The User Data Gateway (UDG)
The User Data Gateway (UDG) is the main access point to the different data services provided by the ?Santander Meteorology group. The UDG builds on a a THREDDS Data Server, UDG-TDS) and on a web portal for user authorization (the THREDDS Administration Portal, UDG-TAP). In addition to the standard web interface to explore and download the datasets, the UDG includes different (R and Matlab) packages for accessing remotely subsets of the data. A schematic view of the UDG is provided in the figure below.
- UDG THREDDS Data Server (UDG-TDS)?
The UDG supports the following international activities:
<ul>
<li>The group <B>PULIC_DATA</B> offers a number of datasets which are in the public domain (e.g. WATCH data, NCEP reanalysis, NCEP CFSv2 seasonal forecasting hindcast).
<li><B>?EUPORIAS</Ba>, <B>?SPECS</B> and <B>?NACLIM</B> (the European coordination of climate services activities ?ECOMS consortium). Global seasonal forecasting datasets from state-of-the-art seasonal forecasting systems (e.g. ECWMF System4). More info ?here.
<li><B>?VALUE</B> and <B>?CORDEX-ESD</B>. A reduced set of global post-processed predictors from ERA-Interim for statistical downscaling purposes (work in progress to include hires observational gridded datasets over different european regions). More info ?here.
</ul>
The use of UDG requires ?registration. Access to data is obtained after requesting membership to the different groups. The data in the PUBLIC_DATA group is freely available to anyone (automatic membership authorization upon request). The data for particular groups/projects requires membership to the particular projects (moderated membership authorization). Besides the web services for subset data downloading, different R and Matlab packages have been developed to remotely access the different datasets.
<ul>
<li> The ECOMS data access R and Matlab packages allow accessing seasonal forecast data using a single command (see an example here).
<li> The ?downscaleR package allows accessing observational and reanalysis datasets using a single command.
</ul>
The group also supports a node of the <b>Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)</b> which builds on the UDG-TDS and provides EURO-CORDEX simulations using the WRF model.
?http://data.meteo.unican.es/
All these services build on the ?computing and storage infrastructure of the group.
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These tools are jointly developed with different communities and are in continuous development (support from SPECS and EUPORIAS projects is acknowledged). </p>
The UDG supports the following international activities:
<ul>
<li>The group <B>PULIC_DATA</B> offers a number of datasets which are in the public domain (e.g. WATCH data, NCEP reanalysis, NCEP CFSv2 seasonal forecasting hindcast).
<li><B>?EUPORIAS</Ba>, <B>?SPECS</B> and <B>?NACLIM</B> (the European coordination of climate services activities ?ECOMS consortium). Global seasonal forecasting datasets from state-of-the-art seasonal forecasting systems (e.g. ECWMF System4). More info ?here.
<li><B>?VALUE</B> and <B>?CORDEX-ESD</B>. A reduced set of global post-processed predictors from ERA-Interim for statistical downscaling purposes (work in progress to include hires observational gridded datasets over different european regions). More info ?here.
</ul>
The use of UDG requires ?registration. Access to data is obtained after requesting membership to the different groups. The data in the PUBLIC_DATA group is freely available to anyone (automatic membership authorization upon request). The data for particular groups/projects requires membership to the particular projects (moderated membership authorization). Besides the web services for subset data downloading, different R and Matlab packages have been developed to remotely access the different datasets.
<ul>
<li> The ECOMS data access R and Matlab packages allow accessing seasonal forecast data using a single command (see an example here).
<li> The ?downscaleR package allows accessing observational and reanalysis datasets using a single command.
</ul>