[talk] Accelerating Frictionless Accessibility for the Earth Sciences

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 WMOโ€™s 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.

๐—ง๐—ถ๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ: Accelerating Frictionless Accessibility for the Earth Sciences
๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป: This Thursday (April 24, 2025) at 1pm MDT (UTC -6)
๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ: Livestream: LIVE: Computational and Information Systems Lab


๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€

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 โ€œdata warsโ€ of the late 90s. Since then, the community worked to enable โ€œdiscovery 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 Researchโ€™s 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.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ?

  1. If youโ€™re interested in a short and incomplete history of data systems ideas in meteorology and oceanography.
  2. If youโ€™re interested in how we adapt those ideas to the cloud.
  3. If youโ€™re interested in understanding how we see these ideas influencing scientific research practice
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This sounds really interesting. Forgive my ignorance but are you in an area that observes daylight saving? So does โ€œMTโ€ == โ€œMDTโ€ == UTC-6?

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Yes, correct! UTC-6 Mountain Daylight Time.

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