U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS ® ) National Glider Data Assembly Center
IOOS National Glider DAC: Demonstration and Update Jan 5, 2016 | Becky Baltes
Outline IOOS Glider History/Background Resources Data distribution Future plans Audience Input 3
IOOS: Glider Program Regional Associations provide our glider observations and most of our US presence In 2013 Established a National Glider Data Assembly Center (NGDAC or Glider DAC) In 2014 Released a Glider Network White Paper In 2015 Established an IOOC Glider Task team to advance both initiatives 4 4
Summary of Glider Days for Year Glider-days of data collected annually by glider operators. (Glider-day = 1 glider in the water collecting data for 1 day) Glider-days completed outside of the EEZ Glider-days supported by IOOS PO – 2014 Totals * Glider Days provided with support from Federal Agencies including NSF, ONR, NOAA, EPA, state and local governments and private foundations. 5
Glider DAC Resources 6 National standards to ease exchange of data from regional glider operators Real-time distribution to non- federal and federal partners Archiving Share your data 6
Glider DAC Resources – Github Wiki 7 Start here! Tool describes how to create file format All the reference material is here. If you see something, say something or put issue on Test with Compliance Checker 7
Logging In
Creating an Account
The Main Screen
Identify the checker you want to use
Click Browse and find the file
Click Submit and review the score
Recommendations for achieving a perfect score are at the bottom
You can even check remote datasets: just paste in the OPeNDAP URL
Glider DAC Resources- Registration/Status 16 Get U/N and P/W Login and register deployments Upload compliance checked data Check data status Access visualization tools 16
Glider DAC Reach – GTS, Archive, Access 17 Data goes to GTS for use in models Public access Archiving just finalized Data meeting standards are archived. Requirement for Certification for RA operators 17
Future Metrics 18
Future Evaluation Tools for Operators 19
Future Evaluation Tools for Operators 20
Ongoing & Upcoming Glider Activities Revising QARTOD procedures to perform uniform QA of glider data Updated glider landing page (ioos.us) with asset map, data visualization and data analysis tools Additional variables incorporated into DAC (O2, optics, ADCP, etc.) IOOC Glider Task Team to advance Glider Network Concept 21
Links of Interest Glider DAC Wiki: Glider DAC Status: Compliance Checker: data.ioos.us/compliance/data.ioos.us/compliance/ NCEI Archive for glider data: ch.page ch.page IOOS Catalog: IOOS Glider Network Whitepaper: _whitepaper_final.pdf _whitepaper_final.pdf 22
IOOS National Glider DAC: Demonstration and Update Becky Baltes Project Manager U.S, IOOS Program Office