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Review of NASA'S Distributed Active Archive Centers

Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources

Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C 1998

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Cover: Collage of images from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). The globes show probable rainfall as indicated by the TRMM Microwave Imager. TRMM's precipitation radar gathered data on the amount and distribution of rainfall and clouds in Hurricane Bonnie during August 1998. The colors of the profile represent surface rainfall rates varying from 0 mm/hr (dark blue) to 50 mm/hr (dark red). Images courtesy of C. Morales, G. Shirah, R. Simmon, and M. Sutton, NASA GSFC.

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COMMITTEE ON GEOPHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA

FRANCIS BRETHERTON, Chair,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

VERA ALEXANDER,

University of Alaska, Fairbanks (through 1997)

DAVID GLOVER,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

MALCOLM K. HUGHES,

University of Arizona, Tucson (through 1997)

J.-BERNARD MINSTER,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

WILLIAM J. PARTON, JR.,

Colorado State University, Fort Collins

JOYCE E. PENNER,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

THOMAS A. POTEMRA,

The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Maryland (through 1997)

SOROOSH SOROOSHIAN,

University of Arizona, Tucson

ELLEN MOSLEY-THOMPSON,

The Ohio State University, Columbus (through 1997)

JOHN R. G. TOWNSHEND,

University of Maryland, College Park

CARL WUNSCH,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

National Research Council Staff

ANNE M. LINN, Study Director

ANTHONY R. DE SOUZA, Senior Program Officer

JENNIFER T. ESTEP, Administrative Assistant

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PANELS TO REVIEW NASA'S DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTERS

Alaska SAR Facility

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

KURT L. FEIGL,

Groupe de Recherche de Geodesie Spatiale, Toulouse, France

ANTHONY C. HEARN, RAND

Corporation, Santa Monica, California

MICHAEL S. LOUGHRIDGE,

NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado

JOHN M. MELACK,

University of California, Santa Barbara

ROBERT S. PRITCHARD,

IceCasting, Inc., San Rafael, California

EROS Data Center

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

RUTH S. DEFRIES,

University of Maryland, College Park

ALLEN M. HITTELMAN,

NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado

DAVID A. LANDGREBE,

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

DAR ROBERTS,

University of California, Santa Barbara

Goddard Space Flight Center

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

SYDNEY LEVITUS,

NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland

RICHARD S. LINDZEN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

TERENCE R. SMITH,

University of California, Santa Barbara

JOHN R. G. TOWNSHEND,

University of Maryland, College Park

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (PO.DAAC)

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

DAVID DEWITT,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

SYDNEY LEVITUS,

NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland

LYNNE D. TALLEY,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

Langley Research Center

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

C. BRUCE BAKER,

NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina

ROBERT D. CESS,

State University of New York, Stony Brook

RUSSELL R. DICKERSON,

University of Maryland, College Park

REX W. TRACY,

GDE Systems, Inc., San Diego, California

National Snow and Ice Data Center

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

VERA ALEXANDER,

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

KEITH E. LITTLEFIELD,

National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Fairfax, Virginia

JOHN E. WALSH,

University of Illinois, Urbana

J. RONALD WILSON,

Marine Environmental Data Service (retired), Manotick, Ontario

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J.-BERNARD MINSTER, Chair,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

FERRIS WEBSTER, Vice Chair,

University of Delaware, Lewes

KENNETH D. DAVIDSON,

NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina

BETH H. DRIVER,

National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Chantilly, Virginia

WILLIAM J. PARTON, JR.,

Colorado State University, Fort Collins

ERIC T. SUNDQUIST,

U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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National Research Council Staff

ANNE M. LINN, Study Director

JENNIFER T. ESTEP, Administrative Assistant

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BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES

J. FREEMAN GILBERT, Chair,

University of California, San Diego

KENNETH I. DAUGHERTY,

Marconi Information Systems, Reston, Virginia

RICHARD S. FISKE,

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

JAMES M. FUNK,

Shell Continental Companies, Houston, Texas

WILLIAM L. GRAF,

Arizona State University, Tempe

CHARLES G. GROAT,

University of Texas, El Paso (through November 1998)

