IOOS National Glider DAC: Demonstration and Update April, 7th 2016 | Becky Baltes and Luke Campbell
Outline IOOS Glider DAC History/Background Resources and Tools Data distribution Future plans 2
Regional Associations provide most of our glider observations and most of our US presence 2013: Established a National Glider Data Assembly Center (NGDAC or Glider DAC) 2014: Released a Glider Network White Paper 2015: Established an IOOC Glider Task team to advance both initiatives 2016: Launched gliders.ioos.us IOOS: Glider History 3 3
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. 4
Glider DAC Resources 5 National standards to ease exchange of data from regional glider operators Real-time distribution to non- federal and federal partners Archiving Share your data 5
Tools and Demo (Luke) Gliders.ioos.us Wiki Compliance Checker Thredds/ERDDAP Catalogs Status Page Glider data viewer Archive capacity 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
Glider DAC Resources- Registration/Status 8 Get U/N and P/W Login and register deployments Upload compliance checked data Check data status Access visualization tools 8
Glider DAC Reach – GTS, Archive, Access 9 Data goes to GTS for use in models Public access Archiving just finalized Data meeting standards are archived. Requirement for Certification for RA operators 9
Future Metrics 10
Future Evaluation Tools for Operators 11
Future Evaluation Tools for Operators 12
Upcoming & Potential Glider DAC Activities Finalizing new Glider DAC QARTOD Manual and developing procedures to perform some QA of glider data at the DAC Additional variables under consideration for the DAC: Chl, DO, CDOM, backscatter, others? Develop process for receiving delayed mode data Other ideas? 13
Links of Interest Glider DAC Homepage: Glider DAC Wiki: Glider DAC Status: Compliance Checker: data.ioos.us/compliance/data.ioos.us/compliance/ NCEI Archive for glider data: earch.page earch.page IOOS Catalog: IOOS Glider Network Whitepaper: _whitepaper_final.pdf _whitepaper_final.pdf 14
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