The NPS Enterprise Climate Database
Frakes B, Budde P, Nelson L, Kingston S, Stark J, Sherrill K. The NPS Enterprise Climate Database. 2012
The NPS enterprise database for managing and accessing weather and climate data. Understanding climate change requires the ability to analyze many years of weather observations. Unfortunately, data provided directly by common monitoring networks isn’t adequately processed for the purpose of trend analysis. Thus, when further processing is necessary, a strategy for managing the data is also required. To address this need, the Inventory and Monitoring Division (IMD) is developing a NPS-wide solution to managing the data. This solution includes the automatic acquisition of data from national weather networks, storing the data in an enterprise database, adding data that is further processed or provided by additional observation networks, developing tools for tabular and graphical summaries, and ensuring that the data can be downloaded for further analysis and processing.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Frakes, Brent; Budde, Peter; Nelson, Lisa; Kingston, Simon; Stark, Jeff; Sherrill, Kirk
- Units
- IMD
- Keywords
- Climate, climate database, Climatology, Data, enterprise climate database, I&M, I&M Climate Database, Inventory And Monitoring, Weather
Program
Products
- Requesting GHCN/COOP, SNOTEL, Stream Gage, Snow Course and RAWS Stations for Data Acquisition, Compilation, Basic Quality Control, and Distribution
- Processing Climate Data from the Authoritative Data Sources Using Automated Techniques
- Climate Database Schema, Table, Field Definitions and System Logic
- The I&M Enterprise Climate Database - Project Description
- Climate Database Web Services