PoDAG XV BriefingPoDAG XV BriefingNSIDC DAACNSIDC DAAC

27 September 199927 September 1999R. WeaverR. Weaver

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Overview Outline

Major Accomplishments in Last 10 Months Non-ECS (V0) Product Status ECS Status DAAC Interactions with Scientific Community

(EOS and Non-EOS) User Requests Budget/Staffing FY00 Activities Issues

Major Accomplishments - DATA Services

AVHRR Polar Pathfinder data processed and distributed (see TS talk)

TOVS Pathfinder Path-P published and distributed, 21 requests since release two weeks ago

WEB pages» Greenland and Antarctic DEMS (data and information)

» MODIS snow and ice products at NSIDC DAAC– (http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/MODIS/)

» ‘State of the Cryosphere’ released for internal review– http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/PROJECTS/CRYOSPHERE/prototype1/

» Related, by virtue of DAAC hosting the NSIDC website– Antarctic Ice Shelf Events: e.g. Larsen Ice shelf breakup

– SHEBA NTM data

– Antarctic Glaciological Data Center

Major Accomplishments - DATA Services

Outreach» Yearbook for 1998 prepared » Past yearbook articles published on

the Earth Observatory website» Hosted NASA DAAC outreach

workshop» Published cross-DAAC outreach plan» Booth staffed at AGU, AAG» Contributed to ‘Ocean Journey’

displays» Information packets assembled for

cross-DAAC distribution (675)» Completed survey of NSIDC NOTES

users for improvement and revision of newsletter

Major Accomplishments - Data Support

Near Real Time SSMI Gridded Sea Ice concentrations (NRTSI) distributed. Daily and monthly products

» Special processing to provide Near Real Time SSM/I Sea Ice Concentration data in support of field study in the Fram Strait. This request lead to the effort to put this product into regular production and make it available to the broader user community. It is billed as an interim product to the fill the gap for our regularly produced TBs and Sea Ice.

Major Accomplishments - Systems Engineering

ESDT for NISE product completed Completed migration of DAAC V0 data to new DLT library Continued upgrades to NSIDC IMS/EDG software Y2K compliance -- renovation, validation, certification of non-ECS system

and network components Completed operational prototype of a JAVA-based search and order

application for L3 AVHRR and SSMI grid products (GISMO) Procured Origin 2000 replacement for SGI Challenge L in Product

Generation System (PGS) Procured a CD-ROM stacker* for in-house replication of CD-ROMs

(*delivery held up over CU dispute with vendor) Three Data System Enhancement tasks started

» Spatial Query, Search, and Subset of Data Covering Polar Regions» Evaluate, Test, and Document ECS Application Program Interface (API)» Electronic Publishing

(Talk to Vince or Annette for details)

Major Accomplishments - ECS

Installed, checked out, regression tested NUMEROUS code drops, patches etc. to ECS system***

Completed TESS and MOSS-2 tests Staffed up for TERRA operations Completed Interim Operational Readiness Review Continued Operational Readiness Exercises

We also moved and constructed

Interactions with Interdisciplinary Projects, Regional Analysis Centers,

ESIPs

POLES (Rothrock)» On-going interaction through Pathfinders

CRYSYS (Goodison)» Attended CRYSYS Meeting (joint with PoDAG) Fall 1998

S.W. Regional Analysis Center (Bales)

» small interaction on data issues, limited role by CPP research scientists

Earth Science Information Prototype (ESIP) Federation» Active in Committee of the Whole, Outreach Splinter» Exploring cluster relationships

Alpine Drainage Basins (Dozier)» (No interaction)

Global Water Cycle (Barron)» (No interaction due to GCIP focus)

Interaction with Instrument Science Teams

GLAS» attended GLAS IST meeting, working with IST, SIPS groups on

ingest, archive, distribution issues AMSR

» Attended AMSR Team meetings -- working with IST, SIPS on ingest, archive, distribution issues

MISR» Providing NISE data product

MODIS» Attending numerous meetings

ASTER» GLIMS collaborations

SWAMP» Attended Spring 1999, June 1999 meetings

Other NSIDC Projects of Interest to PoDAG

SHEBA NTM data distribution (NOAA, ARCSS) SHEBA Remote Sensing data distribution (ARCSS) GLIMS (see separate agenda item) Pathfinder proposed work, AVHRR, SSMI (see

