[Rdap] Climate Data Question

Jonathan Petters jpetter1 at jhu.edu
Fri Jun 3 11:32:48 EDT 2016


Marina,

In my previous life I was an atmospheric science researcher, and have downloaded a reanalysis dataset or two from UCAR sites....

Without detailed context (e.g. which sites the researcher is trying to download from, which parameters they want), my general suggestion is that they contact the appropriate climate data manager.  In many cases there is one since climate data sets are widely re-used.  Some atmospheric science data centers have data request forms, while others just e-mail service accounts.

Such a data manager, properly motivated, could likely retrieve the specific datasets your internal medicine researcher requests and make them available via an anonymous FTP site.  If this support exists, I'd make use of it!

Jon

Jonathan Petters, Ph.D.
Data Management Consultant
JHU Data Management Services
http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/
(410) 516-5957



From: Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Zhang, Qianjin
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 11:09 AM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
Subject: [Rdap] Climate Data Question

Hi,

I have a researcher in internal medicine looking for suggestions on how to download climate data from NOAA online tools more effectively. His research is about analysis of seasonality in infectious diseases with nationwide VA databases. He has geocoded locations of ~130 hospitals in continental US, and is trying to get datasets of monthly mean climate data (especially temperature and humidity) from 2003 to 2013 for those locations. He checked several NOAA online tools, but could only find a way to order one location at a time.

Does anyone have suggestions on climate data download?
Thank you!

Best,
Marina
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Qianjin (Marina) Zhang
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Lichtenberger Engineering Library
The University of Iowa
2001 Seamans Center
Iowa City, IA 52242
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