The Climate Data Portal

Nancy N. Soreide
NOAA/OAR/PMEL/OD

The Climate Data Portal links geographically distributed in-situ data servers in Seattle, WA, Silver Spring, MD and Honolulu, HI into a network to provide a portal to distributed data in a common data format to researchers and modeling centers. The use of CORBA and LDAP services provides network "awareness" of the distributed data servers. Sophisticated tools facilitate selection of desired data from the large, irregular, and disparate collections typical of in-situ observations. Selected data from the distributed data servers can be plotted together on the user's desktop with a powerful networking Java desktop application or through Web pages. Technology spinoffs from the Climate Data Portal Project will be presented in other NOAATech 2002 presentations.

The Climate Data Portal has the advantage of underlying technology that is modern, utilizes off-the-shelf components, and is fully object oriented. Therefore it requires lower maintenance than older software systems. It is immediately poised to take advantage of the high-bandwidth speeds of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) to offer the user a level of interactivity with the data that is not otherwise possible. The Climate Data Portal is modern, robust, and scalable software which is workable today and extensible to meeting requirements identified for the future.

BIO - Nancy Soreide NOAA/OAR/PMEL Associate Director for Information Technology

Auditorium - Paper Wednesday - 1:00 - 1:20 P.M.