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Cyberinfrastructure advances at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center and Regional Climate Centers: quality feedback, assurance, and dissemination
Timothy W. Owen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and the affiliated Regional Climate Centers (RCCs) have been working closely with climate community partners, including NOAA’s National Weather Service/Climate Services Division, to enhance its cyberinfrastructure for data quality assurance (through algorithms and feedback mechanisms) and data dissemination. With the maturation of its Applied Climate Information System (ACIS; http://www.rcc-acis.org/), the RCCs are synchronizing their near-real-time data ingest and dissemination capabilities with the NCDC archive to deliver end-to-end climate information.
This talk will focus on three critical cyberinfrastructure advances in the RCC-NCDC architecture: i.) a formal data feedback mechanism for reporting data quality concerns; ii.) RCC-NCDC data quality assurance synchronization; and iii.) a web-based data query system for easy access to climate information by climate community partners and the public. In addition, the status of joint RCC-NCDC climate services delivery through the NOAA/NESDIS e-Commerce System (NeS) will be discussed. The benefits of the resultant improved information delivery for scientists, engineers, decision makers, the educational community, and the public will be highlighted.
Session 17, Internet Applications, Web Portals and Cyberinfrastructure Part II
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
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