Using NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information's Send2NCEI Application for Archiving Small, Single-Submission Environmental Datasets

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) provides archive and data stewardship services for much of the data collected by NOAA's Earth Observation Systems as well as for the wider world scientific community. Of the various archive pipelines at NCEI, Send2NCEI (S2N) is dedicated to single, non-repeating data submissions of less than 20 Gigabytes. S2N was originally developed for NOAA's oceanographic community but is also ideal for small meteorological datasets. Users with an S2N account can easily submit data files and related documentation for long term preservation, stewardship, and access through a dedicated landing page. Users will also receive a dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ensuring persistent identification and citation throughout the life of the dataset. As NCEI develops and migrates into the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Commercial Cloud Framework (NCCF), S2N will undergo a modernization. NextGenS2N will merge the functionality of S2N with other ingest and archive systems into one tool that will increase the efficiency of NCEI's data stewardship services as well as take full advantage of what commercial cloud services offer.