# Presentation: 118351

## Data Updates for 

**Beth Russell**
**Scientific Communications and Data Specialist**
**NOAA Science On a Sphere**
**beth.russell@noaa.gov**

**Data Updates for **
**Science On a Sphere**

## New Organization

- New Datasets
- Updated Webpages
- Future Plans

- Outline

*Sea Ice and Snow Concentrations*

## New Organization

- The FTP site is now structured to look like the data catalog with all datasets organized into five categories:
- Atmosphere
- Astronomy
- Land
- Models and Simulations
- Oceans
- Each dataset is in it’s own folder under the appropriate category
- This should make it easier to find datasets on the FTP site
- There is an “attic” folder with the old organization

## The new folders contain all related available materials including:
P1, P2, P3, P4 
Folder with raw images named for the size of the images
An equatorial cylindrical equidistant video (.mp4) of the data
Text file labeled labels.txt
Text file labeled playlist.sos
Colorbars
Media folder with images, videos, and supporting documents
Similar datasets have been grouped together to reflect the website.  
For example, the “aerosols” folder has three folders in it, one for each of the aerosol datasets

- P1, P2, P3, P4
- Folder with raw images named for the size of the images
- An equatorial cylindrical equidistant video (.mp4) of the data
- Text file labeled labels.txt
- Text file labeled playlist.sos
- Colorbars
- Media folder with images, videos, and supporting documents
- Similar datasets have been grouped together to reflect the website.
- For example, the “aerosols” folder has three folders in it, one for each of the aerosol datasets

- New Organization

## The playlist.sos files are used to simplify the playlists
There can be multiple versions of the playlist.sos in each dataset folder – make sure to name them differently
The format for playlist.sos is similar to the format used for each individual dataset in the playlists
There are a couple of new features

- There can be multiple versions of the playlist.sos in each dataset folder – make sure to name them differently
- The format for playlist.sos is similar to the format used for each individual dataset in the playlists
- There are a couple of new features

- New Organization

*Black Carbon Model*

## # NASA Aerosol Prediction product
# Black Carbon - Model Prediction
#  Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120 hour forecast
name = Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
data = blackcarbon_2048.mp4
label = labels.txt
firstdwell = 1000
lastdwell = 2000
keywords = aerosol, model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality
fps = 25
pip = colorbar.png
piptimer = 0
pipalpha = 1.0
category = atmosphere
creator = NASA
publisher = NOAA
# URL = http://www.map.nasa.gov/

- # Black Carbon - Model Prediction
- #  Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120 hour forecast
- name = Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
- data = blackcarbon_2048.mp4
- label = labels.txt
- firstdwell = 1000
- lastdwell = 2000
- keywords = aerosol, model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality
- fps = 25
- pip = colorbar.png
- piptimer = 0
- pipalpha = 1.0
- category = atmosphere
- creator = NASA
- publisher = NOAA
- # URL = http://www.map.nasa.gov/

- New Organization

- Example playlist.sos:

## New Organization

- # NASA Aerosol Prediction product
- # Black Carbon - Model Prediction
- #  Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120 hour forecast
- name = Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
- data = blackcarbon_2048.mp4
- label = labels.txt
- firstdwell = 1000
- lastdwell = 2000
- keywords = aerosol, model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality
- fps = 25
- pip = colorbar.png
- piptimer = 0
- pipalpha = 1.0
- category = atmosphere
- creator = NASA
- publisher = NOAA
- # URL = http://www.map.nasa.gov/

- New Features:

- Because playlist.sos is in the same folder as the data you don’t need to list the entire directory location.  Simply include the name of data.  The same is true for labels, colorbars, and pictures.

## New Organization

- # NASA Aerosol Prediction product
- # Black Carbon - Model Prediction
- #  Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120 hour forecast
- name = Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
- data = blackcarbon_2048.mp4
- label = labels.txt
- firstdwell = 1000
- lastdwell = 2000
- keywords = aerosol, model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality
- fps = 25
- pip = colorbar.png
- piptimer = 0
- pipalpha = 1.0
- category = atmosphere
- creator = NASA
- publisher = NOAA
- # URL = http://www.map.nasa.gov/

- New Features:

- Keywords will eventually be used to help users search for datasets.  (This hasn’t yet been added to all of the datasets.)

