Kevin O’BrienUniversity of Washington/JISAONOAA/PMEL

The Observing System Monitoring Center

Steve Hankin, PMELTed Habermann, NGDCDavid Neufeld, NGDCKevin Kern, NDBCMichelle Little, NDBC

OSMC backgroundDatabase of data and metadata (“realtime”)• GTS -- primary source• Data begins in June, 2004• 800 million observations from 40K platforms

Console to provide monitoring of• sensors and platforms• scientific adequacy of observations

OSMC Main console

All measurements for two days

Drifter measurements for May

May drifters with tails

Salinity measurements, by country

Tropical buoys measuring SST

Tropical buoys colored by SST value

Tropical buoys colored by SST anomaly

Reynolds SST bias underlay

GTS

OSMC

Monitoring

GTS

OSMC

OSMC

Integrated access to real-time Ocean data

Integrated access across Data

Assembly Centers

Software as a Service

ISO 19115

Cloud Services

Hyrax

Big Data

ERDDAP

Data Federation

OPeNDAP

Service Oriented Architecture

THREDDS

OGC

Situation:

A scientist that is developing an ocean model

Would like to compare model with in situ observations for evaluation

First up: Drifter data

Situation:

A scientist that is developing an ocean model

Would like to compare model with other models AND in situ observations to help validate

First up: Drifter data

Next up: Argo data

First up: Drifter data

• Limited data discovery/exploration

• Email notification required

• Access via ftp only

• Varying file formats– ARGO-specific netcdf – ASCII files

Interoperability Barriers

Situation:

A scientist that is developing an ocean model

Would like to compare model with other models AND in situ observations to help validate

Next up: Argo data

First up: Drifter data

Next up: Argo data

Finally: GHRSST data

What is integrated data and metadata?

– Discoverable• Requires quality metadata

– Accessible• Through multiple services (OPeNDAP, WMS, etc)• Without downloading• For in situ data abitlity to access “collections” of observations, not

just individual profiles, cruise tracks, etc

– Understandable• Conforms to standards and conventions• Application agnostic

For both humans AND machines

• FY12 – provide access to:– OSMC database realtime stream– OceanSITES mooring data from NDBC– SOT-XBT data via the Global Temperature and Salinity

Profile Program (GTSPP)

• FY13 and beyond– Published SOCAT surface CO2 data collection– UH Sea level Center– Tropical mooring data from PMEL and NBDC– Delayed mode Argo profile data from US ARGO GDAC– SAMOS cruise observations– Surface drifter data– Emerging platforms (wave gliders, pinnipeds, etc)

OSMC Plans

Thank you!Kevin.M.O’Brien@noaa.gov