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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
GIS / Data Management Conference 2 April 2008
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Road Map
Project rationale and goals
Phased development and status
Current activities / focus
Future plans
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• Climate data key ecological driver
• Common data needs across parks & networks
• Leverage expertise
• Simplify reporting process
• Reduce time and cost
Motivation for NPClime
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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.
• Data discovery• Data acquisition• Data summaries and simple analyses• Graphics suitable for reports
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More specific objectives
• 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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Backend Services (Business layer)
Data and station metadata(ACIS)
User Interface 3-tiered design
NPClime Application
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Userinterface
ACISmetadata
Data access via webservices
Raw data
QA/QC data
ACIS Data products
Analysis engine (R, code, etc)
Data or data products
NPS Development and hostingWRCC - ACIS
Development and hosting
station ID
User
NPClime system design
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Status and accomplishments
• NPClime is up! http://www1.nrintra.nps.gov/NPClime/
• 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
• 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
• Inventories complete • NPClime up and running (but under development)• General architecture for analyses / graphics• Additional guidance or reporting underway
http://www1.nrintra.nps.gov/NPClime
Check it out!
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