1. Scott L. Cross, Ph.D. NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center / National Coastal Data Development Center scott.cross@noaa.gov

2. Outline  The NOAA archive landscape  The Archival process  Next steps…

3. Provide long-term data stewardship for NOAA, the Nation, and the world. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC World's largest active archive of weather data, which forms the basis of our understanding of global climate change National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Boulder, CO World’s largest archive of geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), Silver Spring, MD World's largest collection of publicly available oceanographic data. Data holdings include in-situ and remotely sensed physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data NODC/National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), Bay St. Louis, MS Services directed towards America’s 20,000 miles of coastlines

4. Capital ‘A’ Archival The OAIS Environment from Sea Level PRODUCER CONSUMER MANAGEMENT Preservation Planning Access Data Management Administration Ingest Archival Storage Adapted from

5.  Quasi-autonomous nodes (NCDC, NWS, GFDL…)  Only NCDC node currently linked to NOAA Archives http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/

6. CURRENT CAPABILITIES  Access to 3 operational models from NOAA & Navy  OceanNOMADS currently keeps the last 30 days’ worth of daily nowcast/forecast runs available. http://edac-dap2.northerngulfinstitute.org/ocean_nomads/ SOON  Production OceanNOMADS w/in noaa.gov domain  Long-term (years) storage and access

7. 1. Request for archival (data provider or user) 2. NODC preliminary recommendation 3. (CLASS OPB) 4. Submission/Archival Information Package (data provider) 5. Implementation – hopefully automated

8.  Do IOOS modelers (or IOOS user community) have a need?  What’s the right “granularity” – National, RA, COOS…  Do we need some kind of meeting or workshop?

9. scott.cross@noaa.gov