Application-level Services for the Climate scientific community include online services and workflows able to pre-process and visualize data in an automated manner.
The following services are available to the community:
Live Access Server (LAS)
The Live Access Server (LAS) is a highly configurable server designed to provide flexible access to geo-referenced scientific data. It can present distributed data sets as a unified virtual data base through the use of DODS networking. Ferret is the default visualization application used by LAS, though other applications (Matlab, IDL, GrADS etc) can also be used. LAS enables the web user to:
- visualize data with on-the-fly graphics
- request custom subsets of variables in a choice of file formats
- access background reference material about the data (metadata)
- compare (difference) variables from distributed locations