NOAA Climate Data Records Access for Applications

Abstract:

There are many potential uses of NOAA Climate Data Records (CDRs) for decision-making and

catastrophic risk management assessment activities in the federal, state, and local government

and private sectors, in addition to their traditional uses by the academic/scientific community.

There is growing interest in using NOAA CDRs for such applications and straightforward access

to the data is essential if these applications are to be successful. User engagement activities

determine the types of data that users need, as well as the spatial and temporal subsets. This

talk will present the access methods currently available and in development. Alternate

representations and sources of some CDRs will also be discussed. Recent improvements

include:

1. CDR information web page

2. Dataset types, sizes, growth, latency, grid/swath

3. Dataset discovery, data access, and sub-setting.

4. Knowing our users and their needs.

5. Known uses of some CDRs.

6. Migration to CLASS.

7. Other representations - GeoTIFF, Obs4MIPS

8. Cloud applications – Google, Microsoft