Data Management Plan
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Data Management Plan
DMP Template v2.0.1 (2015-01-01)
Please provide the following information, and submit to the NOAA DM Plan Repository.Reference to Master DM Plan (if applicable)
As stated in Section IV, Requirement 1.3, DM Plans may be hierarchical. If this DM Plan inherits provisions from a higher-level DM Plan already submitted to the Repository, then this more-specific Plan only needs to provide information that differs from what was provided in the Master DM Plan.
1. General Description of Data to be Managed
Ocean color remote sensing provide routine, synoptic observations of the ocean surface at spatial and temporal resolutions not attainable by moored or ship-based platforms. Ocean color sensors measure the spectral distribution of reflected sunlight, which can be used to infer the contents of the water, including chlorophyll a concentrations, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass. Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web and are critical regulators of key biogeochemical processes. Primary productivity esimates are modeled using chlorophyll a, photosynthetic available radiation, and sea surface temperature.
Notes: Only a maximum of 4000 characters will be included.
Notes: Data collection is considered ongoing if a time frame of type "Continuous" exists.
Notes: All time frames from all extent groups are included.
U.S. East Coast Continental Shelf
Notes: All geographic areas from all extent groups are included.
(e.g., digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, tabular data, etc.)
(e.g., satellite, airplane, unmanned aerial system, radar, weather station, moored buoy, research vessel, autonomous underwater vehicle, animal tagging, manual surveys, enforcement activities, numerical model, etc.)
2. Point of Contact for this Data Management Plan (author or maintainer)
Notes: The name of the Person of the most recent Support Role of type "Metadata Contact" is used. The support role must be in effect.
Notes: The name of the Organization of the most recent Support Role of type "Metadata Contact" is used. This field is required if applicable.
3. Responsible Party for Data Management
Program Managers, or their designee, shall be responsible for assuring the proper management of the data produced by their Program. Please indicate the responsible party below.
Notes: The name of the Person of the most recent Support Role of type "Data Steward" is used. The support role must be in effect.
4. Resources
Programs must identify resources within their own budget for managing the data they produce.
5. Data Lineage and Quality
NOAA has issued Information Quality Guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information which it disseminates.
(describe or provide URL of description):
Lineage Statement:
The processing steps to generate the modeled primary productivity data.
Process Steps:
- Level 1 (1km) ocean color data are retrieved from NASA's OceanColor Web supported by the Ocean Biology Processing Group. Level 3 (4 km) nighttime NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder and the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR, version 4.1) Level 4 sea surface temperature (SST) data are retrieved from NOAA NCEI and NASA JPL PODAAC websites respectively. (Citation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Biology Processing Group; Ocean Color Data, NASA OB.DAAC, Greenbelt, MD, USA. Maintained by NASA Ocean Biology Distibuted Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC), Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD.NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory MUR MEaSUREs Project)
- The NASA software SeaDAS is used to generate Level 2 and daily binned files of chlorophyll (CHL) and PAR and the SST data are converted into the same binned map as the ocean color data. (Citation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Biology Processing Group; Ocean Color Data, NASA OB.DAAC, Greenbelt, MD, USA. Maintained by NASA Ocean Biology Distibuted Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC), Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD.NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory MUR MEaSUREs Project)
- CHL and the Pathfinder SST data are temporally interpolated to reduce data gaps prior to being input into the primary productivity model. (Citation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Biology Processing Group; Ocean Color Data, NASA OB.DAAC, Greenbelt, MD, USA. Maintained by NASA Ocean Biology Distibuted Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC), Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD.NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory MUR MEaSUREs Project)
- Statistical data and mapped netcdf files are created using code developed locally in IDL. (Citation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Biology Processing Group; Ocean Color Data, NASA OB.DAAC, Greenbelt, MD, USA. Maintained by NASA Ocean Biology Distibuted Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC), Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD.NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory MUR MEaSUREs Project)
(describe or provide URL of description):
NA
6. Data Documentation
The EDMC Data Documentation Procedural Directive requires that NOAA data be well documented, specifies the use of ISO 19115 and related standards for documentation of new data, and provides links to resources and tools for metadata creation and validation.
Missing/invalid information:
- 1.7. Data collection method(s)
(describe or provide URL of description):
7. Data Access
NAO 212-15 states that access to environmental data may only be restricted when distribution is explicitly limited by law, regulation, policy (such as those applicable to personally identifiable information or protected critical infrastructure information or proprietary trade information) or by security requirements. The EDMC Data Access Procedural Directive contains specific guidance, recommends the use of open-standard, interoperable, non-proprietary web services, provides information about resources and tools to enable data access, and includes a Waiver to be submitted to justify any approach other than full, unrestricted public access.
No constraints
Notes: The name of the Organization of the most recent Support Role of type "Distributor" is used. The support role must be in effect. This information is not required if an approved access waiver exists for this data.
Notes: This field is required if a Distributor has not been specified.
Notes: All URLs listed in the Distribution Info section will be included. This field is required if applicable.
Data may be obtained at https://comet.nefsc.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html
There is an approximate 60-90 delay in the release of the ancillary data needed to generate the science quality data, then additional data is needed in the time series to temporally interpolate the input data.
Notes: This field is required if applicable.
8. Data Preservation and Protection
The NOAA Procedure for Scientific Records Appraisal and Archive Approval describes how to identify, appraise and decide what scientific records are to be preserved in a NOAA archive.
(Specify NCEI-MD, NCEI-CO, NCEI-NC, NCEI-MS, World Data Center (WDC) facility, Other, To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended)
Notes: This field is required if archive location is World Data Center or Other.
Notes: This field is required if archive location is To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended.
Notes: Physical Location Organization, City and State are required, or a Location Description is required.
Discuss data back-up, disaster recovery/contingency planning, and off-site data storage relevant to the data collection
Regular server back-ups, local copies, raw data stored offsite and can be used to recreate files from backed-up programs
9. Additional Line Office or Staff Office Questions
Line and Staff Offices may extend this template by inserting additional questions in this section.