DONALD C. HANEY,

Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington

RAYMOND JEANLOZ,

University of California, Berkeley

SUSAN M. KIDWELL,

University of Chicago, Illinois

SUSAN KIEFFER,

Kieffer & Woo, Inc., Palgrave, Ontario

PAMELA LUTTRELL,

Mobil Corporation, Dallas, Texas

J.-BERNARD MINSTER,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

ALEXANDRA NAVROTSKY,

University of California, Davis

DIANNE R. NIELSON,

Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Salt Lake City

JILL D. PASTERIS,

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

EDWARD C. ROY, JR.,

Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

EDWARD M. STOLPER,

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

MILTON H. WARD,

Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, Englewood, Colorado

National Research Council Staff

CRAIG M. SCHIFFRIES, Director

ANTHONY R. DE SOUZA, Senior Program Officer

WILLIAM E. BENSON, Senior Program Officer

ANNE M. LINN, Senior Program Officer

TAMARA L. DICKINSON, Senior Program Officer

THOMAS M. USSELMAN, Senior Program Officer

VERNA J. BOWEN, Administrative Assistant

JENNIFER T. ESTEP, Administrative Assistant

JUDITH L. ESTEP, Administrative Assistant

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COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES

GEORGE M. HORNBERGER, Chair,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

PATRICK R. ATKINS,

Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

JERRY F. FRANKLIN,

University of Washington, Seattle

B. JOHN GARRICK,

PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, California

THOMAS E. GRAEDEL,

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

DEBRA KNOPMAN,

Progressive Foundation, Washington, D.C.

KAI N. LEE,

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

JUDITH E. McDOWELL,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

RICHARD A. MESERVE,

Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.

HUGH C. MORRIS,

Canadian Global Change Program, Delta, British Columbia

RAYMOND A. PRICE,

Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario

H. RONALD PULLIAM,

University of Georgia, Athens

THOMAS C. SCHELLING,

University of Maryland, College Park

VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL,

Landers and Parsons, Tallahassee, Florida

E-AN ZEN,

University of Maryland, College Park

MARY LOU ZOBACK,

U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California

National Research Council Staff

ROBERT M. HAMILTON, Executive Director

GREGORY H. SYMMES, Assistant Executive Director

JEANETTE SPOON, Administrative and Financial Officer

SANDI FITZPATRICK, Administrative Associate

MARQUITA SMITH, Administrative Assistant/Technology Analyst

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Acknowledgment of Reviewers

This report has been reviewed by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise in accordance with procedures approved by the NRC's Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the NRC in making their published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The content of the review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report: Fakhri A. Bazzaz, Harvard University; Ingrid C. Burke, Colorado State University; William L. Chameides, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charles S. Cox, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Robert E. Dickinson, University of Arizona; Timothy H. Dixon, University of Miami; Jeff Dozier, University of California, Santa Barbara; Edward A. Frieman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Robert A. Frosch, Harvard University; Eric S. Kasischke, ERIM; Thomas F. Malone, North Carolina State University (retired); Ichtiaque Rasool, International Consultant; Robert H. Stewart, Texas A&M University; Edwin D. Waddington, University of Washington; Wilford F. Weeks, University of Alaska (emeritus); Carol Wessman, University of Colorado; and Mary Lou Zoback, U.S. Geological Survey.

Although the individuals listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of this report rests solely with the authoring committee and the NRC.

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Preface

The long-term health of data centers depends on their ability to keep pace with technological advances that improve user services and increase the long-term utility of the data, and to respond to the evolving needs of their user communities. Consequently, it is important for data centers to be reviewed externally on a periodic basis. This report, which was requested by Robert Price, then associate director of Goddard for Mission to Planet Earth (now the Earth Science Enterprise), is the first such assessment of seven Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs). The DAACs, which manage a wide variety of satellite and in situ measurements associated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), are undergoing a recertification process with the overall goal of improving their operations. NASA's recertification process will draw upon several inputs, including the results of external peer review, which are reported here. At the end of the process, NASA management will determine whether to recertify, place on probation, or close individual DAACs.

The National Research Council's (NRC's) Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data (CGED) approached the review process as it has for other data center reviews since it was assigned oversight of U.S. World Data Centers in 1967. The simultaneous review of seven DAACs is a daunting task, so the CGED divided the review into two stages. In the first stage, two CGED members visited each DAAC informally to identify key issues. Based on these visits, the committee defined review criteria, which focus on how well the DAACs serve their scientific user communities. The formal site visits, which were conducted by seven separately appointed panels, composed the second stage of the review. The formal site visits were held on the following dates:

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DAAC Host Institution

Scientific Specialty

Site Visit Date

Goddard Space Flight Center

Langley Research Center

EROS Data Center

Alaska SAR Facility

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Atmospheric processes

Atmospheric chemistry

Land processes

Sea ice, polar processes

Ocean circulation

Snow and ice, cryosphere

Biogeochemical processes

October 20–21, 1997

November 18–19, 1997

November 24–25, 1997

December 18–19, 1997

January 8–9, 1998

March 4–5, 1998

March 19–20, 1998

At NASA's request, the DAAC located at the Consortium for Integrated Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) was not reviewed.

