H42A-03
Realizing the potential of the CUAHSI Water Data Center to advance Earth Science
Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:50
3014 (Moscone West)
Richard P Hooper1, Martin Seul1, Jon Pollak2, Alva Couch1 and CUAHSI Water Data Center Team, (1)Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Water Data Center, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States
Abstract:
The CUAHSI Water Data Center has developed a cloud-based system for data publication, discovery and access. Key features of this system are a semantically enabled catalog to discover data across more than 100 different services and delivery of data and metadata in a standard format. While this represents a significant technical achievement, the purpose of this system is to support data reanalysis for advancing science. A new web-based client, HydroClient, improves access to the data from previous clients. This client is envisioned as the first step in a workflow that can involve visualization and analysis using web-processing services, followed by download to local computers for further analysis. The release of the WaterML library in the R package CRAN repository is an initial attempt at linking the WDC services in a larger analysis workflow. We are seeking community input on other resources required to make the WDC services more valuable in scientific research and education.
