International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES)

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Background

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) coordinates and promotes marine research on oceanography, the marine environment, the marine ecosystem, and on living marine resources in the North Atlantic. Members of the ICES community now include all coastal states bordering the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, with affiliate members in the Mediterranean Sea and southern hemisphere ^[1].

The ICES Secretariat is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

ICES Data Centre

The ICES Data Centre maintains various databases of oceanographic data (including CTD and bottle data), ecosystem data, environment data and catch statistics ^[2].

The ICES Working Group on Data and Information Management (WGDIM) has developed guidelines to assist those involved in the collection, processing, quality control and exchange of various types of (mainly) physical oceanographic data. These guidelines have been adopted by the ICES Data Centre and are recommended to the ICES Community ^[3]. These guidelines cover data collected from the following instruments: CTD, Moored ADCP, Moored Current Meter, Shipborne ADCP, Seasoar (Batfish), Surface (Underway), Water Level, XBT, Net Tow(Plankton), Surface Drifting Buoy, Profiling Float and Drifting Buoy, Discrete water sample, Multibeam echosounder data.

The ICES Data Centre is also responsible for various Oceanographic Data Management Software including the software for extracting Cruise Summary Reports (ROSCOP).

References

Additional Resources

ICES Data Policy 2006 (conforms to the IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy)

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Short title: ICES

Description: International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES)

Expertise level: beginner

Author: Greg Reed

Approval status: approved

Approved by: Greg Reed

Last change: 2010-3-30

Subsection of: Data Centers

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[0] </span>What is ICES?

[1] </span>ICES Data Centre

[2] </span>ICES Data Type Guidelines

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