OpenClimateGIS User Stories

The climate impacts component of the Birdhouse Web Processing Service (http://birdhouse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) uses OpenClimateGIS as a subsetting, masking, and computational backend. Birdhouse connects directly to the Earth System Grid Federation’s climate archive and leverages OpenClimateGIS’s ability to comprehensively interpret and manipulate the climate data stored therein.

 

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Ducks Unlimited is using OpenClimateGIS to temporally summarize species distribution counts within management units across the United States.

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The Climate4Impact (https://climate4impact.eu/impactportal/general/index.jsp) data portal is using OpenClimateGIS as part of its data subsetting service. Climate4Impact uses the Earth System Grid Federation’s climate archive.

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OpenClimateGIS is listed as part of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (https://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/openclimategis-software).

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The University of North Carolina’s Renaissance Computing Institute (http://renci.org/) is using OpenClimateGIS to subset high resolution National Water Model grids for data post-processing and analysis.

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Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (http://www.crim.ca/en) is developing a tool to compute climate analogs using OpenClimateGIS. Climate analogs match an area’s future climatic conditions with contemporary climates.

OpenClimateGIS occupies a central part of our software stack. The computations it provides, for instance subsetting, aggregation or regridding, are the foundation of several workflows we manage at CRIM and Ouranos for our platform, PAVICS. Redevelopping that type of toolbox up to that level of stability and reliability would be a long exercice that would constitute a setback to our initiatives. Moreover, support for OCGIS has been stellar: quick, effective, proactive and well tuned to the community. Up until 2020, CRIM will require more and more capacities for our upcoming projects, including SAR and Optical datacubes. We therefore strongly recommend that NOAA pursues the development and continuous improvement of OCGIS. 

Tom Landry

Project manager, PAVICS

OGC Representative for CRIM

 

PAVICS: Following from a presentation at ESGF Face-to-Face 2016, PAVICS is a "A Platform for the Analysis and Visualization of Climate Science". The system is built on top of and within the Birdhouse WPS developed primarily through DKRZ. (http://esgf.github.io/media/2016-F2F/7-12-2016/compute_and_analytics/F2F-2016-PAVICS.pdf) OCGIS is mentioned in the software stack in the presentation.

 

CRIM: Computer Research Institute of Montreal (Applied research center and IT, Positioned between academia and businesses)

 

Ouranos: Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change, Provides climate scenarios and services, Runs a regional climate model, Consulting services on adaptation to climate change 

 

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ugrid-tools

UCAR scientists are using some ESMF and custom GDAL-based tools for regridding. They are interested in potential performance boosts from using ESMF unstructured meshes for regridding. “ugrid-tools” support the conversion of proprietary GIS formats into ESMF unstructured format for use in ESMF regridding. The grids are very high resolution (250-meter CONUS, ~283 million grid cells).