气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): User needs for weather and climate information: 2019 NCEI users' conference

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DOI	10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0323.1
	User needs for weather and climate information: 2019 NCEI users' conference
	Brewer M.J.; Hollingshead A.; Dissen J.; Jones N.; Webster L.F.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	00030007
起始页码	E645
结束页码	E649
卷号	101 期号:5
英文摘要	NCEI has taken great steps over the last several years to improve engagement efforts with industry sectors, requirements gathering and documentation, and adjudication processes. Successes are being realized, and lessons learned are providing guidance to iterate on strategy. These efforts have already led to a greater understanding of user needs and broader and more robust interaction with users and partners. The 2019 NCEI Users' Conference furthered these efforts and garnered a wealth of feedback, requirements, and a deepened understanding of environmental information applications. The conference dialog primarily revolved around access improvements, new product development, improvements (see Fig. 1) to existing products, and resolution improvements. Data access discussion pointed to difficulty navigating datasets and around firewalls and the need for user-defined customization options and data analysis capabilities. New product development needs focused on extremes, climatologies, and blended data. Discussion on improving existing products emphasized authoritative data (i.e., uncertainty, precision, quality, and global coverage) and decreased latency. Improvements in resolution spanned nearly all products. Summarizing further, the overarching requirement defined the need for a straightforward, web-accessible data platform that provides all available data, globally and updated frequently, at the highest possible resolution in a standardized format. The platform should provide user-defined customization options, data layers, and analytic capabilities. Essentially, allow users to analyze NCEI's data on the fly, apply multiple data types, and select only the ranges needed, bringing the analysis to the data instead of requiring users to find, download, reformat, subset, and merge data types to perform client-side analytics. (Figure presented) Open and free access to robust, resilient, and comprehensive weather and climate data are an absolutely fundamental building block to private and public sectors and vital to economic health. The requirements heard at the 2019 NCEI Users' Conference will be addressed either directly or indirectly through the NCEI annual product planning and prioritization process. As the next phase of the planning process unfolds, likely to be completed by the time of this publication, NCEI will determine what efforts can be supported through FY20 and those that will be adjudicated in FY21 and beyond. NCEI will continue to support gathering user feedback through mechanisms such as the 2019 Users' Conference and incorporate documented requirements in future product innovation cycles. © 2020 American Meteorological Society. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Meteorology; Analysis capabilities; Environmental information; Fundamental building blocks; Multiple data types; New product development; Prioritization process; Requirements gathering; Resolution improvement; Product development
来源期刊	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/177893
作者单位	NOAA, National Center for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States; Riverside Technology Inc., Asheville, NC, United States; Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC, United States; NOAA, Hollings Marine Laboratory, Charleston, SC, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brewer M.J.,Hollingshead A.,Dissen J.,et al. User needs for weather and climate information: 2019 NCEI users' conference[J],2020,101(5).
APA	Brewer M.J.,Hollingshead A.,Dissen J.,Jones N.,&Webster L.F..(2020).User needs for weather and climate information: 2019 NCEI users' conference.Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,101(5).
MLA	Brewer M.J.,et al."User needs for weather and climate information: 2019 NCEI users' conference".Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101.5(2020).