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Enhancing access to climate model metadata via a web-accessible database
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Fernández, Ramón-Ángel |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | The Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) wants to provide the greatest possible public access to their climate model research databases. CGD recognized that the information from their climate model runs could be better organized to allow for efficient discovery, analysis, and sharing of the research metadata. A number of factors were identified, including insufficient information in the data files to adequately describe the data and the difficulty of automatically generating catalogs of the experiments and data. A web-accessible metadata database was developed to enhance climate model metadata organization and accessibility. Using the spiral software development process, an iterative database design and creation process, with rapid reviews of each design, was used to ensure that the final product satisfied the user’s requirements. The database was designed to meet a specific set of requirements from CGD for storing metadata from the Community Climate System Model (CCSM). A web application created a browser-based interface to the database that acts as a catalog for users to locate and sort the metadata in an online browser. Previously, CGD developers manually created a static website containing the metadata that proved to be time consuming and difficult to maintain. This project’s web-accessible database enhances CGD’s ability to share their metadata with the public, making their climate model results accessible to a much wider audience. This work was done under the auspices of the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA. SOARS 2005, Alisha R. Fernandez, 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://opensky.ucar.edu/islandora/object/manuscripts:458/datastream/PDF/view |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
