HR: 0800h
AN: SF31A-0712    [Abstracts]
TI: The GFDL Data Portal: a Doorway to Sharing Model Outputs
AU: * OBrien, K M
EM: kevin.m.obrien@noaa.gov
AF: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington Box 354235, Seattle, WA 98195-4235 United States
AU: Hankin, S
EM: steven.c.hankin@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, 7600 Sand Pt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 United States
AU: Callahan, J
EM: Jonathan.S.Callahan@noaa.gov
AF: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington Box 354235, Seattle, WA 98195-4235 United States
AU: Balaji, V
EM: V.Balaji@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Forrestal Campus US Route 1, Princeton, NJ 08542 United States
AU: Schweitzer, R
EM: Roland.Schweitzer@noaa.gov
AF: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington Box 354235, Seattle, WA 98195-4235 United States
AU: Mclean, J
EM: Joe.Mclean@noaa.gov
AF: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington Box 354235, Seattle, WA 98195-4235 United States
AU: Wei, Y
EM: Yonghua.Wei@noaa.gov
AF: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington Box 354235, Seattle, WA 98195-4235 United States
AU: Manke, A
EM: Ansley.B.Manke@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, 7600 Sand Pt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 United States
AB: In response to increasing community interest in the output of models run at GFDL, we have embarked upon the design of a data portal for sharing numerical model output. Effective sharing of model output requires software standards and tools and then utilizing those tools to build data portals. Among the tools that the GFDL data portal will utilize is the Live Access Server (LAS). LAS is a visualization and analysis tool which allows: presentation of a multitude of variables in an orderly way by easily defining and customizing arbitrary hierarchies; location of datasets and variables of interest from among thousands offered without navigating the complete dataset hierarchy; easy intercomparison of model results (http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LAS). The OPeNDAP framework (http://www.opendap.org) will also be a key component in the GFDL data portal. This framework provides local data access to remote data, regardless of the remote storage format, and will allow for intercomparison of model results between groups of users. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) is a partner in the NASA-funded development of the Earth Systems Modeling Framework (ESMF) collaboration (http://www.esmf.ucar.edu). The ESMF is an effort to greatly improve coordination in the advancement of climate models through the development of a community framework to couple model components (http://www.esmf.ucar.edu). Working with the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals (GO-ESSP, http://go-essp.gfdl.noaa.gov), the goal is to develop a software infrastructure using agreed-upon standards to provide distributed access to observed and simulated data from climate and weather communities. In this presentation we will discuss the GFDL data portal, the web site(s) through which many model outputs from GFDL are accessible, and its underlying standards and tools.
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
DE: 4500 OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL
DE: 4800 OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL
DE: 3300 METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
DE: 0910 Data processing
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting