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Firewall operations and Scheduled maintenance

By laraf |

A Failover operation has been scheduled on Thursday February 22 at 12:30 Norwegian time.

It will have a short, but widespread impact on network traffic in Oslo. Expected Maintenance Duration: 30 Minutes
 

In addition, this site will undergo scheduled maintenance on Monday, February 26.

Short interruptions in operation may occur during the whole day.

GCW/SLF software package

WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) is depending on a number of observing stations (CryoNet stations) for feeding the GCW value chain with observations. GCW has a requirement for both real time and archived data. In the period 2015-2017, GCW has been working with WSL/SLF to set up interoperability between the WSL/SLF data centre being responsible for one of the CryoNet stations. WSL/SLF has kindly agreed to make the software stack they have developed available for a wider community.

Under development

By steingod |

The old GCW Data Portal is available at http://gcw.met.no. This portal is still under development and active content management has yet not started. The Global Cryosphere Watch catalogue is yet not considered an operational service. It is populated with metadata harvested from a number of contributing data centres, but data remains in the original location and are served through the interfaces supported by the originating data centre.

How to encode data

According to the GCW Interoperability Guidelines, CF-NetCDF is the preferred format for submission of data. The Climate and Forecast convention (CF) is actively used. The main reason for this is to standardise the use metadata, enabling users to understand the content of a data file by the data file only as data are self described and enabling users to use standardised applications for analysis as Input/Output from applications are supported by the self described formats.

How to connect your data centre

The GCW Data Portal is a metadata driven data portal. This implies that data are hosted and served by contributing data centres which expose discovery metadata on the datasets. Once initiated, the GCW Data Portal regularly (once daily) harvests discovery metadata from the contributing data centres and ingests this in the GCW Data Catalogue which is integrated in this site.