Transcript Acquisition, Analysis and Application of Climate Data John Gross, Lisa Nelson,

Acquisition, Analysis and Application of
Climate Data
John Gross, I&M Ft Collins
Lisa Nelson, GIS group, NPS partner
Greg Hill, NPClime developer, NPS partner
Brent Frakes, Data Manager (and climate geek), ROMN
GIS / Data Management Conference, Ft Collins, Colorado, 1-3 April, 2008
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NPClime – Climate data for Parks
John Gross, Greg Hill, Lisa Nelson, Ed Debevec, Grant Kelly,
Kelly Redmond, Greg McCurdy
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GIS / Data Management Conference 2 April 2008
Road Map
Project rationale and goals
Phased development and status
Current activities / focus
Future plans
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Motivation for NPClime
• Climate data key ecological driver
• Common data needs across parks & networks
• Leverage expertise
• Simplify reporting process
• Reduce time and cost
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NPClime goals
The long-term goal of NPClime is to provide tools to
discover and use climate data for routine needs and
for sophisticated analyses.
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Data discovery
Data acquisition
Data summaries and simple analyses
Graphics suitable for reports
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More specific objectives
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Comprehensive inventory of climate stations
Web-based data discovery and acquisition
Simplified access to most useful data sources
General approach to data analyses
Streamlined reporting process
General solution to QA/QC and data management
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3 Phases of NPClime
1. Inventory stations & acquire
metadata
2. Data access, analysis, and
reporting
3. Long-term data
management: Ingest,
QA/QC, archiving, etc.
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Phase 1 - Station and metadata inventory
• 32 inventory reports
published in the NRTR
series
• Station metadata
archived in ACIS dbase
(ACIS = Applied
Climate Information
System)
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Climate Inventory Reports
• Climate monitoring and climate background
• Methods and results
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Appendices
• Monitoring principles
• Monitoring design considerations
• Climate monitoring networks
• Electronic supplements
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Phase 2 – Web-based access to data and products
• Close collaboration with WRCC
• Reliance on ACIS
ACIS - Applied Climate Information
System
• Collaboratively developed by
Regional Climate Centers
• Data ingestion, archiving, data
products
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NPClime Application
User Interface
3-tiered design
Backend Services
(Business layer)
Data and station metadata
(ACIS)
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NPClime system
design
ACIS
metadata
Data access
via web
services
User
User
interface
ACIS
Data products
station
ID
Analysis engine
(R, code, etc)
Raw
data
QA/QC
data
Data or data
products
NPS Development and hosting
WRCC - ACIS
Development and
hosting
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Status and accomplishments
• NPClime is up! http://www1.nrintra.nps.gov/NPClime/
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Basic functionality in place
ACIS interface improvements / embellishments
R interface architecture and basic functions implemented
Infrastructure & support
• Advisory Committee
• Draft template reports
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On-going efforts
• Application development – Greg Hill and Lisa Nelson
• Continuous enhancements to ACIS
• New data sources, interface and functions
• Climate data analysis and reporting
• Content
• Steve Gray (GRYN)
• Tim Kittel (U Colo, INSTAAR), Brent Frakes
• Templates for reports
• Automated analyses and plots
• Development of R code
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Programmatic benefits
• Web-based data linkages
• Generalized data reporting via the R language
• Powerful statistical & graphics language
• Open-source & extensible
• Integration / testing of IRMA services
Goal:
Integrate NPS software developments into ACIS
Remove NPS from climate data mgmt business
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Phase 3 – What’s coming
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Access to additional climate networks
Application development – robustness, embellishments
Increased ingest of NPS data
QA / QC
Long-term data management / archiving strategy
Finalize reporting and analysis functions
SOP-like documentation
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Summary
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Inventories complete
NPClime up and running (but under development)
General architecture for analyses / graphics
Additional guidance or reporting underway
Check it out!
http://www1.nrintra.nps.gov/NPClime
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