AOOS Development Status

Previous years of work: 2005

General Summary

Providing data to AOOS

• Contact: Rob Cermak (907-474-7948; cermak AT sfos.uaf.edu)
• Store time as UTC/GMT (suggested format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.sss)
• Use metric units (native storage at AOOS)
• Large blocks of contributed data will be stored in NODC style until incorporated into the AOOS database. They will be assigned an AOOS accession number and made available for download via the website in its delivered format.

• Web camera image files: any format png, jpg, gif, etc
  • File format: sitename_YYYYMMDD_HHMM.fmt
  • Please coordinate with Rob on "sitename".
  • Sitenames in use: KNOW SHEL ABCam
  • fmt = jpg, gif, png, etc....
  • Time in UTC/GMT.
  • Automatic upload to: ftp.ims.uaf.edu
  • Username: ftp
  • Password: (emailaddress)
  • Directory: /incoming

Goals

• Create more standards revolving around CF2, NcML, OPeNDAP, THREDDS, OGC and FGDC standards.
• Consider these standard names
• Continue to enhance interoperability through OPenDAP, SOAP and OGC type services.

Contacts

• Rob Cermak - Data Manager [data/systems/web development] (cermak at sfos.uaf.edu)
• Otina Fox - Web Manager [Web application development] (otina at sfos.uaf.edu)
• Steve Gaffigan - Data and Graphics Specialist (gaffigan at sfos.uaf.edu)
• Bingyi Wu - Ocean Model Specialist (wby at sfos.uaf.edu)
• Lisa Baraff - Real time and Archived Data Discovery / Metadata (fslsb1 at uaf.edu)
• Igor Katrayev - AOOS/NPRB (igor.katrayev at nprb.org)

• Jason Grimes - GINA / MapServer (jgrimes at gi.alaska.edu)
• Charlton Purvis - Consultant/GoMoos (formerly SEACOOS) [MapServer/PostGIS]

• Molly McCammon - AOOS (mccammon at aoos.org)
• Mark Johnson - AOOS/UAF (johnson at ims.uaf.edu)
• Bernard A. Megrey - AOOS DMAC (bern.megrey at noaa.gov)
• Allen Macklin - AOOS DMAC (allen.macklin at noaa.gov)
• Tom Heinrichs - AOOS DMAC GINA/UAF (tah at gi.alaska.edu)

Meetings (2006)

Past Meetings (2006)

Reverse Chronological Events and History (BLOG)

• Link of the day: Encoding and decoding URL strings. Reduce the madness of passing or coding the right URLs.

• Link of the day: SciPy Cookbook
  Graphics the open source way.
• A collaborative wiki hosted by AOOS is now operational. This is the same wiki being deployed by IOOS/Ocean.US.
• New product: GeoTiffs of gridded ice concentration is now available. The source location for this information is here. This task is completed using the magic of python, mapscript(mapserver) and OPeNDAP.

• Bad communication at the University led us to unnecessary shutdowns of the server systems this morning. Shutdowns on the AOOS servers led to about 1.5 hour data gap and shutdown of the SFOS ftp server led to a multihour gap of ice radar and some webcam images.
• Working on the time element of mapserver.
• Reorganizing storage of regularly incoming and generated datasets. Adopting a general directory format of YYYY/MM/DD/HH. Should allow for easier subsetting for backing up datasets.
• Several meetings have dogged progress of AOOS development. We hope to regain forward momentum in March 2006 after the AGU meeting.

• Setup some arbitrary QA/QC for RWIS AK DOT weather network:

  Parameter	Minimum	Maximum
  Temperature	-90F	115F
  Wind Speed	0 mph	145 mph
  Direction	0 degrees	360 degrees

• Added some very rough QC items to scripts to clean up the general real time graphics for presentation next week.
• SELA2 as reported from the HADS network via SHEF code actually reports degrees C for temperature and dew point. Unfortunately, the rest of the HADS network sends in degrees F. This creates a need for hard code in the shef2nc program. Bummer!
• Updating SELA2 temperatures in the datbase and editing shef2nc to properly decode the temperatures produces a much cleaner map for the Prince William Sound area.

• IOOS DMAC MET teleconference

• CDMP tape modernization should finish up on schedule. 26 more boxes to head out for processing.
• Link of the day: NetCDF4 python module

• Pulling more tapes for the final run to CDMP. Approximately 20-24 boxes will be sent for processing.
• Formulated more about the AOOS DMAC agenda. Finally got to touch base with Rob Bochenek. 01/05:
  • Fixed up NDBC screen scrape data ingestion problem. Near real time was actually shutdown since July 2005 and data collected 12 hours ago shut down on or about late December 31th when changes to the NDBC website were made.
  • Testing movies via Darwin Streaming Server:
    fulltoportho_6fps_2.mov
    rtsp://ak.aoos.org/fulltoportho_6fps_2.mov
  01/18:
  • IOOS Metadata ET teleconference @ 9:30 am
  • URL of the day : Metadata tools
  01/04:
  • Project to watch : Tethys
  • Documentation : GCMD keywords