1. Data Stewardship at the NOAA Data Centers Sub Topic - Value Added Products ESIP Federation Meeting, Washington, DC January 6-8, 2009

2. Climate, Oceans and Environmental Data Services Support – Value Added Products Data Centers data holdings = Several petabytes of environmental information from Space and Earth based platforms Objective - To make use of data integration and interoperability to derive products to support differing themes and SBA’s : Energy, Transportation, Bio Diversity, Climate Change, Severe Weather, etc.. The Challenge How do we organize these data? How do customers get the data into a GIS or other formats? Diverse Users! Diverse data types: – Vector, Tables, Raster / Grid ( GIS Speak ) – Point, Trajectory, Time Series, Grid, Radial, Swath, etc…

3. Climate, Oceans and Environmental Data Services Support – Value Added Products Data Services IT Architecture Support (NCDC): – Geospatial Relational Database (Oracle Spatial / PostGIS / ArcSDE) Station info, time series data, drought, SWDI – THREDDS Data Server Web Server that subsets multidimensional datasets (NetCDF, GRIB, etc…) Model (NOMADS), Satellite Products (SST) – Client Application (Weather and Climate Toolkit) Additional functionality – visualization and data export to common formats

4. Climate, Oceans and Environmental Data Services Support – Value Added Products Data Services IT Architecture Support (NCDC) : Standards for interoperability: – Geospatial Relational Database (Oracle Spatial / PostGIS / ArcSDE) WMS, WFS, Custom REST XML Web Services – THREDDS Data Server WCS, OPeNDAP, NetCDF and XML REST Web Services – Client Application Consume standards-based services CF-compliant NetCDF + Common Data Model

5. Climate, Oceans and Environmental Data Services Support – Value Added Products One Type of Value Added Product Generation Web Service Severe Weather Data Inventory ―Geospatial database of weather phenomena represented as point, line or polygon ―Partnership with UNC-Asheville/NEMAC/RENCI ―NEXRAD Level-III Storm Info, LSRs; Lightning, Warnings, Storm Data, MPE Precip, HurSat ―REST Web Service Access: Search based on location, data range, within area, etc… Statistics – count, summarize by hour, day, month Output types (csv, xml, kmz, Shapefile, GeoRSS)

6. Climate, Oceans and Environmental Data Services Support – Value Added Products Role of Private Sector vs. Public Sector ― Level Playing Field ― Using Distributed Data ―Proprietary Information