Richard, Jim, Ted) EWG Arctic Meteorology Atlas, NOAA (see Florence

Fetterer) CIRES Visiting Fellow Sergei Sokratov, 11/99-10/00

Users Origin of requests primarily by email FY98 requests totaled: 2094 FY99 requests totaled: 2098 as of 9/22/99 Serviced 400 standing orders to 309 individuals in FY99 Most media data delivery on CD-ROM Information and data requests roughly equal in percent of total Complete User Statistics Package via agenda URL link

Requests Users

New Requests 339 272

Subscriptions 571 335

FTP Access 7,539 Files6,449 MB

490 Hosts26 Countries

WEB Accesses 64,243 45,403

FY 97 Summary of DAAC Users(we are trying topull this informationtogether on a routinebasis for the DAAC)

BUDGET

Approximate FY00 Budget: $3.8 MY Approximately 40 FTE

» Of the 40, about 7-8 FTE are directly ECS-related at the present time

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Infrastructure

Production

Archive/Distribution

New Non-ECS Products in FY00

SINumber

Title Date Level

SI-105 AVHRR PP 1.25km data set Dec-99 L3SI-104 AVHRR PP 5km data set Dec-99 L3SI-129 All About Glaciers Oct-99 L4SI-108 EASE-Grid Global Land Cover

Characterization (ancillary data set)Dec-99 L3

SI-096 ERS-1 Altimetry Digital Terrain Ice Model ofAntarctica

Dec-99 L3

SI-115 Ice Sheet Altimetry from ERS-1 (IAS-2) Jan-00 L2,3SI-113 Snowmelt Onset Date Mar-00 L3

New Non-ECS Products in FY00(Up For PoDAG Review)

RAMP data product distribution» Proposed to collaborate with ASF, Byrd Polar on distribution

of products.– Accepted in principle

– Internal web page with few examples produced

Non-ECS Activities in FY00

Data related» SHEBA field campaign data -- assess archival resource

need» PARCA -- assess when/if data are placed in DAAC» Regional Analysis Centers -- MODIS data to SW-RESAC?» Climate Data for Modellers

– webpage to assist modellers

– make existing NSIDC tools more available

– repackage NSIDC data to meet modeller needs

» WCRP GCOS/GTOS TOPC, ACSYS, CLIC (see later update by RGB)

Other Products» ‘All About Glaciers’ webpage

NON-ECS Activities in FY00

SMMR-SSMI» EASE grid TB data continues» Polar Stereo data continues (TB, seaice) » NRTSI public release imminent» NISE continues

Pathfinders» AVHRR 1.25 and 5 km acquisition and products continue» RAMP data distribution» ALT-DEM data distribution» TOVS, assess extending timeseries, acquire L1B?

Snowmelt Onset Date at High Latitudes Using EASE-Grid SSM/I Data" (ice sheets, land (non-forested, sea ice is correct)

Non-ECS Activities in FY00

Sustaining Engineering Tasks» Request tracking system upgrades, data migration» Upgrade web servers» Upgrade production, distribution environment

Other » Website Revamp

– prepare for TERRA data services– improve site nagivation– bring our website into conformity with other DAAC websites

» Outreach– USWG activities– Booth(s) at conferences– Cross-DAAC website - electronic publishing– DAAC yearbook

What is What is this?this?

Approximately one Watt on a meter square

ECS Activities in FY00

Data Products» MODIS Science Operations -- Distribute S/I products

Mission Coordination/Engineering» ASTER - GLIMS coordination (see GS presentation)» AMSR/AMSR-E

– Formal NSIDC Product Team

– Appoint AMSR Technical Lead

– ESDTs, ICD with AMSR SIPS, PDR Server development

» GLAS– Formal NSIDC Product Team

– Appoint AMSR Technical Lead

– ESDTs, ICE with GLAS SIPS/IST, PDR Server development

ECS Activities in FY00

Systems» INSTALL, checkout, INSTALL, checkout, INSTALL checkout

– drop 5B, patches

» Operational Sustaining Engineering

Development» Continue Data Systems Engineering Tasks

Other» NEW DISS» ESIP Federation» PoDAG» Partington data study» American Polar Society meeting in Boulder (Oct 2000)

Meeting Discussion Issues

No burning ‘critical’ issues Longer term questions

» How long after AMSR/AMSR-E data availability do we maintain SSMI? To the end of SSMI satellite series?

» Affirm PoDAG commitment to ingest and distribution of AVHRR data until TERRA L+18mo

Heads up» Charging for media delivery of NASA

products may be on the way.– Does PoDAG want to study further?

Make a statement?

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