The International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPD) and Twentieth Century Reanalysis at NCAR Thomas Cram - NCAR, Boulder, CO Gilbert Compo & Chesley McColl – Univ. of Colorado-Boulder/NOAA-CIRES Doug Schuster & Steven Worley - NCAR, Boulder, CO 7th ACRE Workshop, Toronto, Aug 2014
Topics ● RDA overview ● ISPD and 20CR overview ● RDA services o Data discovery & access o Custom services o Data citation
Research Data Archive (RDA) at NCAR rda.ucar.edu ●600+ distinct datasets for climate and weather research ●Free and open access ●10,000+ unique users in FY2013 ●Collections: ocean & atmosphere observations, analyses, reanalyses, operational NWP outputs ●Each collection managed by a RDA data specialist
RDA data collections ● Historical observations (ISPD, ICOADS, NCDC ISD, Upper Air Database) ● Reanalyses (20CR, ECMWF ERA, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP CSFR, BPRC ASR, … ) ● Operational (NCEP observations, analyses, & forecasts) ● Climate/regional models (CMIP5, NRCM, … ) ● Remote sensing ● Ancillary datasets--topography/bathymetry, vegetation, land use
ISPD (version 2) ● World’s largest collection of surface & sea level pressure observations o Land station o Marine observations (ICOADS) o Tropical cyclone best track (IBTrACS) ● Period: 1768 – 2012 ● Volume: 562 GB ● 60+ contributors ● doi: /D6SQ8XDW ● Data access: rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds132.0
Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) ● Global reanalysis ● Observational inputs o Surface pressure (ISPD) o Sea surface temperature o Sea ice distribution ● Period: near present (currently through 2012) ● Volume: 13.6 TB ● Ensemble mean & spread analysis: 2 x 2 deg grid ● Ensemble mean & spread forecast fields: T62 Gaussian grid ● doi: /D6QR4V37 ● Data access: rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds131.1
Data discovery ● Detailed metadata collection o Dataset-, group-, and file-level metadata o Drive interfaces for file grouping and sub-setting tools o Support efficient back-end processing o Improve scalability o Provide “quick look” at data samples
ISPD Metadata: Dataset level Comprehensive view of dataset-level metadata ●Observing platform ●Data types ●Data frequency ●Temporal & geographical coverage
ISPD Metadata discovery: File level ● Hourly files grouped into yearly tarballs ● Looking glass icon loads discovery tool
ISPD Metadata discovery: File level ● Interactive map ● Browse and inspect observations
20CR Metadata discovery ●Gridded data ●Metadata classified by parameter
ISPD data access page
Data access features ● Direct file download ● Customized subsetting ● Data format conversion o ISPD: HDF5 → ASCII, NetCDF o 20CR: GRIB → NetCDF ● THREDDS services (OPeNDAP, WMS, WCS, etc.) -- currently 20CR only ● RDA API web service (Python) ● Supporting software
20CR data subsetting Temporal Selection Parameter selection Format conversion Spatial selection
ISPD data subsetting Temporal selection Spatial Selection (Lat/Lon region or Station ID) Observation type Output format (ASCII or NetCDF)
2014 online data downloads ● Direct file downloads o ISPD: 869 GB o 20CR: 3.23 TB ● Subset requests o ISPD: 3.14 TB accessed -> 694 GB served o 20CR: 2.65 TB accessed -> 1.27 TB served
Dataset citation service ● Citation design – ESIP Guidelines Compo, G. P., et al International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPDv2). Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. Accessed dd mmm yyyy. ● Citation styles o ESIP o AMS o AGU o DataCite
Upcoming ISPD ● ISPD version 3 ( ) ● Geoscience Data Journal article (in review) ● THREDDS services? General ● Globus data transfer service (GridFTP protocol) CR Version 2c ( ) Version 3 (~1 deg resolution)
ISPD rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds CR rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds131.1