For the five years after its establishment, activities of MIRC have been greatly supported by the funds "Study of Oceanic Data" defrayed by the Nippon Foundation. The fruits of this project are very conspicuous, and the foundation of MIRC was greatly consolidated. MIRC produced many of data products through the activity of this study. As seen in the contributions to MIRC News Letter by the chairman of IODE, Mr. Ben Searle (No. 8) and by the director of WDC-A, Dr. Sydney Levitus (No. 9), MIRC was recognized as one of the active research organizations in the world. As the project will be terminated by the end of 2001 fiscal year, we shall summarize the activities relating this project. The international cooperative operation and the popularization of oceanographic knowledge are also the elements of the project. We shall summarize MIRC international activities in the separate chapter. As a part of popularization activities, MIRC held marine information symposia 6 times in Niigata, Tokyo (twice), Kobe, Nagoya and Toyama (Some of them had introduced in MIRC News Letter No.3, No.4, No,5 and No.8). Besides, we held "Seminar on Oceanography and Marine Science in Lankawi, Malaysia in 1999 at the time of IODE-WESTPAC International Conference (News Latter No.6). The symposium held in Toyama in 2001 will be introduced in the separated chapter.

　One of the tasks of the project is to design quality-control software of high level to each item of marine data handled by JODC. The software is offered to JODC to make quality check on JODC database or data newly archived. We started to analyze basic physical data such as temperature and salinity, and then analyzed bathymetry data, current data, tide and tidal current data, geophysical data such as gravity and geomagnetic fields successively. In general, we designed quality-control software in the first year, and tried to expand database with high quality by using the designed software in the second year. Then, we produced relating data products such as atlases, data and display units etc., which could be distribute widely for users. As to the tide data and geophysical data, this cycle has not been completed, and so additional efforts will be continued after 2002 fiscal years by using MIRC own funds.

　One of the main achievements is the quality-control software for temperature and salinity data, which can be easily used by local agencies, in order to improve quality of the data flowing into JODC (News Letter No.2). The functions to plot the data on horizontal or vertical section and to create TS diagram are installed in the software, and so this software will help in situ analysis. Error data would be easily found in such analysis stages. This software was highly appreciated by the chair of IODE, Mr. Ben Searle, and he asked us to create its English version. The copies of the software of English version were provided for data management organizations in Asia as reported in the next chapter.

　We confined our efforts to current data taken by ADCP, as huge number of ADCP data are coming into JODC database from patrol vessels of Japanese Coast Guard and so on. Besides its quality-control software, we designed the software to get correction coefficients for inaccurate alignment of the instrument, by using the data obtained on a return cruise, and its copies were provided for each Coast Guard Headquarter.

　We also designed quality-control software for the data obtained by Multi-Beam Echo-Sounder. The data give detailed bottom topography and are very useful, but the data had not fully used due to difficulty in quality-control. This software will be used by experts in the Hydrographic Department of Coast Guard as it requires delicate judgments in some processes. We anticipate that more accurate and denser bathymetric information can be distributed to our users. We re-arranged historical data on tides and tidal currents, and designed quality-control software in unified techniques. As to geophysical data, we surveyed questionable portion of the dataset, and designed fundamental quality-control software.

　As one of the data products, we produced "Animation display of ocean bottom topography near Japan "(News Letter No.9). Opaque seawater was taken off, and bottom scenery is displayed in two ways: bird view pictures maneuverable by mouse and walkthrough movies looking bottom scenery from the front-grass of submarine/flying vehicle. This product was introduced in the symposium in Toyama in 2001 (see the next chapter). We are planning to create teaching guides for high school in near future.

　We do not discuss details about various atlases and other data products for ocean researchers here. We produced bathymetry and coastline dataset and their display software. Basic database like MIRC Ocean Dataset 2001 (News letter No.8) is an example. Research results of MIRC improved services of its service office by producing various high quality data products, and made more efficient and quick services for users. The staffs of MIRC wrote more than 20 scientific papers, and presented their results in various meetings and symposia.

　We hope to express our sincerely thanks for the Nippon Foundation for their great supports in the establishment and initial development stages, at the time of ending the project "Study on Oceanic Data".