1 Web Services at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Steve Ansari, Rich Baldwin, Stephen Del Greco, Neal Lott, Glenn Rutledge NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center AGU Fall Meeting 2007
Mar 28, 2015
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Web Services at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center
Steve Ansari, Rich Baldwin, Stephen Del Greco, Neal Lott, Glenn Rutledge NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center
AGU Fall Meeting 2007
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Background
• National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) currently archives over 1.5 petabytes of data.
• Sources include in-situ networks, numerical models, radar, satellite and more.
• Manual access through web pages
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Implementing SOA
Different approaches for different datasets
• In-situ data:
REST, WaterML, OGC GIS Services
• Severe Weather Data Inventory: REST
• Model/Radar/Satellite:
REST via THREDDS Data Server
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In-Situ Data
• Network examples:
NCDC-ISD, NCDC-COOP, NCDC-15Precip, NCDC-ASOS• Metadata (station locations) in ArcSDE / Oracle Spatial• Time-series data stored in Oracle
• Metadata: OGC GIS Web Services (WMS and WFS)
http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/
• Data: Implementation of CUAHSI Web Services
Web Services will be available soon!
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/ - interactive web pages
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In-Situ Data
• Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI)
• Partners with state and federal agencies
• Defines WaterML – a specialized schema definition for water resources
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In-Situ Data
• REST Web Services– Simple access to archive data in early 2008 – Provides access to data at a station or within a
country, state, county, climate division, watershed– Easily extendable– Uses common names or FIPS identifiers– Authentication token– http…/servlet/network/type/location/variable/
startdate/enddate/output
• Output types (waterML, xml, text, csv)
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In-Situ Data
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Severe Weather Data Inventory
• Geospatial database of weather phenomena represented as point, line or polygon
Current layers: Prelim. Local Storm Reports, NEXRAD Level-III Storm Attributes (TVS, Meso, Hail, Structure)
• REST Web Service Access:
Search based on location, data range, within area, etc…
Statistics – count, summarize by hour, day, month
Output types (csv, xml, kmz, Shapefile, GeoRSS)
• Basis for SWDI interactive web pages / applications
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdi
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Severe Weather Data Inventory
Example SWDI REST URLs:
(Almost a Virtual File System – hopefully intuitive!)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdiws1. /kmz/plsr/20071101:20071115
2. /csv/nx3tvs/20070501:20070601?stat=count
3. /xml/nx3tvs/20070501:20070601
?radius=5.0¢er=-96.0,35.0
4. /shp/nx3hail/20070501:20070601?state=ca
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Severe Weather Data Inventory
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Severe Weather Data Inventory
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Severe Weather Data Inventory
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Model / Radar / Satellite
• The NOMADS project• Utilize NetCDF and Common Data Model for
interoperability, decoders, etc…• THREDDS Data Server – access to data via OPeNDAP,
NetCDF Server and OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS)• GrADS Data Server and the Live Access Server
Current datasets in THREDDS:
NARR, RUC, GFS, NAM, NDFD, Stage-IV NEXRAD MPE, HIRS, VTPR, SST
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• Foster research within the geo-sciencecommunities (ocean, weather, and climate)to study multiple earth systems using collections of distributed data
• Promote model evaluation and product development
• Develop institutional partnerships via distributed open technologies
• Provide distributed access to models and associated data
NOMADS GoalsNOMADS Goals
The NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System
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Jan-Nov 2007
NOMADS StatsNOMADS Stats
The NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System
Full File Downloads Subset Downloads
17,161,778 downloads 9,083,422 downloads
46.46 TB 0.85 TB
2.84 MB / download 100.5 KB / download
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Goals
• Ease of use
• Interoperability with existing tools
• Flexible, distributed architecture
• Data stewardship to multiple user communities
• Efficient use of hardware and bandwidth
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Data Usage - A Few Samples
• Engineering design: Ice loads for towers, cables, wires, etc Wind loads for buildings, etc Heating/cooling requirements Drainage/runoff extremes (pipes, culverts)
• Aircraft operations: Crosswinds (runway design), instrument landing systems, etc
• Space shuttle accident investigation: Nexrad data• Ship routing and oil rig placement• Global re-analyses for climate trends assessment, etc• HAZMAT operations and studies: oil spills, toxic release, etc• Weather risk management industry (now > $40 billion per year)• Insurance investigations and verification• Court cases and criminal investigations• Aircraft accident investigations• Wind energy studies: Wind farms, US and overseas• Commercial innovation and design: Typical and extreme
conditions for a new market
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Contact Info
Steve Ansari – [email protected]
NCDC Web Services website
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ws