ACADIS

Status Report: September - 2012

Sean Arms
Mohan Ramamurthy
Jeff Weber

Strategic Focus Areas

The ACADIS group's work supports the following Unidata funding proposal focus areas:

Enable widespread, efficient access to geoscience data
The ACADIS Data Portal is creating an effective way to access Arctic data
Develop and provide open-source tools for effective use of geoscience data
Unidata is creating an ASCII to netCDF translation tool that will allow a large amount of Arctic data to be translated to netCDF CF
Provide cyberinfrastructure leadership in data discovery, access, and use
ACADIS is an exemplar for data portals
Build, support, and advocate for the diverse geoscience community
ACADIS continues to champion useful access to data holdings

Activities Since the Last Status Report

CADIS has become ACADIS and additional NSF funding has been granted for four additional years.

The new Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS) is a joint effort by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), UNIDATA, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to provide data archival, preservation and access for all projects funded by NSF's Arctic Science Program (ARC). ACADIS builds on the CADIS project that supported the Arctic Observing Network (AON). This portal will continue to be a gateway for AON data and is being expanded to include all NSF ARC data.