|
NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) to host Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) meetings [May 14, 2012]
NGDC will host R2R meetings for projects involving both the U.S. academic and NOAA fleets, May 23 to 25. The U.S. academic fleet R2R project is a partnership between academia and federal agencies to provide uniform data quality, access, and long term management of research data collected with public funds. Key accomplishments include the development of common metadata standards, effective work flow to efficiently describe and deliver data to the archives, quality long-term management and improved data services for easy access and re-use of data. NOAA is following the best practices developed by the academic R2R effort to effectively implement a NOAA R2R program. These meetings will provide opportunities to review and improve the processes in place and identify areas for collaboration. Both R2R programs support the National Ocean Policy objective to ensure efficient collection and sharing of data.
( or 303-497-6338)
NOAA Paper to be presented at 12th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference [May 07, 2012]
Dr. Janet Green from the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) was invited to participate in the 12th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, May 14-18 in Kitakyushu, Japan. At the conference, Dr. Green will present a paper entitled, "New NOAA Data, Products and Research to Support Satellite Anomaly Assessment" discussing NOAA's environmental datasets and capabilities. Results from Dr. Green's Satellite Anomaly Mitigation Stakeholders Meeting (Space Weather Workshop, April 23, 2012, Boulder, CO) provided strategic guidance for this new functional area. In addition, NGDC produced two environmental assessments relevant to the Galaxy 15 and SkyTerra-1 satellite anomalies which occurred on April 5, 2010 and March 7, 2012, respectively.
( or 303-497-4845)
NOAA Participates in Extreme Space Weather Events 2012 Workshop [May 07, 2012]
Dr. William Denig from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) will participate in the NASA Living-With-a-Star, Extreme Space Weather Events 2012 Workshop in Boulder, CO, May 14-17. Dr. Denig was invited to participate in a session on the "Existence of Extreme Events in Various Solar-Geophysical Records." NGDC provided daily synoptic data on the near earth space environment in the Solar Geophysical Data (SGD) periodicals from 1955 to 1991. In addition, NGDC compiled geophysical data for large to extreme geophysical events that were subsequently reported in the Upper Atmosphere Geophysics (UAG) reports. The full record of SGDs and UAGs are available online via the NGDC website at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/solar/onlinepubl.html.
( or 303-497-6323)
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Hosts Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy [May 07, 2012]
NGDC will be hosting the Director of the Chilean Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA) and the head of the Oceanography Department on May 17. SHOA's primary mission is to ensure safe navigation in fluvial and lacustrine areas, internal waters, territorial waters, and in the high seas adjacent to the Chilean littoral zone. SHOA also provides information on local and distant tsunami sources to the Chilean National Emergency Office of the Ministry of Interior (ONEMI). ONEMI is responsible for disseminating Tsunami Watches and Warnings to the general public and the media. NGDC and the co-located International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and World Data Service (WDS) for Geophysics operates the long-term archive, data management, and access to national and global tsunami data. NGDC will be providing overviews of the IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry, digital elevation modeling for tsunami forecast and warning, WDS for Geophysics, the global historical tsunami databases and the DART and Tide Gauge data archive. SHOA operates a DART buoy located southwest of Africa and several sea level stations for tsunami monitoring. Discussions will include the possibility of data exchanges between NGDC and SHOA.
( or 303-497-6429)
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Releases 'Gulf of Mexico Unstructured Grid Catalog' [May 01, 2012]
NGDC has released a Catalog of unstructured grids of the Gulf of Mexico (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dem/ugc/). This Catalog is a searchable geospatial database of unstructured grids that have been developed by different Federal agencies to support hydrodynamic modeling. The Catalog is intended to be a community resource for researchers to either access and use existing grids, or to contribute and share new grids with others. NGDC builds and distributes structured high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) that integrate ocean bathymetry and land topography to support NOAA's tsunami forecast, warning, and mitigation mandate. These same DEMs also support NOAA's mission to understand and predict changes in Earth's environment and to conserve and manage coastal marine resources to meet our Nation's economic, social, and environmental needs. The same elevation data that underlies these structured DEM grids, can form the basis of unstructured elevation grids, which are widely used by the storm surge and coastal inundation modeling communities.
( or 303-497-6505)
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) to attend the Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy (ISCWSA) Meeting [May 01, 2012]
NGDC scientist Dr. Stefan Maus will attend the semi-annual ISCWSA meeting on May 8 -10 in Edinburgh Scotland.. The meeting brings together scientists, drilling engineers, and industry stakeholders to discuss standards and new developments in down-hole navigation for directional drilling. Of particular relevance to NGDC is the ISCWSA Error Model Subcommittee. NGDC provides this committee with estimates of uncertainty for the International Geomagnetic Reference Field, World Magnetic Model, and the High Definition Geomagnetic Model. Drilling engineers require error estimates of the geomagnetic reference models in order to calculate minimum separation distances between well bores to prevent well collisions. NGDC's geomagnetic models are widely used in directional drilling for accurate well placement and collision avoidance.
( or 303-497-6522)
News Archive
|
