1Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster Environmental Data Science & Systems Objective: Provide data management and data analysis to the research community and policymakers, particularly in the areas of: Carbon Cycle and Carbon Sequestration Climatic Change Research Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Ecosystems Biodiversity We provide access to value-added data and analysis tools used to: Enable an objective assessment of anticipated and possible climate change, along with the potential consequences of that change Improve the climate simulation capabilities of global climate models by improving the treatment of cloud and radiation physics Understand the complexity of the carbon cycle and the linkages to physical, biogeochemical & ecological processes, and human influences Discover and access a broad range of ecological and climate science data

2Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster Key EDSS Contacts and URLs  EDSS: Bruce Wilson (Group Leader) –  Ameriflux: Tom Boden –  ARM Archive: Raymond McCord –  CDIAC: Tom Boden –  DADDI: Bruce Wilson, Giri Palanisamy –  FLUXNET: Bob Cook –  MAST-DC: Bob Cook –  Mercury Metadata search toolset: Giri Palanisamy –  NARSTO Quality System Science Center: Les Hook –  NBII Metadata Clearninghouse: Tim Rhyne, Giri Palanisamy – and  Ocean carbon data (Alex Kozyr/Tom Boden) –  ORNL DAAC: Bruce Wilson, Bob Cook, Chris Lenhardt –  USA National Phenology Network: Bruce Wilson – Tom Boden Bob Cook Les Hook Alex Kozyr Chris Lenhardt Raymond McCord Giri Palanisamy Tim Rhyne Bruce Wilson

3Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster ARM Archive  Archive for the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) research facility  ARM research questions: –(Cloud occurrence and radiative energy transfer are major sources of uncertainties in climate models) –What happens to all of the sunlight energy? –How is light absorbed by clouds? –What does partly cloudy mean? Statistically? Spatially? –  ARM Infrastructure Mission: –Obtaining continuous field measurements  3 fixed location –Providing data products that promote the advancement of climate models  Archive Mission: –Store and distribute all data generated by ARM field operations to the research community –Interact with the data generator and data user communities to ensure continued, long-term data usability Contact: Raymond McCord

4Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster CDIAC  Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center  Primary climate change data & information analysis center for DOE  World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases  Diverse holdings –Atmospheric CO 2 concentration measurements –Other atmospheric gas measurements –Ameriflux data archive –DOE Ocean CO 2 program –FACE Experiment data –Assessment of emissions and impacts  Extremely broad user community Contact: Tom Boden

5Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster ORNL DAAC  Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics –Part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) –Nine other NASA EOSDIS Data Centers in different disciplines, at other locations  Holds and delivers data on NASA Field campaigns, regional and global data for biogeochemistry, and satellite validation –Also manages site information for FLUXNET  Provides a range of tools for data discovery, data visualization, and data subsetting –Particular tools to make remote sensing data accessible to field scientists Contact: Bruce Wilson

6Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC: Roles in EOS ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster Regional and Global Studies Climate Soils Vegetation Hydroclimatology 2. Validation of Remote Sensing Products Four primary roles, supporting: 1. Field Campaigns 6-9 year intensive study of a region: Amazon (LBA) Northern Canada (BOREAS) Southern Africa (SAFARI 2000) BOREAS LBA S2K In-situ Observations ? Remote Sensing LAI/fPAR NPP LAI/fPAR NPP 4. Model Code Benchmark Models IBIS, BIOME-BGC, LSM Manuscript Models PNeT, Century, Biome-BGC

7Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy  ’s from remote sensing DAACs  Project Areas -> Projects  Data sets  Granules  22 Projects; ~ 800 data sets; 400 GB  Data sets are in multiple formats, often text  Work with field investigators to clean up and document data sets  Median data set size is 500 KB –7 data sets are < 1 KB in total size –5 data sets are > 10 GB in size –Approximately log normal distribution ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster

8Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Data Flow Investigators Project DAAC Collect data Documentation QA/Process Analysis Publications Data Policies Data Protocols QA Review Integration and synthesis QA Review Documentation Archive Distribute User Support ModelsArchived Models Regional and Global Data (e.g. Nitrogen Emissions) Archived RGD Products ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster

9Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster ORNL DAAC  Key Tools –Web site and shopping cart for data  –Mercury (search for datasets)  –MODIS Fixed Site subsets and Dynamic Subsetter  –WebGIS (North America and Global coverages)  –THREDDS Data Server  –Anonymous ftp server for data  ftp://ftp.daac.ornl.gov/data

10Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy What is Mercury (aka Beija Flor)?  Tool for harvesting, indexing, and searching geospatial-temporal metadata –Support for multiple metadata standards –Primary use is field data –Multiple, distinct sources of metadata, plus free text –Links to data ordering and data visualization tools  Adaptable for use in multiple projects –Same core code; mostly configuration differences  Fast query time, simple user interface  Based on open source tools –Lucene, SOLR, Spring, Apache, Tomcat, Hibernate ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster

11Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL DAAC Mercury  Holds metadata for ORNL DAAC archive  Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) holdings –LTER also indexing ORNL DAAC holdings  Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) holdings  LP DAAC MODIS & Aster collections  Metadata catalog for data sets held elsewhere, but of community interest –Regional & Global Data –Land Validation ORNL DAAC Overview for ESIP Carbon Cluster