Data Sharing: CoRIS and NDBC

This is a followup announcement to an earlier post of mine, the one that talked about fully integrating the Little Cayman CREWS station's ocean and light data into CHAMP processing.  These data appear on our web page reports, are loaded into our expert system for ecoforecasting analysis, and are queryable from our CHAMP Portal web site.  Please see this prior post for details on the original causes of the missing ocean/light data and how we worked around it.

One thing that has changed since last month's post is that the concurrency problem with the CHAMP Portal is now resolved.  While there may still be some inefficiencies in serving very large data queries, there is no longer any user concurrency problem.  The CHAMP Portal can be found here:

http://www.coral.noaa.gov/champportal/

Another development is that the CREWS data and metadata reports were submitted to NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) on September 30th, 2014.  This submission covered data collected during the 2013 calendar year, and includes the first report of data from CCMI2 (for a period covering October 23rd through December 31st).

One way to access these data reports is to visit the CoRIS web site:

http://www.coris.noaa.gov/

Once at this site, click on "CoRIS Geoportal Search Tool" (prominently announced in the middle of the page, noted as "New!"), and then as a search term enter "CREWS AND Little Cayman AND 2013" (note that the capitalization of AND is required).

As of this writing this query brings back exactly one record, which is the submitted report for the CCMI2 site for 2013:

http://www.coris.noaa.gov/geoportal/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B8CB71F6D-1371-43E3-9CC7-C812E95BFAAC%7D

Other 2013 (and 2012) CREWS metadata/data submissions may be found on the CHAMP web site as follows:

http://www.coral.noaa.gov/noaa/coris/2013/
http://www.coral.noaa.gov/noaa/coris/2012/

On another topic, the feed of Little Cayman data from AOML to NDBC has begun, dating back to September 24th.  As is the convention with buoys, the Little Cayman station has been given an all-numeric designation by NWS.  This designation is 42089, although we will continue to use CCMI2 informally.  The NDBC data site can be found here:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42089

Please note that all of these data submission and feeds -- the CoRIS reports, the NDBC feed, the online CHAMP hourly and daily web reports, and the CHAMP Portal's data archives -- they all include the complete parameter set from the Little Cayman buoy, including the ocean and light data.

(signed) Mike Jankulak