My too-brief study of the history of ocean/atmosphere open-data practice has left me in awe of all those who have worked on this problem for decades.
Importantly, in reading up on WMOโs Resolution 40 I also found hope for the challenges we, the Earth Sciences community, face today.
Come hear about how I see our open-data culture adapting to, and gaining from, the cloud-native paradigm.
๐ง๐ถ๐๐น๐ฒ: Accelerating Frictionless Accessibility for the Earth Sciences
๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ป: This Thursday (April 24, 2025) at 1pm MDT (UTC -6)
๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ: Livestream: LIVE: Computational and Information Systems Lab
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The culture of data sharing in meteorology is OLD. It dates back to the 1870s, and was first implemented over telegraph and mail!
This culture has dramatically flourished since then. It has adapted to the rise of satellite telecommunications and the Internet, and survived the Cold War and the โdata warsโ of the late 90s. Since then, the community worked to enable โdiscovery of and seamless access to dataโ through the development of metadata standards (CF, Climate and Forecast Conventions), a self-describing data format (netCDF), a discipline-agnostic data transport layer (OPeNDAP), and by pioneering the concept of Analysis-Ready Cloud Optimized (ARCO) data repositories.
On Thursday, Earthmover Engineer Deepak Cherian will reflect on how our work at Earthmover fits in with this long arc of ocean/atmosphere open-data practice in a talk for NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Researchโs Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) Seminar.
Come learn how the Icechunk format and the Flux data delivery layer are the natural cloud-native evolution of data systems ideas that have floated around for a long time, and what these technologies mean for scientific research practice.
๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ?
- If youโre interested in a short and incomplete history of data systems ideas in meteorology and oceanography.
- If youโre interested in how we adapt those ideas to the cloud.
- If youโre interested in understanding how we see these ideas influencing scientific research practice