NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) Research Data Archive (RDA) contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.
CISL's Data Support Section, which manages the Research Data Archive, recently announced that users of some subsets of the archived data can request files in NetCDF format.
Indexed data access exposes the physical schema of datasets and makes violations of the relationship between coordinate and indices commonplace for datasets that change, such as aggregations of rolling archives. Making data requests in coordinate space will be added to the next generation of data access protocols, partly in order to solve this problem.
WSI Corporation and Unidata are pleased to announce the availability of global lightning data to members of the Unidata community.
WSI Corp.'s Global Lightning Network (GLN) provides high quality real-time and archive lightning stroke data to clients throughout the world. Lightning sensors are located at more than 150 international hosting partner sites, in addition to the detectors that make up the North American Precision Lightning Network (all NAPLN data is included in the GLN data feed). In the key deployment areas, including North and South America, Europe, and Asia/Australia, GLN detection efficiency values are as high as 90-95%, with corresponding location accuracies less than 1 km. Real-time data are collected in a 1-minute bin, and contain cloud-to-ground lightning stroke data and some cloud flash discharges.
In response to a Unidata Users Committee request, Becky Cosgrove, Unidata's NOAA/NCEP contact for CONDUIT, has provided an updated list of NCEP products available through CONDUIT. If you are enjoying the benefits of CONDUIT, please review the additional NCEP products available for distribution.
