[Rdap] Climate Data Question

[Matthew Mayernik]

Hi Marina,
I agree with Jonathan. A couple of UCAR services that might a) have the
data of interest, and b) provide additional mechanisms to download are:

NCAR Research Data Archive - http://rda.ucar.edu/ - think of this as the
"reference library for atmospheric data". They have decent search/browse,
but you might also just contact them directly with the question, and they
could point you in the right direction.

Unidata - http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/ - they provide data "feeds",
including many from NOAA. Often these are real-time feeds, but they might
have a mechanisms to set up a feed for past time periods. Again, they
should have good support if you contact them.

Best,
Matt

Matthew Mayernik, Ph.D.
Project Scientist & Research Data Services Specialist
NCAR Library /  UCAR Integrated Information Services
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
mayernik at ucar.edu




On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Petters <jpetter1 at jhu.edu> wrote:

> Marina,
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> In my previous life I was an atmospheric science researcher, and have
> downloaded a reanalysis dataset or two from UCAR sites….
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Jon
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> Jonathan Petters, Ph.D.
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> Data Management Consultant
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> JHU Data Management Services
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> http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/
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> (410) 516-5957
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> *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
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> Does anyone have suggestions on climate data download?
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> Thank you!
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> Best,
>
> Marina
>
> --
>
> Qianjin (Marina) Zhang
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> Engineering & Informatics Librarian
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> Lichtenberger Engineering Library
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> The University of Iowa
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> 2001 Seamans Center
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> Iowa City, IA 52242
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> qianjin-zhang at uiowa.edu
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> (319)-335-5301
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