DATASET LISTINGS - PRIMARY ACCESS

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Dataset listings are in a standard format and include data produced by CZO as well as related data produced by non-CZO organizations (ie USGS, NOAA).  Links to data files are provided.  Data files are *not* hosted here on CriticalZone.org. Instead, they are hosted by national data repositories, individual CZO data catalogs, federal data centers, and other sources.  File types range widely, including CSV, Excel, and JPG.  Files are grouped into collections called "datasets", which are organized by discipline, topic, creators, field areas and/or variables.   

DATA CATALOG WEBSITES

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These websites provide an alternative access point for an individual CZO, with differing ways of organizing data.  Much of these data are also available via the standardized CZO Dataset Listings (primary access point).

NON-CZO REPOSITORIES

IEDA EarthChem | CUAHSI Hydroshare | KNB | LTER-NIS | OpenTopography

Some CZO data is archived (or soon will be archived) by independent data center organizations such as those listed above.

EarthCube CINERGI

Cinergi = Community Inventory of EarthCube Resources for Geosciences Interoperability. More than 700 CZO data resources are automatically ingested into the CINERGI inventory from the CZO Data Search Portal (see below pilot projects). CINERGI contains more than 450,00 interdisciplinary data resources across the geosciences.

CZO PILOT PROJECTS

May not be fully functional or complete.

CZO Data Search Portal

THE CZO Data Portal enables rapid exploration and filtering of the many datasets used by the US NSF Critical Observatories program. These data span a wide range of disciplines in earth, environmental, and biological sciences.

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The Portal is based solely on extensive metadata, which includes pointers to data files. The files themselves are stored elsewhere, mostly on servers at the 10 individual CZO observatories.

Search.CriticalZone.org provides:

• Power search and filtering/faceting capabilities to all CZO Dataset Listings and Components
• Federation of CZO Dataset Listings with other national data catalogs and data respositories (ie EarthCube CINERGI)
• CZO Data Central Webservices & Application Programming Interface (API)

The Search.CriticalZone.org website is a user interface to the CZO Central Data Catalog built upon a Geoportal Server.

Dataset component files of a certain specification, called CZO Display File v1, are automatically harvested into the CUAHSI Hydrological Information System (HIS) Central Catalog. These data can thus be accessed and analyzed using any software client to CUAHSI HIS, such as HydroDesktop or the CZO Data Visualization Portal.

CZO Data Visualization Portal

The Viz.CriticalZone.org website is a web application that enables map-based discovery, access and visualization of point-observation data. The focus is on time-series data, but other data are shown when readibly available via centralized web services.

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Data used Viz.CriticalZone.org include

• CUAHSI HIS time-series data gathered via web services
• SESAR-registered IGSN sample sites
• gridded climatology
• gridded vegetation activity
• other data (varies by CZO)

The CZO Data Visualization Portal is an adaptation of the "Vizer" framework originally developed by the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS) for its NANOOS Visualization System (NVS).The CZO adaptation of Vizer first focused on developing it to be a web-based client of time series data cataloged by CUAHSI HIS, in much the same way that HydroDesktop is a Windows desktop client of the same CUAHSI HIS data catalog.