UWG 2013 Meeting Introduction Andrew Bingham, Project Manager

2 Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Instrument Teams EOS Spacecraft Direct Broadcast/ Direct Readout Stations Direct Broadcast (DB) Data and Operations System Data Processing White Sands Complex (WSC) EOS Polar Ground Stations Internet (Data Search & Access) Research Education Value-Added Providers Interagency Data Centers International Partners Earth System Models Decision Support Systems Data Acquisition Flight Operations, Data Capture, Initial Processing, Science Data Processing, Archive, & Distribution Mission OperationsScience Operations EOS Operations Center Mission Control Data Centers

Part of EOSDIS 3 ASF DAAC SAR Products Sea Ice, Polar Processes PO.DAAC Physical Oceanography SEDAC Human Interactions in Global Change LP DAAC Land Processes & Features ASDC Radiation Budget, Clouds, Aerosols, Tropo Chemistry ORNL DAAC Biogeochemical Dynamics, EOS Land Validation GES DISC Atmos Composition & Dynamics, Global Modeling, Hydrology, Radiance LAADS/ MODAPS Atmosphere OBPG Ocean Biology & Biogeochemistry GHRC Hydrological Cycle & Severe Weather CDDIS Crustal Dynamics Solid Earth NSIDC DAAC Cryosphere, Polar Processes

“Maintain NASA’s oceanographic and climate data for future generations and make these, and synergistic datasets, easily accessible and usable for a broad set of data consumers” PO.DAAC Goal

NASA’s Physical Oceanography DAAC Data Management & Stewardship Preserve NASA’s data for the benefit of future generations Data Access Provide intuitive services to discover, select, extract and utilize data Science Information Services Provide a knowledgebase to help a broad user community understand and interpret satellite ocean data and related information

PO.DAAC Customers

NASA Missions & Projects Gravity Ocean Circulation & Currents Ocean Surface Salinity Ocean Surface Topography Ocean Vector Winds Sea Surface Temperature Ocean Color Sea Ice Seasat, TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, NSCAT, SeaWinds on ADEOS-II, QuikSCAT, GRACE, GHRSST, MEaSUREs, Aquarius Future? SPURS, AirSWOT, CYGNSS, GRACE-FO, SWOT, GRACE-2 Ocean & Climate Community Driven Value-added datasets in support of NASA programs Datasets

Project Management A. Bingham User Services & Interfaces R. Sumagaysay Data Stewardship E. Armstrong System Operations C. Chen Tools & Services Development C. Thompson Project System Engineering Team E. Tauer Project Science Team M. Gierach Project Technologist T. Huang UWG C. Gentemann & M. Caruso Organization UWG Membership 2005: Steve Worley NCAR/UCAR 2006: Chelle Gentemann (Chair), RSS 2006: Michael Caruso (Co-Chair), U. of Miami 2007: Teb Strub, Oregon State U. 2008: Mark Bourassa, Florida State U. 2009: Cara Wilson, NOAA 2010: Kathleen Dohan, ESR 2010: John Wilkin, Rutgers 2011: Don Chambers, U. of South Florida 2011: Doug Vandemark, U. of New Hampshire 2013: Jim Potemra, U. of Hawaii

Primary Interfaces PO.DAAC ESDIS HQ JPL ESDSWG ESIP Clusters Flight Projects PI Projects UsersUWG Requirements New technology, best practices Recommendations Requests NASA DAACs DAACs/NODC

Agenda IntroductionsStart Time Duration Welcome (Bingham & Gentemann)8:30 AM20 NASA HQ and ESDIS (Maiden & Behnke & Lowe & Lindstrom)8:50 AM20 Achievements/Status (Bingham)9:10 AM30 Data Access Status (Tauer)9:40 AM20 Break10:00 AM15 Web Services Demo (Kim)10:15 AM20 Data Subscription Demo (Chung)10:35 AM20 HITIDE Demo (Gangl)10:55 AM20 Science Information Services Status (Gierach)11:15 AM20 SOTO Status and Demo (Thompson)11:35 AM25 Lunch12:00 PM60 SOTO Discussion and Breakout (Thompson)1:00 PM60 Data Management and Stewardship Data Stewardship Status (Armstrong)2:00 PM20 Data Management System Status (Tauer)2:20 PM20 Break2:40 PM15 "Remote" Dataset Discussion (Tauer)2:55 PM30 Crowdsourcing for Dataset Selection Discussion (Tauer)3:25 PM60 Science Direction Discussion (Gierach)4:25 PM45 Closeout of Action Items (Gierach)5:10 PM20 Wrap up (Gentemann)5:30 PM15