Introducing NOAA's Climate Data Record Best Practices into NCEI's Center for Weather and Climate (CWC) ProductsDaniel Wunder,GaryEllingson,CandaceHutchins,andBrianNewport,GlobalScience&Technology,Inc.•JeffPrivette,NOAA/NCEI•TerryMcPherson,LMI

Poster:877

January,2017

Introduction• NOAA’sClimateDataRecord(CDR)ProgramwasestablishedattheNationalCentersfor

EnvironmentalInformation(NCEI)(formerlytheNationalClimaticDataCenter)inordertodevelopandimplementarobust,sustainable,transparent,andscientificallydefensibleapproachtoproducingandpreservingauthoritativeclimaterecordsfromsatellitedata

• Sinceitsinceptionin2009,theCDRProgramhastransitioned37CDRsdevelopedbyvariousresearchgroupstoaninitialoperatingstateatNCEI

• Fortransparencyandscientificdefensibility,theCDRdataset,documentation,andsourcecodearepreservedinNCEI’sarchiveandmadeaccessibletothepublic

ConfigurationControlisNecessaryforScientificIntegrity

TailoredProcesstoBaselineanOperationalProduct

• Tailorexistingprocessesasnecessarytoencompassamuchbroadersuiteofproducts• Rankproductsbasedonuserneeds,economicimpact,andcompliancewithdirectives• Initiateportfoliomanagementacrosssimilarproductsandservices• Maintainthecorevaluesoftransparencyandscientificintegrity

ImplementingacrossCWC

• Routineextensionsoftheoperationalproductaremadewhileallowingforsystematicdevelopmentanddeploymentofalgorithmimprovements

• Achangerequest(CR)issubmittedagainstthebaselineversionwhensignificantimprovementsareachieved• Theconfigurationcontrolboard(CCB)approves/disapprovestheCRafterevaluatingthelevelof

improvementvs.costofimplementingandsustaininganewversion

CDRWebsite:https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdr

50CDRs

Tailoredprocesses150CWCProducts

HundredsofNCEIProducts

ApplyLessonsLearned

NationalOceanicandAtmosphericAdministration| NationalCentersforEnvironmentalInformation

ResearchtoOperationsSteps

1)Assessment

SubmissionAgreement

Data

Documents

SourceCode

KDP*

AlgorithmDevelopers

DocumentHeader

Information

2)Submission

SampleDataTransfer

3)Transfer

SourceCodeTransfer

EnterCodeintoVersionControlSoftware

DocumentsTransfer

MainDataTransfer

4)Validation

ValidateCodePackage

Validate‘ReadMe’

ValidateDataFlowDiagram

ValidateMaturityMatrix

ValidateMetadata

ValidateData

CodePackageArchived

Documen-tation

Archived

ProductDataArchived

AncillaryDataArchived

5)Archival 6)Access

CodeMadeAvailableto

Public

DataMadeAvailableto

Public

CDRAssessment

*ORR=OperationalReadinessReview

*KDP=KeyDecisionPoint

Documen-tation MadeAvailableto

Public

Step1:AssessmentDetermineifacandidateresearchproductissufficientlymaturefortransitiontooperations.

Step2:SubmissionIdentifythecompletepackage(code,documents,anddata)inaformalSubmissionAgreement,suchthatNCEIcanplanforarchiveandaccessofthematerials.

Step3:TransferTransferthecompletedataset,sourcecode,anddocumentationmaterialstoNCEIforValidation.

Step4:ValidationIntegratedProductTeam(IPT)ensuresthesourcecode,documentation,anddataareconsistentwiththecurrentcodingandmetadatastandards.

Step6:AccessConductanORR*,thenprovideafullytransparentandscientificallydefensibleproducttothepublic.Availableat:www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdr/operationalcdrs.html

Step5:ArchivalProductisputunderversioncontrolandsubmittedtoNCEIarchive.Thisinitiatesstewardshipforaminimumof20yrs.

ClimateDataRecord:A timeseriesofmeasurementsofsufficientlength,consistency,andcontinuitytodetermineclimatevariabilityandchange (NationalResearchCouncil,2004)

ORR*