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Enhancing Climate and Weather Research Through the RDA Data Archive

The Research Data Archive (RDA) provides comprehensive access and long-term curation of earth system datasets, including atmospheric, oceanic, and geoscience observational data. It supports climate and weather research through national and international data sharing agreements and collaborations with institutions like ECMWF and NOAA. The RDA hosts over 600 datasets, including high-resolution numerical weather forecasts and re-analyses. Users benefit from consulting services provided by skilled staff, ensuring effective data management and support for both academic and operational needs.

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Enhancing Climate and Weather Research Through the RDA Data Archive

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  1. CISL Research Data Archive

  2. Data Disciplines and Purpose Disciplines • Atmospheric, oceanic, some geo-science observational data • Numerical analyses and re-analyses derived from observations • Numerical Weather forecasts Purpose Provide access and long-term curation for earth system datasets that support climate and weather research

  3. What makes the RDA work? • National and international data sharing agreements • ECMWF, JMA, NOAA • Data archiving and access support with others at NCAR and UCP • EOL, NESL (MMM, CGD) • COMET, COSMIC, Unidata • Science educated staff members • M.S. degrees or higher in meteorology or oceanography • Core funded – assures consistent long-term stewardship • Know how to deal with large complex datasets

  4. What the RDA means to users Data Content • Over 600 datasets • Nine atmospheric re-analyses • TIGGE Data Access • Simple file downloads to machine interoperable transactions • Well arranged large high resolution datasets • TB size is the new norm for gridded datasets Consulting • Real people connected to every dataset • Skillful – software assistance, personal advice, problem solvers

  5. How we are meeting expectations Users in four service categories • MSS to CISL HPC environment • Web to world-wide community • Orders – one off consulting assisted data preparation • TIGGE 6 thousand users annually • FY09: MSS=266, Web=5649, Orders=196, TIGGE=44

  6. A Bright Future for the RDA New infrastructure leading to improvements - GLADE • More data online, approx. 130 TB in 2010, a 4x increase. Target is 250 TB in 2011. • Single data copy available to HPC and Internet • Abundant computing for faster turn-around on web user’s requests • Grid based tools for faster data transfer and expanded connectivity

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