How to find operational data centres for each ECV?!

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1 WMO/IOC/UNEP/ICSU GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEM GCOS/WCRP TERRESTRIAL OBSERVATION PANEL FOR CLIMATE FIFTEENTH SESSION GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 6 7 MARCH 2013 TOPC-XV Doc. 9.3 (21.II.2013) Rev Item 9.3 How to find operational data centres for each ECV?! (Submitted by Michael Zemp and GCOS Secretariat) Summary and Purpose of Document The purpose of this document is to support discussions on how to find data centres to become responsible for the compilation and dissemination of observational data for not yet covered. It gives an overview on the data centres currently registered under ICSU s newly established Word Data System (WDS). ACTION PROPOSED The meeting is invited to note this information, and consider it in its discussion on agenda item 9.3.

2 TOPC-XVI, Doc. 9.3, p. 1 Background: In the frame of the ICSU visioning process, a new ICSU World Data System (WDS) has been created. As part of this process, international data centres had to re-apply and were reevaluated. Candidatures are evaluated by the WDS Scientific Committee on criteria such as access to high-quality data, data stewardship, and participation in broad harmonization and interoperability efforts. Several former ICSU World Data Centres (WDCs) and former Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data-analysis Services (FAGS), as well as numerous new organizations have been certified as Members of the new system. As of 15 February 2013, WDS consists of 64 Member organizations in four different categories. The WDS Scientific Committee is still in the reviewing process for several other applications, therefore the status of the organizations might be (as membership requires the signature of a Letter of Agreement between members in all categories and ICSU). Definitions are as follow: Regular Members Organizations that deal directly with data analysis services (e.g. data centres and data services such as former WDCs and/or FAGS) Network Members Umbrella organizations representing groups of data centres and/or data services, some of which may or may not be WDS Regular Members; usually serve as coordinating agents for nodes that have common characteristics Partner Members Organizations that do not deal directly with the practical details of data collection, and distribution, but contribute funding or other support to WDS Associate Members Organizations that are interested in the WDS endeavour and actively participating in the WDS discussion, but that do not contribute direct funding or other material support. At the 14th session of the TOPC, action items were identified, with one of them asking GCOS to liaise with ICSU in the view of identifying additional data centres for (action item 14). Following up on this, the GCOS Secretariat proposed the nomination of Dr Isabelle Gärtner from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) to become a member of the ICSU WDS Scientific Committee. Dr Gärtner has unfortunately not been selected by ICSU. The table below gives an overview on the current list of ICSU WDCs. The colour-code of the list is as following: Grey for GCOS/not related to (e.g. astronomic or geophysical); Yellow partly relevant (e.g. rather special or local products); Blue relevant ECV data for Oceans; Green relevant ECV data for Land and Atmosphere.

3 Overview Regular Members Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia Name Website Main scientific focus ECV Products provided Comment Centre de Donnees astronomoiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France Chinese Astronomical Data Centre, China data.aad.gov.au Space Sciences most d_data_centre dcdsweb.u-strasb.fr Space Sciences, Solar terrestrial physics Astronomy Astronomy most Data Centre for Geography, Moscow, Russia ru/structure/labs/wds/ Geography DataFirst, University of Cape Town, South Africa za Geography, Economics, Health Science Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), WDC for Climate, Germany casdc.chinavo.org/?locale=en mud.dkrz.de/wdc-forclimate Fish Database of Taiwan, Taiwan fishdb.sinica.edu.tw Biodiversity Flanders Marine Institute, Data Centre, Belgium Incorporated Institutions for Research in Seismology (IRIS), USA vliz.be iris.edu Climate most Model data Marine Environmental Sciences Seismology

4 Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA), USA iedadata.org Earth Sciences partly relevant (global geochemistry and marine geoscientific data) data access, analysis, compliance and publication IEDA operates and maintains a suite of data systems and data collections that provide access to a wide variety of solid earth data from the marine, terrestrial, and polar environments. International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems, Germany iers.org Cartography and Geodesy International GNSS Service, USA igs.org/ General Atmospheric Parameters and Geocentric Coordinates that support several, such as atmospheric water vapour sea level and ice sheets Collection of volunteer satellite geodesy organizations whose efforts support a broad range of geosciences applications. The IGS is widely regarded as the highest precision GNSS community in the world. Full WDS membership International Service of Geomagnetic Indices, France isgi.cetp.ipsl.fr Geomagnetism

5 International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), WDC for Soils, The Netherlands National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Distributed Active Archive Centre (NSDIC DAAC), USA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Distributed Active Archive Centre (ORNL DAAC), USA * Paleoclimatology Branch, NOAA's National Climatic Data Centre, USA isric.org/content/worl d-data-centre-soils nsidc.org/daac p-categories/regularmembers#loa paleo The Language Archive, The Netherlands Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Initiative, USA Ukrainian Geospatial Data Centre (CU) teamnetwork.org/en/ inform.ikd.kiev.ua/ind ex/php?path=/en/ind ex Soils Geography Geography, Ecology Climatology, Global change Psychology, Anthropology Ecology Computer Sciences partly relevant (global soil information) partly relevant Biodiversity/Ec osystem observations, above ground carbon, land cover (vegetation) & land use The WDC - Soils provides a focus for soilrelated collections and information services as custodian of global soil information archives, documents and data distribution from NASA's past and current Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites and field measurement programs data, metadata GIS data, Google Maps based data application Interesting ecosystem super-sites. Full WDS membership

