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The IASOA Data Mission
To facilitate cooperative research and information dissemination, IASOA is developing two data utilities:
1. The IASOA Data Portal for Arctic atmospheric measurements
The IASOA Data Portal is designed to inventory the different types of measurements taken at each of the observatories, and whenever possible to provide links for accessing the data either through on-line, openly accessible archives or through institutional contacts for requesting data. Because of the variety of data collected at the IASOA observatories, this is a complex and evolving process. The IASOA community of data collectors is strongly encouraged to contribute to this effort by augmenting and checking the data portal information on a regular basis. To provide input for the IASOA Data Portal, please contact Lisa.Darby@noaa.gov.
The IASOA Data Portal targets continuous atmospheric data collected at an IASOA Observatory. It does NOT address data from campaigns, satellites or model output.
2. Tools to interrogate supporting data sets
Tools are being developed to extract time series of model output at a single grid point, in particular the IASOA Observatory sites. At present, a test tool has been developed for extracting model output from the following archives at the NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory:
1) NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis monthly means
2) NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis monthly means
3) North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)
To access this tool, visit http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/data/timeseries/arctic/.
The IASOA research community is strongly encouraged to suggest other site links that are useful for interrogating gridded (surface, satellite) data sets or model output that would aid in the contextual analysis of IASOA Observatory data. For input, please contact Lisa.Darby@noaa.gov.
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