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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Matt, Jonathan and Reid,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you for your suggestions!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">A few updates on this consulting request:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We contacted NOAA and they would get back to us in a few days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’ll forward the suggestions you’ve provided to the researcher for reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I appreciate all your help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Marina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces@asis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Mayernik<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 03, 2016 10:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Research Data, Access and Preservation <rdap@asis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Rdap] Climate Data Question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Marina,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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:
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NCAR Research Data Archive - <a href="http://rda.ucar.edu/">http://rda.ucar.edu/</a> - 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.<br>
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Unidata - <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/">http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/</a> - 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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Matt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Matthew Mayernik, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Project Scientist & Research Data Services Specialist<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NCAR Library / UCAR Integrated Information Services<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:mayernik@ucar.edu">mayernik@ucar.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Petters <<a href="mailto:jpetter1@jhu.edu" target="_blank">jpetter1@jhu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Marina,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">In my previous life I was an atmospheric science researcher, and have downloaded a reanalysis dataset or two from UCAR sites….</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">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!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jon</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jonathan Petters, Ph.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Data Management Consultant</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">JHU Data Management Services</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/" target="_blank">http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="tel:%28410%29%20516-5957" target="_blank">(410) 516-5957</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Rdap [mailto:</span><a href="mailto:rdap-bounces@asis.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">rdap-bounces@asis.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Zhang, Qianjin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 03, 2016 11:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Research Data, Access and Preservation<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Rdap] Climate Data Question</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Does anyone have suggestions on climate data download?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Marina<o:p></o:p></p>
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