Manik Bali, Aleksandar Jelenak TAXONOMY Manik Bali, Aleksandar Jelenak

24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany Taxonomy of GSICS products is very important for establishing future data management policies. 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

Products to be classified as Instrument Class Algorithm type Product type. 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany Review of activities since the last meetings TAXONOMY Instrument class Represents the types of monitored and reference instruments, and the electromagnetic spectrum range of their observational capabilities. GEO-LEO-VIS GEO-LEO-NIR GEO-LEO-VISNIR LEO-LEO-IR LEO-LEO-VIS LEO-LEO-UVVIS LEO-LEO-MW (LEO-LEO Microwave) GEO-GEO-IR GEO-GEO-VIS 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany Algorithm Type NWP-DD (Numerical Weather Prediction Double Differencing) Hyperspectral Broadband DCC (Deep Convective Clouds) Moon Stars Rayleigh Scattering PICS (Pseudo Invariant Calibration Sites) SNO (Simultaneous Nadir Overpass) Ray Matching LWC (Liquid Water Cloud) Sun Glint Amazon Dome C Combined Method  (this is not a method on its own but a combination of two or more other principle methods) 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany Product Type RAC (Re-analysis Correction) NRTC (Near Real-Time Correction) Daily ARC (Archive Re-Calibration) 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

GSICS Product Properties List of all the properties associated with one product : Name Data producer Data publisher Instrument class Principal methodology Product type Monitored instrument Reference instrument (one or more) Version number Data URL Documentation URL Metadata URL (optional; one or more) 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany Example Name: GEOLEOIR Data producer: NESDIS Data publisher: NESDIS Instrument class: GEO-LEO-IR Principal methodology: Hyper-spectral SNO Product type: RAC Monitored instrument: GOES-13 Imager Reference instrument: Metop-A IASI Version number: 1.0.1 Data URL: (See the product catalog) Documentation URL: (See the product catalog) Metadata URL: (Not available) 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany

24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany Organization of the products on the THREDDS catalog based on the proposed product taxonomy Top Level GEO-LEO LEO-LEO FCDR GEO-GEO II Level CD to GOES-IASI MSG-IASI CD to AIRS-IASI HIRS-AIRS CD to MSU-AMSU CD to ……. III Level CD to IR VIS 24-28March 2014 GSICS Joint Working Groups Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany