International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA) Metadata Harvest for Oliktok Point Observations Field Campaign Report

• Main Authors: Morris, Sara, Uttal, Taneil, Starkweather, Sandra
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 54 Environmental Sciences; Arctic; The Portal; International Polar Year; IPY
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1579672; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1579672; https://doi.org/10.2172/1579672

The International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA) was initiated as an International Polar Year (IPY) project (Uttal et al. 2015, on-line release) to address key atmospheric science questions through coordinating the considerable atmospheric observing assets at 10 pan-arctic observatories (http://iasoa.org). The mission of IASOA is to advance cross-site research objectives from independent arctic atmospheric observatories through: (1) strategically developing comprehensive observational capacity; (2) facilitating data access and usability through a single gateway; and (3) mobilizing contributions to synergistic science and socially relevant services derived from IASOA assets and expertise. In April 2015 the IASOA science steering committee invited the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Oliktok Point observatory to contribute to consortium activities. The IASOA steering committee identified enhanced, cross-site data sharing through an IASOA-specific data access portal as a focus for ongoing consortium activities. The design intent of the portal has been to display the data inventories of all IASOA observatories in a succinct summary (Data-at-a-Glance) and provide the most proximal access links available to those data sets. The IASOA data access portal is not intended to replace the functions of existing archives. This succinct summary of data availability supports cross-site and interdisciplinary synthesis science activities. Efforts to enhance the legacy IASOA data access portal functionality have focused on two areas: developing a comprehensive and coherent data vocabulary for IASOA data and implementing an interoperable metadata standard for all IASOA data. The technical goal of this proposal is to work with ARM data managers to operationalize the export of metadata for observational data sets for Oliktok Point from the ARM metadata database. IASOA harvests data in the commonly used International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ...