10 | | As part of the data management activities in these projects, the ''ECOMS User Data Gateway'' ('''ECOMS-UDG''') has been developed by the [http://www.meteo.unican.es Santander MetGroup] in order to facilitate seasonal forecasting data access to end users. The needed variables have been downloaded from data providers and locally stored in a THREDDS data server implementing fine-grained user authorization and using remote data access protocols with data subsetting capabilities. Thus, users can efficiently retrieve the subsets best suited to their particular research aims (for particular regions, periods and/or ensemble members) from a large volumen of information. |
11 | | Since [http://www.r-project.org R] has been adopted for a number of tasks in these projects (validation, downscaling, etc.), an R package for data exploration and access has been developed ([wiki:./RPackage ecomsUDG.Raccess]) and additional functionalities will be developed to meet the users' needs. Moreover, a number of alternative tools are being develop in order to provide different user-friendly interfaces for accessing the information (Python, Matlab, web portals, ... ). |
| 10 | As part of the data management activities in these projects, the ''ECOMS User Data Gateway'' ('''ECOMS-UDG''') has been developed by the [http://www.meteo.unican.es Santander MetGroup] in order to facilitate seasonal forecasting data access to end users. The needed variables have been downloaded from data providers and locally stored in a THREDDS data server implementing fine-grained user authorization (see the available [wiki:./DataServer/Datasets datasets] and [wiki:./DataServer/ListOfVariables variables]). Thus, users can efficiently retrieve the subsets best suited to their particular research aims (for particular regions, periods and/or ensemble members) from a large volumen of information. Since [http://www.r-project.org R] has been adopted for a number of tasks in these projects (validation, downscaling, etc.), an R package for data exploration and access has been developed ([wiki:./RPackage ecomsUDG.Raccess]) and additional functionalities will be developed to meet the users' needs. Moreover, a number of alternative tools are being develop in order to provide different user-friendly interfaces for accessing the information (Python, Matlab, web portals, ... ). |