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In March 2022, the FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act included language supporting NOAA Open Data Dissemination, formerly the Big Data Program, “to improve public access to climate change data and to transition NOAA data to the cloud.” Since 2019, NODD has been providing operational support for free egress to the public on NOAA data via three cloud partners Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. The benefits are multifold, including cost avoidance to NOAA, increased computational capability with the data already in the cloud, and democratization of NOAA data. The ease of cloud-based access to big environmental data, often the only source of the access to some real-time data, reduces users’ effort in data aggregation, allowing users to innovate their data analytics and technical engineering via cloud based tools.
Leveraging scalability of cloud solutions and tools enhances data discovery and identifies connections for technical innovation. NODD’s recent activities have been focused on enhancing interoperability, creating cloud-based metrics and user engagement by working with partners and end users. This session provides perspectives on these recent efforts, with speakers from a NOAA Cloud Pathfinder Project, NOAA cloud partner, and end users on benefits of access to NOAA data via the cloud.
Presentations (abstracts by session here):
1. NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Supports Line Offices
- Adrienne Simoson, Patrick Keown, Kate Szura, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock, Jenny Dissen, Denis Willett
2. Bathymetry Data in the Cloud
- John Cartwright, Jennifer Jencks, Georgianna Zelenak
3. NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Enables Cost-Efficient, Bandwidth-Responsible Post-Processing System for Realtime GOES-R Imagery Streaming in WSV3 Commercial Weather Graphics Software
- Paul Maravelias, Gene Pache, Samm Elliot, Jan Ising, Cristian Tanasescu, Allen Huang
4. Leveraging the Cloud & Microservices for NOAA Weather Satellite Operations
- Isaac Passmore, Theresa Cauble, Ryan Alberts, Allen Choi, Manuel Iribarren, Vadim Korotkikh
5. Key Considerations for Storing Data on the Cloud
- Tom Augspurger
