CNODDS distributes real-time graphics products (weather maps, etc) as Tektronix PLOT10 vectors for display on dumb graphics terminals. The system is becoming obsolete as most users now have PC microcomputers and receive CNODDS graphics on the PCs using Tektronix emulator programs. Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOC) has developed an upgraded version of its military NODDS and installed the system at several hundred locations around the world. The upgraded NODDS distributes portions of gridded fields for contouring on PCs (Thormeyer et al. 1990; see Reference Section). In parallel with FNOC's upgrade of NODDS, NOS's Ocean Applications Branch (OAB) is adopting FNOC's NODDS PC software to upgrade CNODDS. Using the new system, civilian users will be able to download real-time weather and ocean reports, gridded analyses and forecasts and satellite images for off-line contouring, overlay and animation.
In addition to real-time data, NOS wishes to store at least 30 days of data so that NODDS users can reconstruct ocean conditions that led up to a marine event, such as a red tide, whale stranding or El Nino warming. This requires a fast, efficient database management system for storage and retrieval of all types of marine data from large areas of the ocean. The database system chosen is the Navy Operational Environmental Nowcasting System (NEONS) which has been developed by the Naval Ocean Atmosphere Research Lab (NOARL, now part of Naval Research Lab), in Monterey. (OAB is also located in Monterey.)
NEONS (Jerkevics et al. 1990; Shaw et al. 1990; see Reference Section) is based on the commercial database management system, EMPRESS, under the UNIX operating system. NEONS is very flexible and operates on a variety of UNIX workstations. An MS-DOS version is available and a Cray version is being developed at FNOC and NAVOCEANO at Stennis Space Center, MS. NEONS manages three basic types of environmental data: observations, images, and gridded data.
OAB has installed NEONS on a Sun 4/370 workstation to support the upgrade NODDS. FNOC gridded fields of real-time weather and ocean analyses and forecasts were loaded into the system in the summer 1992. 'NODDS Host' software to support NODDS PC users has been developed and, after the system becomes operational for real-time data, OAB will start loading delayed-mode data, including surface temperature and salinity from shore stations, surface marine weather reports (WMO SHIP reports) and BATHY/TESAC reports of subsurface temperature and salinity profiles. In 1991, NEONS was installed at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, NC to support the Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN), the Global Precipitation (GCPC) dataset, the Cooperative Summary of the Day, and the Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data set (CARDS) and, in December 1992, NEONS was installed at the Forecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder, CO. The NEONS systems has also been installed at the Canadian Atmospheric and Environmental Services in Toronto and Vancouver to support Canadian weather observations, the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne, Australia to support Australian and Southern Hemisphere weather observations, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and Cray Research, Inc.
NEONS is also installed at NOAA/OAR/Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) to support gridded climatological data and COADS datasets; NOAA/NWS/Climate Analysis Center (CAC) to support global climate models; NAVOCEANO to support MOODS and other ocean products; and the International Center for Scientific Culture in Switzerland to support ECMWF forecasts, wind models, coastal circulation models, and hazard simulations.
Plans are being developed by NOAA and the NRL to develop a network of NEONS systems to facilitate the global exchange of weather and ocean data.
Entry_ID: OES/OAB_NODDS_NEONS (MD Identifier: 4848)
Geographic Coverage:
Southwest Extent: 80S,180W Northeast Extent: 90N,180E
Source:
SHIP/BUOYS
WEATHER STATIONS
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEAN
Location Keyword:
GLOBAL
SEA SURFACE
Parameter Group, Parameter:
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > PRESSURE
ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS > WINDS
OCEAN DYNAMICS > TEMPERATURE
OCEAN DYNAMICS > WAVES
OCEAN DYNAMICS > WINDS
General Keywords:
CNODDS
DOD
IDN_NODE GSFC/NOAA/NOS/OES/MAID
NAVY
NEONS
NODDS
Science Review Date: 1993-07-29
Revision Date: 1994-03-01
Archive:
NOAA/NOS/OES/MAID/OAB>Ocean Applications Branch
Data Set ID: NODDS
Contact: OCEAN APPLICATIONS BRANCH, SUITE 101,
Marine Analysis and Interpretation Division
NOAA/National Ocean Service
2560 Garden Road
Monterey, CA 93940
USA
Electronic Mail: OMNET> OAG.MONTEREY
Phone: 408-647-4200
Investigator: MCLAIN, DOUGLAS
NOAA/National Ocean Service
Ocean Applications Branch, Suite 101
2560 Garden Road
Monterey, CA 93940
USA
Electronic Mail: OMNET> OAG.MONTEREY
Phone: 408-647-4212
Entry Author: IRVINE, DAVID
Hughes STX
7701 Greenbelt Road, Suite 400
Greenbelt, MD 20770
USA
Electronic Mail: INTERNET> IRVINE@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
OMNET> D.IRVINE
SPAN> NCF::IRVINE
Phone: (301) 441-4213
Information in this entry provided by NOAA/NOS/OES/MAID/OAB
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