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CISL Research Data Archive. Data Disciplines and Purpose. Disciplines Atmospheric, oceanic, some geo-science observational data Numerical analyses and re-analyses derived from observations Numerical Weather forecasts Purpose
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Data Disciplines and Purpose Disciplines • Atmospheric, oceanic, some geo-science observational data • Numerical analyses and re-analyses derived from observations • Numerical Weather forecasts Purpose Provide access and long-term curation for earth system datasets that support climate and weather research
What makes the RDA work? • National and international data sharing agreements • ECMWF, JMA, NOAA • Data archiving and access support with others at NCAR and UCP • EOL, NESL (MMM, CGD) • COMET, COSMIC, Unidata • Science educated staff members • M.S. degrees or higher in meteorology or oceanography • Core funded – assures consistent long-term stewardship • Know how to deal with large complex datasets
What the RDA means to users Data Content • Over 600 datasets • Nine atmospheric re-analyses • TIGGE Data Access • Simple file downloads to machine interoperable transactions • Well arranged large high resolution datasets • TB size is the new norm for gridded datasets Consulting • Real people connected to every dataset • Skillful – software assistance, personal advice, problem solvers
How we are meeting expectations Users in four service categories • MSS to CISL HPC environment • Web to world-wide community • Orders – one off consulting assisted data preparation • TIGGE 6 thousand users annually • FY09: MSS=266, Web=5649, Orders=196, TIGGE=44
A Bright Future for the RDA New infrastructure leading to improvements - GLADE • More data online, approx. 130 TB in 2010, a 4x increase. Target is 250 TB in 2011. • Single data copy available to HPC and Internet • Abundant computing for faster turn-around on web user’s requests • Grid based tools for faster data transfer and expanded connectivity