Top of Page What is NOMADS?
• NOMADS is an agreement between agencies, who participate, to have common data and observation distribution software, using a format independent and description methodology, and for a unified documentation and organizational framework for data distribution. • NOMADS provides a forum to plan and organize these structures for use by university, federal agencies and organizations as participants (servers of data) or as clients (users of data). • NOMADS is a platform for these agencies to obtain support for the dissemination of their data sets and to make use of these data sets. NOMADS participants will provide their own resources to accomplish this. A resource means the hardware and the programming staff to execute their plans. Clients should invest in the training it takes to use a web page client, like ftp2u, or client software like GrADS, IDL, MatLab, Ferret, Live Access Server, idv, etc. • Eventually, NOMADS will integrate Grid based technologies- the Open Source Python language, to
