NOAA requires a means of ready access to weather data across multiple repositories enabling seamless sharing of diverse parameters for all atmospheric layers and regions, to include data from satellites and other sources. We will deliver a pilot web application with all technical elements to achieve just that. It will be an open-source, open-architecture system employing common data standards and special features to enable the user community rapidly to extend the system to become a "comprehensive system of systems" integrating distributed global datasets for forecasting, decision support, and scientific research. The pilot WDL will feature automated processes for extracting and integrating standard weather parameters from data repositories at all available spatial and temporal resolutions. The system will accommodate data from spaceborne, airborne, and ground sensors, along with model and forecast data, and will enable users to locate, retrieve, integrate, visualize, and analyze atmospheric products for almost any application of investigation. SUMMARY OF
Anticipated Results: Phase I will deliver a functioning demonstration Weather Data Linker (WDL) that incorporates the National Digital Forecast Databases Digital Weather markup Language and its native means of communication. The demo system will be able to access atmospheric and weather parameters from multiple sites, including the NDFD, several NASA DAACs, and a GPS-ROO repository at NCAR. This demo system will lay the groundwork for an operational pilot WDL, to be developed in Phase II, which will go far towards achieving the comprehensive weather data linking and sharing envisioned in the solicitation