Each site visit panel was composed of approximately six individuals. For consistency, the chair and vice chair were the same for each visit. Those individuals were chosen for their links with the CGED and their familiarity with data center reviews. The rest of the panel was composed of

  • two scientists, who use or collect the types of data held by the DAAC;

  • one representative of a non-NASA scientific data center, familiar with data center operations; and

  • one computer scientist or systems engineer, with experience in end-to-end system management and a knowledge of networks, computer architecture, and the types and capability of computer equipment available for managing large data sets.

In addition, David Glover, who chaired NASA's EOSDIS Panel at the time of the review, attended all the site visits as an observer.

For each review, the panel followed the same agenda and received similar briefing materials from the DAAC. The briefing materials included the DAAC's annual work plan, including staffing and budget projections; membership list and meeting minutes of the DAAC's User Working Group; and in most cases, written responses to the criteria for review. In addition, two members of each panel examined the DAAC's Web site, accessed data of interest to their own research, and evaluated issues such as documentation, formats, ease of use, and the ability of User Services to answer questions. As a result, the site visits were conducted at approximately the same level of detail, yielding a fair and balanced picture of the DAACs. The individual DAAC reports, however, vary significantly in emphasis, which is unavoidable given the different backgrounds and personalities of the authoring panels.

To place the panels' reports within the broader EOSDIS context, the CGED solicited input from a variety of sources, including the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project, the EOSDIS Core System (ECS) developers, and users of EOSDIS data. A two-day interview with ESDIS Project man-

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agers focused on (1) ESDIS expectations of the DAACs; (2) DAAC expectations of ESDIS, based on issues identified during the informal CGED visits to the DAACs; and (3) other issues raised by previous NRC reports, particularly the Zraket panel report (NRC, 1994). Interviews with the ECS developers (and Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] developers for the Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar [SAR] Facility DAAC) were conducted by subpanels, which included the chair and vice chair of the panels and a computer scientist. Finally, an e-mail survey of users was sent to the EOS Investigators Working Group and subsequently forwarded to a broader audience. Nearly 400 users responded. Rigorous statistical analysis of this unscientific survey is not justified, but general trends and comments from individuals helped illustrate the broad range of experiences that users have had with the DAACs. The results of these interviews, the user survey, and the panel reports formed the basis for the overall conclusions and recommendations of this report.

It is important to note that plans for EOSDIS evolved significantly during the course of the CGED review. For example, the launch data of the EOS AM-1 platform slipped by at least six months, giving the DAACs more time to prepare for the data streams. On the other hand, additional delays in the ECS are causing the DAACs and EOS science and instrument teams to resort to emergency backup plans for processing the data. These plans are evolving on almost a daily basis. This report attempts to provide a snapshot of the DAAC system as it existed in September 1998. The panel reports were updated through e-mail correspondence with the DAAC managers and by an additional site visit to the first DAAC visited (Goddard Space Flight Center). Similarly, the overview chapters were written to account for recent developments in EOSDIS. The committee believes that the resulting report can be used as a baseline for future assessments of the health of the DAAC system or for more focused reviews of individual DAACs.

The committee and its panels wish to acknowledge the many individuals who provided input to this report. They include the current and past DAAC managers (Paul Chan, Donald Collins, Roy Dunkum, Craig Lingle, Richard McGinnis, Lyndon Oleson, Larry Voorhees, Carl Wales, and Ron Weaver) and staff, whose forthright participation in the review permitted the panels to examine weaknesses as well as strengths of DAAC operations. Representatives of the DAACs' host institutions helped the panels identify distinctions between DAACs located within a university and those located within a NASA or non-NASA government facility. Discussions with members of the User Working Groups, science teams, system developers, and ESDIS management provided the panels with a more complete view of the DAACs as part of an integrated EOSDIS. The nearly 400 survey respondents from the United States and abroad gave the committee a better sense of users' overall satisfaction with the DAACs and patterns of DAAC usage.

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The committee and its panels thank the staff of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Research Council, especially Jenny Estep, for helping very effectively with the unusually complex logistics of innumerable meetings and site visits. Finally, we wish to express particular appreciation to the indefatigable study director, Anne Linn, for her invaluable guidance through the review process, and for her very hard work during the production of this report. The combination of her superb sense of organization, insight, determination, and patience contributed the necessary ingredients for the successful completion of this daunting task.

Francis Bretherton

CHAIR, CGED

Bernard Minster

CHAIR, SITE VISIT PANELS

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