CEDAR Data Base Committee Report
Abstract
The CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Data Base began as the Incoherent Scatter Data Base, which started at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in 1985. The Incoherent Scatter Data Base evolved into the CEDAR Data Base in 1989, and has since grown to include data from 36 instruments, 15 models and several geophysical indices. The CEDAR program, including the Data Base, is funded by the National Science Foundation. However the scope of CEDAR science, and its Data Base, extends beyond the U.S., and is truly global. Many foreign instruments, such as the European EISCAT Incoherent Scatter Radars in northern Scandinavia, contribute data to the Data Base, and approximately 35% of the users of the Data Base are from foreign institutions. This report provides a reassessment of the Data Base and its function as CEDAR enters its second decade, and moves from Phase I and II to Phase III. This reassessment takes into account both the science initiatives identified as the focus of Phase III, and advances in computer and network technology which have so greatly expanded the range of possibilities for applying this technology to the solution of scientific problems. The function of the Data Base has been to collect, organize, preserve, distribute, promote and use data submitted to the Data Base. While this role will remain as important during the second decade of CEDAR as in the first, increased emphasis should now be placed on application of distributed data base techniques, telescience and computer aided collaboration, which were recognized as possibilities at the inception of the Data Base, but have only recently become viable tools for promoting CEDAR science.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA640794
Entities
People
- B. A. Emery
- J. M. Holt
Organizations
- National Center for Atmospheric Research