Scott L. Cross, Ph.D.NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center /

National Coastal Data Development Centerscott.cross@noaa.gov

Outline

The NOAA archive landscape

The Archival process

Next steps…

Provide long-term data stewardship for NOAA, the Nation, and the world.

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NCWorld's largest active archive of weather data, which forms the basis of our understanding of global climate change

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Boulder, COWorld’s largest archive of geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), Silver Spring, MDWorld's largest collection of publicly available oceanographic data. Data holdings include in-situ and remotely sensed physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data

NODC/National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), Bay St. Louis, MSServices directed towards America’s 20,000 miles of coastlines

Capital ‘A’ ArchivalCapital ‘A’ Archival

The OAIS Environment from Sea Level

MANAGEMENT

Preservation Planning

Access

Data Management

Administration

Ingest

Archival Storage

Adapted from

Quasi-autonomous nodes (NCDC, NWS, GFDL…)

Only NCDC node currently linked to NOAA Archives

http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/

CURRENT CAPABILITIES Access to 3 operational models

from NOAA & Navy

OceanNOMADS currently keeps the last 30 days’ worth of daily nowcast/forecast runs available.

http://edac-dap2.northerngulfinstitute.org/ocean_nomads/

SOON Production OceanNOMADS

w/in noaa.gov domain

Long-term (years) storage and access

2. Request for archival (data provider or user)

3. NODC preliminary recommendation

4. (CLASS OPB)5. Submission/Archival Information

Package (data provider) 6. Implementation – hopefully

automated

Do IOOS modelers (or IOOS user community) have a need?

What’s the right “granularity” – National, RA, COOS…

Do we need some kind of meeting or workshop?

scott.cross@noaa.gov