AIDJEX Bulletin #40 - Polar Science Center - University of Washington

FINAL DISPOSITION OF AIDJEX DATA BANK FILES
Murray Stateman
AIDJEX
The termination of the AIDJEX project also signals the end of the AIDJEX
data bank. All validated source data have been submitted to iational data
banks for permanent retention, together with pertinent documentation. Copies
will be distributed from those facilities upon the request of interested
scientists. The following information may be useful to them.
The data acquired during the AIDJEX main experimenthave been validated,
for the most part, by the principal investigators and analysts. Copies of
finished data sets had been supplied to the data bank in several forms, such
as unformatted binary using Fortran or Extended Fortran and in formatted SCOPE
Internal Display code. Each set is in the format preferred by the analysts that
created it. The units of common variables also vary with the analysts' preference--for
example, time in minutes of the day, dates as year-days or AIDJEX
days (starting 1 January 1975), latitude and longitude in decimal degrees, and
position in rectangular coordinates originating at the North Pole.
Data presented to national data banks whose computer centers are not
compatible with the CDC 6400 have been prepared in fixed block record size,
external BCD, or even parity. Documentation is included as part of the headers
and data records. Narrative descriptions of the data may be included as part
of the header.
Appendix 1 is a description of the data sets developed and used by the
AIDJEX analysts. It had been published in preliminary form in AIDJEX Bulletin
No. 36 (May 1977) , pp. 203-210.
Appendix 2 is a computerized list of the data transferred to the Environmental
Data Service, which maintains the data banks at the National Oceanographic
Data Center in Washington, D.C., and the National Climatic Center in Ashevil'le,
North Carolina.
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