## New Organization

- # NASA Aerosol Prediction product
- # Black Carbon - Model Prediction
- #  Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120 hour forecast
- name = Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
- data = blackcarbon_2048.mp4
- label = labels.txt
- firstdwell = 1000
- lastdwell = 2000
- keywords = aerosol, model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality
- fps = 25
- pip = colorbar.png
- piptimer = 0
- pipalpha = 1.0
- category = atmosphere
- creator = NASA
- publisher = NOAA
- # URL = http://www.map.nasa.gov/

- New Features:

- The new library uses this category listing to create a playlist for each category that includes all datasets that have this in their playlist.sos.

## New Organization

- # NASA Aerosol Prediction product
- # Black Carbon - Model Prediction
- #  Model Start - Jan 31, 2007 0000 hours - 120 hour forecast
- name = Aerosol Black Carbon Optical Thickness
- data = blackcarbon_2048.mp4
- label = labels.txt
- firstdwell = 1000
- lastdwell = 2000
- keywords = aerosol, model, prediction, carbon, soot, air quality
- fps = 25
- pip = colorbar.png
- piptimer = 0
- pipalpha = 1.0
- category = atmosphere
- creator = NASA
- publisher = NOAA
- # URL = http://www.map.nasa.gov/

- New Features:

- These listings make sure that the dataset is properly credited.  The creator is the organization that actually created the data and the publisher is the SOS site that formatted the data for display on SOS.  These will also be used in the future as a search tool, and also a way to create playlists containing all the data from one creator or publisher

## The collection of datasets at NOAA is over 150!
Some of the new datasets are in house from NOAA scientists, other new datasets are from other SOS sites
We recently copied all of the datasets from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to our SOS
Our hope is to get datasets from all SOS sites to promote the sharing and distribution of the data
When we copy data from a site, we put it on the FTP server to make it available to everyone

- Some of the new datasets are in house from NOAA scientists, other new datasets are from other SOS sites
- We recently copied all of the datasets from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to our SOS
- Our hope is to get datasets from all SOS sites to promote the sharing and distribution of the data
- When we copy data from a site, we put it on the FTP server to make it available to everyone

- New Datasets

*Great White Shark Migration*

## Some of the new datasets include:
Minimum Sea Ice from 1987 – 2007
Greenland Melting Trends
Sea Level Rising
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Tracking
Aerosol Optical Thickness
NOAA’s CarbonTracker
Aqua Satellite with MODIS Swath
Cumulative Earthquakes 1980 – 1995
Jupiter with Two Storms
All-Sky maps with Constellations
And MANY more ...

- Minimum Sea Ice from 1987 – 2007
- Greenland Melting Trends
- Sea Level Rising
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle Tracking
- Aerosol Optical Thickness
- NOAA’s CarbonTracker
- Aqua Satellite with MODIS Swath
- Cumulative Earthquakes 1980 – 1995
- Jupiter with Two Storms
- All-Sky maps with Constellations
- And MANY more ...

- New Datasets

*NOAA’s CarbonTracker*

## Check out the Data Catalog online to explore all of the new datasets that are now available
All of the new datasets are available on the FTP server and are included in the gallery online for you to view
As you make new datasets, let us know.  If you are willing to share them, we would love to have them!
We want to serve as the “clearing house” for all of your datasets.

- All of the new datasets are available on the FTP server and are included in the gallery online for you to view
- As you make new datasets, let us know.  If you are willing to share them, we would love to have them!
- We want to serve as the “clearing house” for all of your datasets.

- New Datasets

*Aqua Satellite with MODIS Swath*

## Some minor modifications have occurred to sos.noaa.gov
Moved the “Gallery” into the “Downloads” section
Made “Datasets” a category in the title bar along the top of the page for easier access
If you have suggestions for things you would like to see added to the webpage, please let me know

- Moved the “Gallery” into the “Downloads” section
- Made “Datasets” a category in the title bar along the top of the page for easier access
- If you have suggestions for things you would like to see added to the webpage, please let me know

- Updated Webpages

*Day Night Terminator*

## Probably the most helpful addition for you:

- Updated Webpages

- At the bottom of each page in the online Data Catalog we’ve added a link to the FTP site for easy access to download new datasets

- Check it out at: http://sos.noaa.gov/new/datasets/

## Currently working on script for a climate change playlist to make available to SOS sites
Collect, organize, and distribute datasets from SOS sites
Continue to work with NOAA scientists to expand our dataset collection
Organize datasets into a searchable database

QUESTIONS??

- Collect, organize, and distribute datasets from SOS sites
- Continue to work with NOAA scientists to expand our dataset collection
- Organize datasets into a searchable database
- QUESTIONS??

- Future Plans