Search, discovery, and accessibility of field campaign data: status update
Poster PDF
Authors
Daniel J. Larkin — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Alice T. Cialella — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Richard T. Cederwall — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Richard Wagener — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kathy J. Lazar — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Karen N. Gibson — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Category
Infrastructure & Outreach
Description
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility receives a wide variety of data from different atmospheric instruments regularly deployed during field campaigns. In order to make the data publicly known and accessible to the world’s research community, a description of the data (the metadata) must be entered by knowledgeable ARM personnel into the ARM Field Campaign (FC) Database. ARM metadata includes instrument classes and categories as well as primary measurement types (PMTs) and measurement categories. The ARM website accesses the FC database to populate web pages with information from the campaigns. The Campaigns, Instruments, and Measurements tabs can then be used to identify data of interest via the website. In the summer of 2010 a significant portion of the field campaign data received metadata assignments. New instrument classes and primary measurement types were defined to pave the way for the influx of former ASP field campaign data. This summer all the former ASP field campaign data were assigned metadata. This required a formidable amount of effort to reorganize the ASP data to fit into the ARM FC data structure paradigm. By the end of the fiscal year, nearly 95% of all delivered FC data had been assigned. This is an unsurpassed level of completeness for the FC metadata assignments.
