The I&M Enterprise Climate Database - Project Description
National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Division. 2013. The I&M Enterprise Climate Database - Project Description
The I&M Program has developed an enterprise database for managing and accesssing weather and climate data for all NPS. 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. IMD is prototyping this solution with some I&M networks to understand how this solution may be scalable NPS-wide.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Division
- Date of Issue
- 2013-02-21
- Units
- IMD
- Keywords
- Climate, climate database, Climatology, Data, enterprise climate database, I&M, I&M Climate Database, IMD Publication, Inventory And Monitoring, Weather