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Merged Observatory Data Files (MODFs) fromthe International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere
in support of the WMO Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP)Making Complex Model and Observations Data Interoperable
Taneil Uttal ([email protected]) and Janet Intrieri (NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO), Emily Osborne (NOAA/OAR/GOMO/ARP, Silver Springs, MD), Robert Grumbine (NOAA/NWS/EMC/MDAB, College Park MD), Elena Konopleva (Science Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO), Sara Morris, Christopher Cox, Ola Persson, Andrey Grachev, Matthew Shupe, Gijs de Boer, and Amy Solomon (Cooperative Institute for Studies of Environmental Sciences, Boulder CO), Barbara Casati (Environmental and Climate Change Canada, Montreal, Canada), Jonathan Day (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom), Gunilla Svensson (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden), Øystein Godøy (Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway), Siri Jodha Khalsa (National Snow Ice and Data Center, Boulder, CO)
This NOAA led consortium integrates observing assets, data access and science expertise to provide environmental services such as improved forecasting
In 2019-2020 the MOSAiC Ice Camp will be a central Arctic Ocean observatory site
The WMO Year of Polar Prediction plans to verify and evaluate NWP and climate model processes with observations from the IASOA (YOPP) Supersites with operational and high frequency data sets generated by NWP centers – This is the YOPP super-site Model Inter-comparison Project (YOPPsiteMIP)
The International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (www.iasoa.org) is a consortium that integrates the observing assets of 12 Pan-Arctic Observatories. In 2019-2020 the MOSAiC Ice Station will constitute an Arctic Ocean Observatory with equivalent measurements of Arctic system variables
Based on NOAA Arctic observing expertise (collection, QC, calibration, processing, archiving) it is the intention to create Merged Observatory Data Files containing all observed variables in an aggregated format. The MODFs will have the same internal and external formats as the model outputs created by NWP centers during YOPP Special Observing Periods (SOPs) – This will be a challenge!
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