HR: 0800h
AN: GC21A-0127    [Abstracts]
TI: Lessons Learned From NARCCAP on Archiving Data and Meeting User Needs
AU: * McGinnis, S A
EM: mcginnis@ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AU: McDaniel, L
EM: mcdaniel@ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AU: Mearns, L O
EM: lindam@ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AB: The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international program to produce high resolution climate change scenarios and investigate uncertainties in regional scale projections of future climate by nesting multiple regional climate models (RCMs) within multiple atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) forced with the A1B SRES scenario over a domain covering the conterminous United States and most of Canada. The resulting datasets will total more than 40 terabytes in size and must be archived for distributed storage and made available to global change impacts researchers worldwide via the Earth System Grid (ESG). This presentation will describe the steps necessary to accomplish these geoscience data management goals and lessons we have learned along the way about handling such an enormous flux of data, maintaining its quality and integrity, and ensuring that the final product is usable by the impacts community, GIS practitioners, and other end users. The importance of data formats, metadata standards, and flexible tools for visualization, checking, and automation will be discussed, as well as social and other significant factors.
UR: http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 1622 Earth system modeling (1225)
DE: 1626 Global climate models (3337, 4928)
DE: 1637 Regional climate change
SC: Global Environmental Change [GC]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting