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AN: SF21A-0013    [Abstracts]
TI: Climate data service provided by the Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center (APDRC)
AU: * Shen, Y
EM: yshen@iprc.soest.hawaii.edu
AF: IPRC-SOEST, University of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 401, 1680 East-West Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AU: Yuan, G
EM: ygang@hawaii.edu
AF: IPRC-SOEST, University of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 401, 1680 East-West Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AU: Potemra, J T
EM: jimp@hawaii.edu
AF: IPRC-SOEST, University of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 401, 1680 East-West Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AU: Yarimizo, S
EM: shinya@hawaii.edu
AF: IPRC-SOEST, University of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 401, 1680 East-West Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AU: Hacker, P W
EM: phacker@hawaii.edu
AF: IPRC-SOEST, University of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Bldg., Room 401, 1680 East-West Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AB: The APDRC is building towards a vision of one-stop shopping of climate data and products for our users. Our data server infrastructure is built on OPeNDAP that makes local data accessible to remote locations regardless of the local storage format. Most of our locally-stored datasets are served by a GrADS DODS server (GDS) developed at COLA. NASA's satellite data in HDF format, ECMWF's reanalysis data in GRIB format and the Earth Simulator's model output in simple binary are all transformed into OPeNDAP through GDS. We also utilize Unidata's THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) to customize remote datasets via aggregation to allow for more user-friendly access. The JPL ECCO assimilation-based ocean product is one example of a dataset that we serve in this way. In addition to direct access to the datasets served by our OPeNDAP servers, LAS and EPIC servers, both developed by PMEL, allow users to use search, select, make plots and download datasets all though a web-browser based interface. The LAS enables easy regional subsetting of global gridded products. An EPIC server provides Argo float data, GODAE/FNMOC daily real-time profile data, WOCE WHPO (CTD and bottle) data, WOCE upper ocean thermal (UOT) and current meter data. At present the APDRC serves approximately 50 data sets of relevance to climate research, including atmospheric, air-sea flux and ocean data collected both in situ and remotely (e.g., via satellite). In the future we will expand our holdings and links to include data and products that would be of interest to applications users and the general public, for example, nowcasts and forecasts of coastal ocean conditions, weather , climatic variability, etc.
UR: http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu
DE: 3337 Numerical modeling and data assimilation
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting