity profiles from eight hydrographic stationsare regulary collected and transmitted to IMR for quality check, processing,automaticloading into a database and immediate presentation on Internet.The acquired information is used for climatic references, short and long term climaticforecasting, location planning,remote sensor calibration and ge ral information to thepublic. ?The paper describes history, instrumentation strategy ,IMR's data quality procedures foroperational data and how the data are presented on Internet. Plans for futuredevelopment based on more sensors and two way satellite communication are alsodescribed.