What is the relationship between NOMADS and the “grid” especially with DOEs Earth System Grid?
The long-term viability of NOMADS will be directed toward the collaborative nature of the current NOMADS partners, and future expected projects particularly the Earth System Grid, Ceos-Grid, and the British Atmospheric Data Center (BADC). BADC will provide access to the European community suite of data including ECMWF, Hadley and eventually UKMET. Australia and Japan are already participating under USGODAE, and CEOP (not yet a firm CEOP commitment). The vision currently taking shape is that NOMADS will be the umbrella under which ESG, CEOS-Grid, NERC DataGrid (UK), and other efforts will operate. Under an open source Python-based operating environment, NOMADS users will be able to use whatever tool they so desire and the NOMADS-ESG will allow users to intercompare data of differing formats and from differing locations using either thin-client (Web browser), or up to thick-clients (host services using CDAT, and/or Internet2). Once we have this framework, day-to-day maintenance will be s
