HR: 16:05h
AN: SH44A-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Data Format Standardization of Space Weather Model Output at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center
AU: * Maddox, M M
EM: Marlo.Maddox@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geophysics Branch, Code 612.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Rastaetter, L
EM: lr@waipio.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geophysics Branch, Code 612.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hesse, M
EM: Michael.Hesse@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geophysics Branch, Code 612.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: The disparate nature of space weather model output provides many challenges with regards to the portability and reuse of not only the data itself, but also any tools that are developed for analysis and visualization. We are developing and implementing a comprehensive data format standardization methodology that allows heterogeneous model output data to be stored uniformly in any common science data format. We will discuss our approach to identifying core meta-data elements that can be used to supplement raw model output data, thus creating self-descriptive files. The meta-data should also contain information describing the simulation grid. This will ultimately assists in the development of efficient data access tools capable of extracting data at any given point and time. We will also discuss our experiences standardizing the output of two global magnetospheric models, and how we plan to apply similar procedures when standardizing the output of the solar, heliospheric, and ionosphereic models that are also currently hosted at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center.
UR: http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 2499 General or miscellaneous
DE: 2799 General or miscellaneous
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly