1.  Allow access to observational, model and forecast data  Likely to be in the form of a portal with consistent meta data and pointer to other online location, where data can be retrieved  Mandatory to make data available through the GTS/WIS, using WMO standards including BUFR  There should be a special issue on YOPP in the data publishing journal Earth System Science Data  Data centres such as PANGAEA, that are willing to archive YOPP data (and support the process), should be identified  Take into account existing expertise (e.g. IPY) YOPP Data Archive

2. PANGAEA ® Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science PANGAEA ® Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science A (possible) YOPP Data Archive Hosted by AWI and MARUM

3. Data Library for Georeferenced Data from Earth System Research in Open Access What is PANGAEA?

4. what ? date/time age when ? where ?who ? how ? Combination of data and metadata parameter [unit] method latitude longitude medium earth,water, atmosphere investigator reference

5. Data Flow - from PI to User - from Observation to Prediction YOPP ObservationalD ata Archiving & Publication PANGAEA Data Curation Scientific Community YOPP Investigator Editors Model Prediction

6. Search Like Google: Full text search of the entire content.

7. Plankton Species Globigerina bulloides Data warehouse Distribution map A central repository of integrated data from one more disparate sources

8. Publisher linking

9. Library Catalogs Search Engines PortalsProjects Webservice Publisher Catalogs  PANGAEA uses standard format  Allows others to go through the archive

10. Polar Datasets in PANGAEA 76 49535 944

11.  PANGAEA is a repository for georeferenced data from Earth system research  Datasets are citable, including a persistent identifier (DOI)  Data are open access  PANGAEA is designate archive for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD)  PANGAEA editors would be happy to host YOPP data Summary