IceBridge Science Team Meeting: NSIDC Activities

Marilyn KaminskiJanuary 20, 2011

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• Data brokering• Data ingest/archive:

– Ongoing flight campaigns– Pre-IceBridge data

• Tools & services• Value-added products

NSIDC IceBridge Data Management

Began work March 2010, with tasks broadly defined as:Archive all IceBridge data; only broker related data (e.g. atmospheric chemistry)

Also archive flight reports; Level 0 data; ancillary data; broad scope of pre-IceBridge data

Better-defined portal to include map-based access using geometry of flight lines

More clarity on what will be useful to community, and what is being developed elsewhere

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NSIDC IceBridge Data Web Site

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• Team focused on release of ‘09 Greenland campaign data as highest priority in 2010– Created “FastTrack” process: ingest of data as-is for ftp download,

with minimal documentation– Met 8/15 deadline for all data that were delivered to us (12 data sets)– Data is discoverable through NSIDC catalog, GCMD, ECHO; advertised

through RSS feeds and Data News page– Established an efficient process for future ingest cycles of data

• Many lessons learned in Greenland ‘09 ingest; process is becoming smoother over time

• Instrument teams have been very supportive as we worked through details

Progress/Milestones: Data Ingest

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Status: Data Availability

√ Complete

* Waiting for data

** Waiting for documentation

Cr Cryosat underflight only (4/20/10)

 

NASA IceBridgeAlaska

Glaciers (UAF)

ICECAP

 

Acc Radar Air

Gravimeter

ATM

Atmos

chem (br)

CAMBOT DMS

Ku-Band Rada

r

LVIS MCoRDS Airborne met

PARIS

POS/AV

Snow Radar

Lidar Profiler

Lidar Scanner

UTx suite

  L1B L2 L1B L1B L2 L1B L1B L0 L1B L1B L0 L1B L2 L1B L2 L1B L2 1B L1B L1B L1B  

Pre-IB In

Work       √               In Work

In Work

In Work       In

Work   

 

Gr ’09 - - - √ √   √ - - -   1 file √   - - √ √ √ - -  

An ’09 * * √ √ √ √ √ √ √ - √ PIG

data *   √ √ - √ √ - -

In work

Al ’09 - - - - -   - - - -   - -   - - - - - √ √  

Gr ’10 * * √ √ √   √ √ √ √Cr √ * *   * √ - * √Cr - -  

An ’10                          In

Work       In Work    

  

Al ’10                                         √  

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User Metrics: Registered Users

*”Distinct Users” = distinct per product, so total number of users is likely less

BLATM

2

IAMET1B

IGGRV1B

ILAKP1B

ILAKS1

B

ILATM

1B

ILATM

2

ILVIS2

IOCAM1B

IODMS0

IODMS1

B

IPAPP1B

IRKUB1B

IRMCR2

IRPAR2

IRSNO1B

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Number of Distinct Users*

# Users (Oct ‘10) # Users (Jan ‘11)

Product

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User Metrics: IceBridge Web Visits (2010)

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User Metrics: IceBridge Web Navigation (2010)

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• Now putting more focus on other tasks …– Engineering for robust archive and full-

functionality access by users– Tools & services– Value-added products– Outreach (AGU, CryoSat, EGU, …)

• … while we continue ingest cycles– Antarctica ‘10 campaign– Remaining ’09, Gr ‘10 campaign data– Other pre-IceBridge data sets

Progress/Milestones: Active Work

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Status: Tools and Services

• Portal Development– Story Maps and strawman interface derived from user

model– Working on architecture and database issues as

groundwork for prototypes and ongoing iterative releases– Planning iterative reviews with Science Working Group

• Tools page for user access to file readers and other useful software code (we currently provide ATM readers; community is welcome to send us code)

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Status: Value-Added Products

• Take it away, Ted!