The Antarctic Glaciological Data Center: Continued Data Collection, Archiving, and Distribution of Results of NSF-OPP Funded Research in Antarctic Glaciology

Scambos/0944763该奖项支持南极冰川数据中心(AGDC)的继续，这是过去10年来由NSF支持的数据活动。该项目将继续为NSF OPP的南极冰川学计划和希望在那里找到数据的相关NSF计划收集、记录、发布和分发南极数据。主要的重点是存档NSF-OPP南极冰川学计划首席调查员(PI)野外、实验室和由资助研究产生的计算机模型数据(PI数据集)。AGDC得益于其位于国家冰雪数据中心的位置，因为它能够很容易地纳入相关的、重要的、由NASA赞助的汇编产品和来自该中心其他工作的其他数据集。该中心还提供访问数据管理和网络分发方面的广泛专业知识的途径。目前的PI数据集档案可通过直接从ftp网站下载数据获得。最近开发的网络工具支持AGDC数据集的数据发现、浏览和分发，该工具提供基于MapServer的地理空间浏览、排序和数据交付。该网站名为南极冰冻圈访问门户(A-CAP)，允许快速扫描感兴趣区域的现有数据，并能够在各种大陆范围的地图、图像和地球物理产品上叠加多个数据集。AGDC的学术价值在于，它通过促进数据访问和存档较旧的数据，直接支持南极冰川和气候研究，这对变化检测和项目规划很重要。该网站的档案是许多已发表的研究论文的贡献者。该项目的更广泛影响是，它将是目前全学科趋势的一部分，即与伙伴数据中心AGIC(南极地理空间信息中心)和MDIC(海洋数据和信息中心)协作，对地球科学研究和一般数据获取采取更加基于网络的方法。此外，通过向公众开放冰冻圈的“真实数据”，它促进了人们对极地地区和那里正在发生的变化的兴趣和理解。

Scambos/0944763This award supports the continuation of the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC), an NSF-supported data activity for the past 10 years. The project will continue to gather, document, post, and distribute Antarctic data for NSF OPP's Antarctic Glaciology Program and related NSF programs that wish to locate data there. The primary focus is archiving NSF-OPP Antarctic Glaciology program Principal Investigator(PI) field, laboratory, and computer model data ("PI data sets") generated by funded research. AGDC has benefited from its location at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, because of its ability to easily incorporate related, important NASA-sponsored compiled products and other data sets derived from other efforts at the Center. The Center offers access to an extensive expertise in data management and web distribution as well. The current PI data set archives are available by direct data download from an ftp site. Data discovery, browse and distribution for AGDC data sets are supported by a recently developed web tool that provides MapServer-based geospatial browse, ordering, and data delivery. This site, the Antarctic Cryosphere Access Portal (A-CAP), permits rapid scanning of available data for a region of interest, and the ability to overlay multiple data sets over various continent-wide maps, images, and geophysical products. The intellectual merit of the AGDC is that it directly supports Antarctic ice and climate research by facilitating data access and archiving older data, important for change detection and project planning. The site's archives have been a contributor to many published research papers. The broader impacts of the project are that it will be part of the ongoing discipline-wide trend to a more web-based approach to earth science research and data access in general, in collaboration with partner data centers AGIC (Antarctic Geospatial Information Center) and MDIC (Marine Data and Information Center). Furthermore, by making "real data" on the cryosphere accessible to the public, it fosters interest and understanding in the Polar Regions and the changes going on there.