[Rdap] Climate Data Question

[Zhang, Qianjin]

Hi Matt, Jonathan and Reid,

Thank you for your suggestions!
A few updates on this consulting request:

The researcher is interested in monthly summary data of temperature (average, maximum, and minimum) and humidity (precipitation) for 150 locations of hospitals. Although he could locate nearest land-based station and order dataset for location from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, he’s looking for efficient way to get data for 150  locations.

We contacted NOAA and they would get back to us in a few days.

I’ll forward the suggestions you’ve provided to the researcher for reference.

I appreciate all your help!

Best,
Marina

From: Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Mayernik
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 10:40 AM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation <rdap at asis.org>
Subject: Re: [Rdap] Climate Data Question

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<mailto:mayernik at ucar.edu>



On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Petters <jpetter1 at jhu.edu<mailto:jpetter1 at jhu.edu>> wrote:
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<tel:%28410%29%20516-5957>



From: Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org<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
Engineering & Informatics Librarian
Lichtenberger Engineering Library
The University of Iowa
2001 Seamans Center
Iowa City, IA 52242
qianjin-zhang at uiowa.edu<mailto:qianjin-zhang at uiowa.edu>
(319)-335-5301<tel:%28319%29-335-5301>


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