NOAA Report

David ClarkNOAA/NESDIS/NGDCCEOS/WGISS 23Hanoi, VietnamMay 25, 2007

Updates and Status

• World Data Center for Meteorology,Asheville

• Global Observing Systems Information Center

• Coastal Digital Elevation Models• Comprehensive Large Array-data

Stewardship System• Global Earth Observations Integrated Data

Environment

New WDC Meteorology Web Pagehttp://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wdc/

Quick Access to Data is Key – By Theme, Region, or Country

New Director: Howard Diamond, as of Jan 2007

e-mail contact: wdcamet@noaa.gov

WDC Meteorology, Asheville

WDC Meteorology, Asheville

Regional DataCenters (e.g.,

APDRC and IDEA)

Regional DataCenters (e.g.,

APDRC and IDEA)

NOAA/National ClimaticData Center

NOAA/National ClimaticData Center

WDC for Meteorology, Asheville Framework

GOSICGOSICGlobal and RegionalObserving Programs

GEOSS, GCOSIPY, etc.

Global and RegionalObserving Programs

GEOSS, GCOSIPY, etc.

Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC)http://gosic.org

Zoomed in view of GOSIC.ORG Home Page

Quick Access to GOOS Data by Programs

The focus of NGDC’s Marine Modeling Program is to develop, archive and provide access to world-wide and regional bathymetric-topographic digital elevation models (DEMs), bathymetric maps, and derived products, including coastal tsunami inundation grids, the U.S. Coastal Relief Model, ETOPO2 and DART buoy deployment maps.

NOAA Marine Modeling Program

Marine Modeling OverviewBackground: NGDC develops, archives and provides access to world-wide and regional bathymetric-topographic digital elevation models (DEMs) and bathymetric maps including coastal tsunami inundation grids, the U.S. Coastal Relief Model, ETOPO2 and DART buoy siting maps.

Purpose: These relief models support tsunami forecasting and modeling efforts and provide base layers for a variety of coastal and global studies.

Products: Coastal inundation DEM: High-quality 1/3 arc-second (10-meter) DEM on consistent vertical and horizontal datum for selected coastal areas Coastal Relief Model: 3 arc-second (~90 m) relief grid for most of the US coastal zone ETOPO2: Global 2-minute bathymetry and topography DART Pre-deployment Maps: best available bathymetric maps for potential DART sites

Primary Activities: Acquire, evaluate, qc, and process data

from federal, state, and local sources Develop tsunami inundation DEMs for

NOAA tsunami forecast & warning (14 completed, 9 underway for FY07, 74 by 20012) Document and distribute DEMs – NOAA

Inundation DEM Web Portal live! Develop custom bathymetric maps to aid

in DART pre-deployment site selection and preparation

Lahaina, Hawaii DEM

Developed ArcIMS tool for researchers to easily locate and download DEMs created by a wide spectrum of organizations.

http://map.ngdc.noaa.gov/website/mgg/dem/viewer.htm

NOAA Coastal DEM Discovery Portal

• Supports multiple NOAA programs from Weather and Water, Marine Transportation and Ecosystems Goals

• Provides a service called for by the scientific community that will facilitate project coordination within NOAA and between government agencies, the private sector and academic institutions.

• Includes footprints for all completed tsunami inundation DEMs, Coastal Relief Model grids, Great Lakes DEMs, and USGS Hawaii DEMs.

Next steps:• Host and add footprint of DEMs from

Alaska Fisheries and Coastal Survey Development Lab.

ArcIMS map views of DEM Discovery Portal

CLASS

• Adherence to agreed-upon standards• Ingesting data, developing collections,

and products• Maintaining databases; ensuring

permanent, secure archives• Providing both user-friendly and

machine-interoperable access; assisting users

• Responding to user feedback • Robust open access systems with E-

commerce, free data, browse, FTP, data sub-setting, Web Services, GIS Services, OpenDAP, etc.

Data Stewardship

Archive StorageSystems(CLASS)

Observing Systems

Data Management

Services

Users

CLASS is NOAA's premiere on-line facility for the archive and distribution of NOAA and US Department of Defense (DoD) Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) data, NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data, and derived data.

CLASS is being enhanced to support new campaignsincluding NPP, NOESS, GOES-R and others.

GEO-IDE- Global Earth Observations Integrated Data

Environment Concept of Operations.- Effort to apply GEO data principles and

guidelines for data systems within NOAA.

- Developed by the NOAA Data Management

Integration Team (DMIT).

Vision: “Federated data systems through shared standards in a service oriented

architecture” NOAA GEO Integrated Data Environment CONOPS completed September 2006

http://www.nosc.noaa.gov/dmc/swg/swg_docs.html

DMITData Management Integration Team

Project OversightUndersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere

NOSCNOAA Observing System

Council (NOAA CIO Member)

DMCNOAA Data Management

Committee (CIO Council Co-Chair)All

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GEO-IDE

• Framework to effectively integrate NOAA’s many systems (a “System of systems” )

• Minimize impact on legacy systems• Utilize standards• Work towards a service-oriented architecture

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Backup slides

GOOS Data Matrix (under development)GOOS Data Access by Theme

• Two workshops in Feb ’05 (Boulder) and May ’06 (Seattle)

• A report summarizing the scientific needs and technological options towards implementation of a GRUAN was recently published by the GCOS Secretariat (GCOS-112, April 2007) and can be found at http://www.wmo.ch/web/gcos/gcoshome.htm.

• A reference set of upper air observations to support climate is necessary for better upper troposphere and lower stratospheric water vapor data (e.g., a key climate forcing parameter)

• Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory in Lindenberg, Germany, has agreed to be a GRUAN Lead Center for development and implementation. Assistance to be provided by NCAR, NCDC, DOE in the US.

GRUAN

Benchmark Network~10 stations

GRUAN30-40 stations

GCOS Upper Air Network (GUAN)

161 stations

Comprehensive observing networkAll stations, observing systems,

satellites, reanalyses etc.

Spatial density

Climate driven

Hierarchy of Upper Air Measurements

GEO-IDE GoalsThrough GEO-IDE NOAA will

• Identify and address integration gaps in DM systems • Create interoperability across existing DM systems• Develop and adopt data standards • Integrate measurements, data, and products

and will achieve

• Cost avoidances in NOAA business through improved efficiency and reduced duplication (eventually)

• Better integration of data and products across disciplines

• Enhance NOAA’s contribution to US IEOS and GEOSS