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Data ManagementKatharine Woodard
National Centers for Environmental Information(NCEI)
Others should be able to interpret the data no matter the time period (i.e. 5, 10, 75 years later; everything should be clear)
All variables should be defined
Verify that units (including standard units and time zones), location ids (latitude, longitude of stations), and other information are easily located
Think of other people reading your data
Problems usually arise, not with the quality of the scientific measurements or observations, but with the organization of the data
Examples include: omitted critical information (location, depth, date/time, etc.); inconsistencies within formats; untranslated codes; or "hidden" characters; incompatible record lengths; etc.
Problems
All of this is easy and quick!
Also easily forgotten about once busy on a project
Take the time to set up a spreadsheet prior to gathering data (or use a NODC template; http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/)
Look it over during data collection and after data collection has ceased
Common Sense
Data can be sent to NODC to be published in the National Archive
Can send via e-mail attachment to [email protected] or to me at [email protected]
Can also FTP larger files or send them physically http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html#fragment-1 Be sure to e-mail [email protected] so they know to look
for your data
Use Send2NCEI (S2N) https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/
Sending Data to NODC
Once published, you will be notified
You can find your data by searching in: www.data.gov www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search NODC Geoportal
http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal
Finding Your Data
Questions?
NODC Template http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf
NODC Submitting Data http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html
Send2NCEI https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/
E-mail addresses [email protected]
Resources
Finding Data www.data.gov www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal
Resources
Send2NCEI
Send2NCEI
Demo/Questions?
