NCAR Research Data Archive

About

NCAR provides a wide range of atmospheric and Earth system science datasets, including observational data from airborne and ground-based instruments, outputs from community weather models, and large-scale reanalysis and simulation data. These datasets support research on weather patterns, the water cycle, and extreme weather events. They are used by researchers, educators, and policymakers across the US.

Integrated with the OSDF is NCAR's Research Data Archive (RDA), the centrally managed archive of the laboratory's atmospheric and Earth system datasets. When downloading data from the web interface, users are automatically redirected to the OSDF cyberinfrastructure.

Example notebooks that analyze data from these datasets can be found in the NCAR OSDF Examples repository and are part of the NCAR effort to utilize the OSDF.

Visualizations

Visualization of climate data over South America on October 10, 2020, using NCAR datasets.

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osg-htc/osg-htc.github.io/master/assets/images/South_American_Climate.png" width="600" height="400" alt="Climate over South America on October 10, 2020"> <br>

Visualization of ocean temperature on January 16, 2014.

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osg-htc/osg-htc.github.io/master/assets/images/Ocean_Heat.png" width="600" height="400" alt="Ocean heat on January 16, 2014">

The integration between NCAR and OSDF is part of the Pathfinders collaboration, a collaboration between five initiatives aimed at developing science-led pathways through the NSF cyberinfrastructure landscape. This work is funded by NSF award 1852977.