CADIS

Status Report: October - 2010

Mohan Ramamurthy
Jeff Weber

Strategic Focus Areas

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

• 1-Broadening participation and expanding community services
  
• 2-Advancing data services
  
• 3-Developing and deploying useful tools
  
• 5-Providing leadership in cyberinfrastructure
  
• 6-Promoting diversity by expanding opportunities
  

Activities Since the Last Status Report

ASCII -> netCDF

Unidata is transforming the "top 10" CADIS datasets into netCDF-CF, where possible. The top ten were gained from use metrics, and it is our hope to provide these data in a format that provides inter-operabilty and adheres to standards. The first dataset we are transforming is from the "switchyard" (an area of Arctic and Atlantic ocean water exchange NW of Greenland)

• Information about the data
• ~4400 data points- per drop
• Downward profile
• Measures:
  Depth (m)
  Pressure (dbar)
  Temperature in situ (deg C)
  Potential Temperature (deg C)
  Conductivity (S/m)
  Salinity (psu)
  Density (sigma-theta)
  Dissolved Oxygen (ml/l)
  Dissolved Oxygen (micro-mol/kg)
  Dissolved Oxygen (Percent Saturation)
  

Ongoing Activities

We plan to continue the following activies:

• ASCII -> netCDF transformations
• IDV visualizations

Prepared October 2010