LTA at NSIDCSummary of Activities, Current Status

Presented to PoDAG, October 2003

Ruth Duerr, NSIDC Operations

LTA - Activities and Current Status, presented to PoDAG October, 2003

Summary of Activities

• NSIDC and NGDC continue to work closely together to further our joint goals Collaborated on FY05 initiative

o NESDIS NPOESS Data Processing and Distributiono Some ideas adopted by non-data center NESDIS orgs

Collaborated on letter detailing the adverse consequences to NOAA if snow, ice and land products did not come to/stay at NGDC/NSIDC

Reviewed NGDC-drafted “Guidelines for a NESDIS Policy on Satellite Data Archives and Scientific Stewardship”

LTA - Activities and Current Status, presented to PoDAG October, 2003

Summary of Activities (con’t)

Collaborated on a snow and ice project for the NOAA FY06 PAC initiative

Participating in Boulder NPOESS Users Group, formed by C. Elvidge

LTA - Activities and Current Status, presented to PoDAG October, 2003

CLASS

• For much of the past year, NOAA has solidly maintained that CLASS would be the archive for EOS and NPOESS data

• CLASS as originally envisioned was a monolithic archive located in Suitland, MD and Asheville, NC

• CLASS funding for EOS data in FY ‘03 was zeroed out; FY ‘04 funding covers L0, L1A MODIS data only

• CLASS is in the process of being reorganized - a more distributed model seems likely

• NGDC has members on the CLASS development team (Eric Kihn, others)

LTA - Activities and Current Status, presented to PoDAG October, 2003

NPP/NPOESS Activities

• T. Scambos and F. Fetterer co-investigators with C. Elvidge (lead) on a no cost proposal to be a member of NASA NPP science team - no announcements made yet

• Florence Fetterer, NSIDC’s NOAA liaison, is a member of the NOAA NPOESS Data Exploitation Team (used to be the NPOESS Implementation Team)

• NGDC/NSIDC responsible for LTA for snow, ice and land data per most recent NPOESS ConOps

LTA - Activities and Current Status, presented to PoDAG October, 2003

Current Status

• NGDC and NSIDC are working closely together to ensure that archival responsibilities for NOAA snow and ice data remain at NSIDC for the long term

• NGDC/NSIDC LTA responsibilities mentioned in the ConOps for NPOESS provide hope that precursor (DAAC EOS) data will remain at NSIDC