6 WDC for Earth Resources Observation and Sciences (EROS), USA WDC for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development, Ukraine WDC for Geomagnetism, Copenhagen, Denmark eros.usgs.gov wdc.org.ua web.dmi.dk/projects/ wdcc1 Environmental Studies Sustainable Development Geomagnetism WDC for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh, UK wdc.bgs.ac.uk Geomagnetism WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto, Japan WDC for Glaciology; WDC for Solar Terrestrial Physics, Colorado University, Boulder, USA WDC for Ionosphere and Space Weather, Japan wdc.kugi.kyotou.ac.ip c/usa/glaciology.html wdc.bgs.ac.uk Geomagnetism Glaciology; Solar terrestrial physics Space Sciences, Earth Sciences Glaciers (solar terrestrial physics not relevant) partly relevant Data, Publications (inventories, quarterly accessions lists, bibliographies, etc.) Data WDC for Marine Environmental Sciences, PANGAEA, Germany wdc-mare.org/ Marine Environmental Sciences all Biogeochemistry, Circulation, and Life of Present and Past Oceans Collection of data related to Global Change and Earth System research in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geosciences, marine biology; focus on georeferenced data from PANGAEA information system. WDC for Meteorology, Asheville, USA oa/wdc/index.php Meteorology all standard meteorological also WMO World Data Centre

7 WDC for Meteorology, Obninsk, Russia WDC for Oceanography, Obninsk, Russia WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring, USA WDC for Oceanography, Tianjin, China WDC for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Germany WDC for Renewable Resources and Environment, China WDC for Rockets, Satellites and Rotation of the Earth, Obninsk, Russia WDC for Solar Activity, France WDC for Solar Terrestrial Physics, Moscow, Russia WDC for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow, Russia meteo.ru/mcd/ewdc met.html meteo.ru/mcd/ewdco ce.html nodc.noaa.gov/gene ral/nodcdataexch/nodcwdca.html wdcd.coi.gov.cn/english/ eindex.html Meteorology Oceanography Oceanography Oceanography all standard meteorological, snow cover all all all wdc.dlr.de Remote Sensing data all eng.wdc.cn:8080/met adata/index.jsp meteo.ru/mcd/ewdcr oc.html bass2000.obspm.fr/h ome.php wdcb.ru/stp/index.en. html wdcb.ru/sep/index.ht ml Renewable Resources, Environment Rockets and Satellites Solar Activity Solar Terrestrial Physics Solid Earth Physics focus on Russia, bilateral data exchange with WDC Asheville focus on Russia, bilateral data exchange with organizations from the Russian Federation; statistical parameters, expedition information (only for a few countries) part of GOOS. Full WDS membership

8 WDC for Sunspot Index and long-term solar observations (SILSO), Belgium sidc.oma.be/sunspotdata/ Sunspot Index WFCC-MICREN World Data Centre of Microorganisms (WDCM), USA Life Sciences, Microbiology World Data Service for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder, USA World Glacier Monitoring Service, Switzerland World Stress Map Project, Helmholtz Centre, Germany mgg/aboutmgg/about wdcmgg.html geo.uzh.ch/microsite/ wgms Marine Geology and Geophysics Glaciology Geophysics, Geochemistry Glaciers data exchange, bathymetric map generator, mass balance; glacier inventory also WMO World Data Centre Overview Network Members Name Website Main scientific focus ECV Products provided Comment International Laser Ranging Service, USA International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Belgium International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry, USA NASA ESDIS Project, USA ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov iode.org ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov earthdata.nasa.gov Laser Ranging Oceanography Astronomy Space Sciences, Earth Sciences Computer Sciences, Geography, Ecology all facilitating the exchange of data/information between IOC Member States, capcity building, trainings/education WDS network partnership The WODselect retrieval system allows to search the World Ocean Database WDS network partnership WDS network partnership WDS network partnership WDS network partnership

9 Overview Partner Members Name Website Main scientific focus ECV Products provided Comment International Environmental Data Rescue Organization, USA International Union of Geological Sciences, USA iedro.org iugs.org Data rescue International Scientific Union WDS partner member membership Overview Associate Members Name Website Main scientific focus ECV Products provided Comment Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed University, India Public Trust Elsevier, USA Science Publishing French Academy of Sciences, France International Association of STM Publishers, UK International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Canada International Commission for Acoustics, USA International Mathematical Union, Committee on Electronic Information and Communication, USA International Union of Geological Sciences, USA stm-assoc.org iahs.info/ iugs.org Science Publishing General Hydrological Sciences, General International Scientific Committee Mathematics International Scientific Union John Wiley & Sons Ltd., USA eu.wiley.com/wileycda/ Science Publishing Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), South Korea The Royal Society of New Zealand National Scientific Academy National Scientific Society WorldWideScience Alliance worldwidescience.org Global Science Portal paper publishing paper publishing membership membership membership membership membership membership membership membership membership membership membership membership

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