[Go-essp-tech] Feedback from an ESA meeting

[Eric Nienhouse]

Hi Martin, All,

Indeed an encouragement during busy times and very nice news to hear.  
Thank you for passing this on.

Efforts to promote system interoperability, unify secure scripted data 
access and provide quality user support (among many others) are paying off.

Best,

-Eric


stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Martin,
>
> That's really heart-warming to hear, particularly in a week when we've been scrambling to improve so many loose ends with the system.  I will try to remember that if it isn't hurting from the inside it isn't impressing from the outside.
>
> Have a good weekend,
> Stephen.
>
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> Centre of Environmental Data Archival
> STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of martin.juckes at stfc.ac.uk
> Sent: 14 October 2011 16:33
> To: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
> Subject: [Go-essp-tech] Feedback from an ESA meeting
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just come back from a meeting organised by the ESA Climate Change Initiative, a programme of 14 collaborative projects creating a with range of climate data records -- targeted at the AR6 time frame. We are trying to encourage them in the NetCDF CF file format and ESGF federated archive direction.
>
> Comments on the ESGF CMIP5 archive were "the Rolls-Royce of archive systems", its "fantastic" that we have got globally distributed data accessible through a single catalog, and a Hadley Centre scientist described access to data as "brilliant". The scientist in question was using scripts written by Jamie which hide a lot of the inconsistencies in the archive, but it shows that the effort put into enabling scripted access is working.
>
> Keep up the good work -- we are impressing people on the outside,
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>