[ESP] Name of ESP

[Christopher Kerr]

Cathy:

The only problem is that we are planning to serve data for the
atmosphere, ocean, and, ice...

The word data is misleading as we will also allow the models that created the 
data to be downloaded.


Chris


On Wednesday 19 February 2003 05:00 pm, you wrote:
> > ESP Members:
> >
> > I was just about to send off the newly created home page for the Earth
> > Science Portal and came across the following address for:
> >
> > "The Earth Sciences Portal"
> >
> > http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESD/portal/
> >
> > I need some direction on what we should do with our name either change it
> > or leave it the way it is.
> >
> > Christopher
>
> Hi all, It's not entirely a Earth Science portal as I don't believe any
> Earth data below the ocean bottom or the land surface is to be included.
> Plus we don't plan for it to include a collection of Earth Science science
> references (that is to say, "data" is probably needed in the name). What
> about Ocean/Atmosphere Data Portal? I googled it and there is a ocean
> portal, a climate data portal, and eco-portal and some other miscellaneous
> ones but no Ocean/Atmosphere Data Portal.
>
> Cathy Smith
>
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Dr. Christopher L. Kerr
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