The NOAA National Climatic Data Center Data availability, WDC-A, and GCOS data sets

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1 NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting, Helsinki, Finland 2-6 June 2008 The NOAA National Climatic Data Center Data availability, WDC-A, and GCOS data sets Dr. Karsten A. Shein Data Quality Administrator Climatologist, Climate Monitoring Branch NOAA National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC USA Mr. Howard J. Diamond Program Manager, U.S. GCOS and NOAA IPRC Director, World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville NOAA National Climatic Data Center 1100 Wayne Avenue, Room 1220 Silver Spring, MD USA

2 Outline Introduction to NCDC and WDC-Meteorology Data exchange activities What data is available How to access and retrieve these data Data needs 2

3 What is NCDC World s s largest repository of climate and environmental data Located in Asheville, North Carolina Part of the UNESCO World Data Centers In-situ and remotely sensed data products Global coverage Most data available on-line 3

4 Some Popular Products Daily Data (GSOD, ISD, GHCN) Hourly Precipitation Data Satellite data (POES, GOES, SSMI) Climate monitoring summaries, indices, & assessments NOMADS (model data, special products) 4

5 World Data Centers Airglow (Japan) Astronomy (China) Atmospheric Trace Gases (USA) Aurora (Japan) Biodiversity (USA) Climate (Germany) Cosmic Rays (Japan) Earth Tides (Belgium) Geology (China) Geomagnetism (Denmark, UK, Japan, India) Glaciology (USA, UK, China) Human Interactions In The Environment (USA) Ionosphere (Japan) Land Cover Data (USA) Marine Environmental Services (Germany) Marine Geology and Geophysics (USA, Russia) Meteorology (USA, China, Russia) Nuclear Radiation (Japan) Oceanography (Russia, USA, China) Paleoclimatology (USA) Remotely Sensed Data (USA, Germany) Renewable Resources and Environment (China) Rockets and Satellites (Russia, USA, Japan) Rotation of the Earth (Russia, USA) Seismology (USA, China) Soils (The Netherlands) Solar Activity (France) Solar Radio Emissions (Japan) Solar Terrestrial Physics (USA, UK, Russia, Australia) Solid Earth Geophysics (China, USA, Russia) Space Science (China) Sunspot Index (Belgium) 5

6 3 centers WDC for Meteorology Asheville, USA Obninsk,, Russia Beijing, China 6

7 New WDC-A A Web site Quick Access to Data is Key By Theme, Region, or Country contact: [email protected] 7

8 WDC-A A Framework Global and Regional Observing Programs GEOSS, GCOS IPY, etc. GOSIC NOAA/National Climatic Data Center WDC Meteorology, Asheville Regional Data Centers (e.g., APDRC and IDEA) Data Exchanges and Rescue 8

9 Important issues require data from many observation systems Atmospheric Observations Land Surface Observations Ocean Observations Space Observations Discipline Specific View Whole System View Data Systems Current systems are program specific, focused, individually efficient. But incompatible, not integrated, isolated from one another and from wider environmental community Coordinated, efficient, integrated, interoperable 9

10 GEOSS and GOSIC Global Earth Observation System of Systems Portal to decision-making tools Linking observational networks Integration of diverse data Global Observing Systems Information Center Portal to observing system data GCOS, GOOS, GTOS, GAW 10

11 GEOSS 11

12 GOSIC Web Page

13 GCOS in GOSIC 13

14 US - Russia Data Exchange Ongoing since early 1970s Surface-based, upper-air, satellite, terrestrial, and maritime data are exchanged. Contributes valuable data coverage to primary global climate datasets (e.g., GHCN) used by IPCC, CLIVAR, IGBP et al. Collaborative research activities have advanced scientific understanding of global climate change. 14

15 Some Exchanged Data that are available to researchers Hourly & Daily temperature and precipitation data for the US and fussr Daily upper air data State-of of-the-ground (frozen, unfrozen, snow covered) data Relative Humidity data Hydrological Snow Surveys for US and fussr Observations from US and Russian R/V Studies and data collection on soil temperatures for permafrost analysis Global snow cover products HRPT data from polar orbiting and geostationary satellites 15

16 NCDC How to access the data Website and E US Regional Climate Centers Telephone, fax, and mail orders WDC for Meteorology Websites, phone, fax or mail requests GOSIC Website GOSIC portal at GCMD 16

17 Easy Access is Key Integrated databases Search and retrieval via Google Earth* CLASS, HPSS, ISDPS, others NOMADS Portals * In development 17

18 What are your Data Needs? Efforts to make as much data as possible available to researchers Bias free More international exchanges Spatially comprehensive Spatial or temporal resolution 18

19 Discussion and questions Dr. Karsten A. Shein Data Quality Administrator Climatologist, Climate Monitoring Branch NOAA National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC USA Mr. Howard J. Diamond Program Manager, U.S. GCOS and NOAA IPRC Director, World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville NOAA National Climatic Data Center 1100 Wayne Avenue, Room 1220 Silver Spring, MD USA