Status Report: ACADIS

April - September 2015

Mohan Ramamurthy, Sean Arms, Jeff Weber

Strategic Focus Areas

We support the following goals described in Unidata Strategic Plan:

1. Enable widespread, efficient access to geoscience data
   The ACADIS Data Portal is creating an effective way to access Arctic data
   
2. Develop and provide open-source tools for effective use of geoscience data
   Unidata is creating an ASCII to netCDF translation tool that will allow a large amount of Arctic data to be translated to netCDF CF
   
3. Provide cyberinfrastructure leadership in data discovery, access, and use
   ACADIS is an exemplar for data portals
   
4. Build, support, and advocate for the diverse geoscience community
   ACADIS continues to champion useful access to data holdings
   

Activities Since the Last Status Report

The Rosetta project

Unidata’s main contribution to the ACADIS project was the creation of Rosetta, a web-based data translator. The Rosetta project is now being developed under the THREDDS project umbrella. Rosetta will continue to be developed and maintained for the Unidata community, independent of the status of the NSF recompete proposal for the archiving and management of Arctic data.

Ongoing Activities

The ACADIS team has submitted a proposal for the recompete of the archiving and management of Arctic data and is currently waiting for a decision from NSF.

Creation of visual displays of data transformed by Rosetta.

Prepared  September 2015