Beth Russell

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Data Updates for Science On a Sphere
Beth Russell Scientific Communications and Data
Specialist NOAA Science On a Sphere beth.russell_at_n
oaa.gov
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Outline

• New Organization
• New Datasets
• Updated Webpages
• Future Plans

Sea Ice and Snow Concentrations
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New Organization

• The FTP site is now structured to look like the
  data catalog with all datasets organized into
  five categories
• Atmosphere
• Astronomy
• Land
• Models and Simulations
• Oceans
• Each dataset is in its own folder under the
  appropriate category
• This should make it easier to find datasets on
  the FTP site
• There is an attic folder with the old
  organization

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New Organization

• The new folders contain all related available
  materials including
• P1, P2, P3, P4
• Folder with raw images named for the size of the
  images
• An equatorial cylindrical equidistant video
  (.mp4) of the data
• Text file labeled labels.txt
• Text file labeled playlist.sos
• Colorbars
• Media folder with images, videos, and supporting
  documents
• Similar datasets have been grouped together to
  reflect the website.
• For example, the aerosols folder has three
  folders in it, one for each of the aerosol
  datasets

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New Organization

• The playlist.sos files are used to simplify the
  playlists
• There can be multiple versions of the
  playlist.sos in each dataset folder make sure
  to name them differently
• The format for playlist.sos is similar to the
  format used for each individual dataset in the
  playlists
• There are a couple of new features

Black Carbon Model
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New Organization
Example playlist.sos

• NASA Aerosol Prediction product
• Black Carbon - Model Prediction
• Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120
  hour forecast
• name Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
• data blackcarbon_2048.mp4
• label labels.txt
• firstdwell 1000
• lastdwell 2000
• keywords aerosol, model, prediction, carbon,
  soot, air quality
• fps 25
• pip colorbar.png
• piptimer 0
• pipalpha 1.0
• category atmosphere
• creator NASA
• publisher NOAA
• URL http//www.map.nasa.gov/

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New Organization
New Features
Because playlist.sos is in the same folder as the
data you dont need to list the entire directory
location. Simply include the name of data. The
same is true for labels, colorbars, and pictures.
NASA Aerosol Prediction product Black Carbon
- Model Prediction Model Start - Jan 31, 2007
0000 hours - 120 hour forecast name Aerosol
Black Carbon Optical Thickness data
blackcarbon_2048.mp4 label labels.txt firstdwell
1000 lastdwell 2000 keywords aerosol,
model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality fps
25 pip colorbar.png piptimer 0 pipalpha
1.0 category atmosphere creator
NASA publisher NOAA URL http//www.map.nasa.
gov/
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New Organization
New Features
Keywords will eventually be used to help users
search for datasets. (This hasnt yet been added
to all of the datasets.)
NASA Aerosol Prediction product Black Carbon
- Model Prediction Model Start - Jan 31, 2007
0000 hours - 120 hour forecast name Aerosol
Black Carbon Optical Thickness data
blackcarbon_2048.mp4 label labels.txt firstdwell
1000 lastdwell 2000 keywords aerosol,
model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality fps
25 pip colorbar.png piptimer 0 pipalpha
1.0 category atmosphere creator
NASA publisher NOAA URL http//www.map.nasa.
gov/
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New Organization
New Features
NASA Aerosol Prediction product Black Carbon
- Model Prediction Model Start - Jan 31, 2007
0000 hours - 120 hour forecast name Aerosol
Black Carbon Optical Thickness data
blackcarbon_2048.mp4 label labels.txt firstdwell
1000 lastdwell 2000 keywords aerosol,
model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality fps
25 pip colorbar.png piptimer 0 pipalpha
1.0 category atmosphere creator
NASA publisher NOAA URL http//www.map.nasa.
gov/
The new library uses this category listing to
create a playlist for each category that includes
all datasets that have this in their playlist.sos.
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New Organization
New Features
NASA Aerosol Prediction product Black Carbon
- Model Prediction Model Start - Jan 31, 2007
0000 hours - 120 hour forecast name Aerosol
Black Carbon Optical Thickness data
blackcarbon_2048.mp4 label labels.txt firstdwell
1000 lastdwell 2000 keywords aerosol,
model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality fps
25 pip colorbar.png piptimer 0 pipalpha
1.0 category atmosphere creator
NASA publisher NOAA URL http//www.map.nasa.
gov/
These listings make sure that the dataset is
properly credited. The creator is the
organization that actually created the data and
the publisher is the SOS site that formatted the
data for display on SOS. These will also be used
in the future as a search tool, and also a way to
create playlists containing all the data from one
creator or publisher
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New Datasets

• The collection of datasets at NOAA is over 150!
• Some of the new datasets are in house from NOAA
  scientists, other new datasets are from other SOS
  sites
• We recently copied all of the datasets from NASA
  Goddard Space Flight Center to our SOS
• Our hope is to get datasets from all SOS sites to
  promote the sharing and distribution of the data
• When we copy data from a site, we put it on the
  FTP server to make it available to everyone

Great White Shark Migration
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New Datasets

• Some of the new datasets include
• Minimum Sea Ice from 1987 2007
• Greenland Melting Trends
• Sea Level Rising
• Loggerhead Sea Turtle Tracking
• Aerosol Optical Thickness
• NOAAs CarbonTracker
• Aqua Satellite with MODIS Swath
• Cumulative Earthquakes 1980 1995
• Jupiter with Two Storms
• All-Sky maps with Constellations
• And MANY more

NOAAs CarbonTracker
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New Datasets

• Check out the Data Catalog online to explore all
  of the new datasets that are now available
• All of the new datasets are available on the FTP
  server and are included in the gallery online for
  you to view
• As you make new datasets, let us know. If you
  are willing to share them, we would love to have
  them!
• We want to serve as the clearing house for all
  of your datasets.

Aqua Satellite with MODIS Swath
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Updated Webpages

• Some minor modifications have occurred to
  sos.noaa.gov
• Moved the Gallery into the Downloads section
• Made Datasets a category in the title bar along
  the top of the page for easier access
• If you have suggestions for things you would like
  to see added to the webpage, please let me know

Day Night Terminator
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Updated Webpages

• Probably the most helpful addition for you

At the bottom of each page in the online Data
Catalog weve added a link to the FTP site for
easy access to download new datasets
Check it out at http//sos.noaa.gov/new/datasets/
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Future Plans

• Currently working on script for a climate change
  playlist to make available to SOS sites
• Collect, organize, and distribute datasets from
  SOS sites
• Continue to work with NOAA scientists to expand
  our dataset collection
• Organize datasets into a searchable database
• QUESTIONS??