Acquisition, Analysis and Application of Climate Data

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Acquisition, Analysis and Application of Climate
Data
John Gross, IM 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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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.

• 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
• 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
station ID
Raw data
Analysis engine (R, code, etc)
WRCC - ACIS Development and hosting
NPS Development and hosting
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Status and accomplishments

• NPClime is up! http//www1.nrintra.nps.gov/NPClim
  e/
• 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 Whats 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

Check it out!
http//www1.nrintra.nps.gov/NPClime
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