Longhorn R

Millard K

Ross G

van der Wel F

Woolf A

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European developments in GIS standards for met/ocean data

Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 08919, 2005SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU05-A-08919© European Geosciences Union 2005European developments in GIS standards formet/ocean dataA. Woolf (1), K. Millard (2), G. Ross (3) and F. van der Wel (4)(1) CCLRC e-Science Centre, (2) HR Wallingford Ltd, (3) Met Office, (4) Royal NetherlandsMeteorological InstituteWe review a number of developments in GIS standards for interoperability ofmet/ocean data. The timeliness and synergy of these projects indicates a renewed in-terest in establishing a broad interoperability agenda for the earth system, spurred onby emerging standards for geographic information and services.A WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) expert team with contributors from 5European countries has been developing a meteorological community profile of themetadata standard ISO 19115. The team is also working on a feature catalogue underISO 19110 which describes as feature types and coverages, the content of WMO bul-letins and forecasts which are distributed in real time around the world. This work ispart of WMO’s FWIS development (Framework for a WMO Information System).MarineXML is an EU-funded project that has investigated the potential for marinedata interoperability using XML and GML technologies. The project will inform Eu-ropean marine data harmonisation under INSPIRE through the forthcoming MOTIIVEproject. It has also collaborated with IOC and IHO on establishing standards-basedregistries (‘feature-type catalogues’) for marine data models.Conceptual models and a GML application schema (the Climate Science ModellingLanguage, CSML) for a range of met/ocean data types have been developed by theUK project, NERC DataGrid (and reviewed by MarineXML). They are being trialledin a prototype deployment across the heterogeneous curated archives of the BritishAtmospheric Data Centre and British Oceanographic Data Centre. The data modelprovides an abstraction layer to facilitate delivery through services such as the OpenGeospatial Consortium GIS web services.Finally, COST-719 is an action in the ESF (European Science Foundation) frame-work aimed at enhancing and broadening the potential of GIS in the fields of clima-tology and meteorology. One of its Working Groups is concerned with storage andexchange standards for such data. Focus is especially on monitoring developmentswithin WMO-CBS and the OGC consortium, but also on ambitions within the EU.As an example of the latter, the consequences of the INSPIRE directive are carefullyinvestigated for the meteorological realm.

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