Explore standard interface, conventions and/or platform for inter-comparison tools for observational, remote sensing and modeling data.
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Explore standard interface, conventions and/or platform for inter-comparison tools for observational, remote sensing and modeling data.
Discussion: Participants discussed improving support for observational, satellite and model output inter-comparison as a potential piece of common infrastructure. This could be as a set of common conventions, requirements, software and/or services. Current practice is often a “build it ourselves” approach. Several related candidate products were identified: a) requirements statement to identify common desired functionality of such a tool for AQ users, b) definition/conventions of a common “model output” format which, along with existing/improved format conventions for the observational and satellite data would allow greater portability between data and tools, c) an “inter-comparison tool API which would support development of services and clients for this functionality, and d) exploration of actually developing general purpose software and/or services for such a tool. Note that these first two products (requirements and standard model output formats) are seen as valuable because they inform existing tool developers about community interests in the near term.
Candidate Product:
- requirements statement to identify common desired functionality
- definition/conventions of a common “model output”
- an “inter-comparison tool API
- common software and/or services built as part of the common infrastructure
Near-Term Action/Product: Scoping document with outline of functional requirements and feasibility/utility check on development of common model output format.
Type of Candidate AQ Focus Area: Improving AQ Information Infrastructure
