Strategic Focus Areas

The ACADIS 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

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.

CADIS -> ACADIS Ongoing Activities

We plan to continue the following activies:

• ASCII to netCDF transformations
• IDV visualizations

ASCII to netCDF Utility

Unidata is developing an ASCII to netCDF CF1.6 translator

The application will be available for broader use to the entire Unidata community

IDV visualization of the ACADIS data will benefit from this effort

New Opportunities

ACADIS is working towards providing Data Management Plan strategies for NSF proposals

Please see: Word document

Relevant Metrics

ACADIS now holds metadata and data, or metadata alone (with link to external data), for about 30 AON projects

~30,000 files

~125 Gigabytes

ACADIS Home Page

Prepared March 2012