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  skos:prefLabel "NOMADS"@en ;
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  skos:definition """To address a growing need for remote access to high volume
      numerical weather prediction and global climate models and
      data, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), along with the
      National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the
      Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), initiated the
      NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS)
      project. The NOMADS framework was developed to facilitate
      climate model and observational data inter-comparison issues as
      discussed in documents such as the Intergovernmental Panel on
      Climate Change (IPCC 1990, 1995, 2001) and the U.S. National
      Assessment (2000). NOMADS is being developed as a Unified
      Climate and Weather Archive to provide Web access to model
      information so that users can make decisions about their
      specific needs. This on time scales from days (weather), to
      months (El Nino), to decades (global warming). NOMADS also
      addresses model data access needs as outlined in the
      U.S. Weather Research Program (U!  SWRP) Implementation Plan
      for Research in Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting and Data
      Assimilation to "redeem practical value of research findings
      and facilitate their transfer into operations." For more
      information see: The NOMADS Program Overview.
      
      NOMADS is a network of data servers using established and
      emerging technologies to access and integrate model and other
      data stored in geographically distributed repositories in
      heterogeneous formats. NOMADS enables the sharing and
      inter-comparing of model results and is a major collaborative
      effort, spanning multiple Government agencies and academic
      institutions. The data available under the NOMADS framework
      include model input and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
      gridded output models from NCEP; and Global Climate Models
      (GCM) and simulations from GFDL and other leading institutions
      from around the world. The goals of NOMADS are to:
      
      1.Improve access to NWP and GCM's datasets.
      
      2.Improve the linkages between the research and operational
      modeling communities.
      
      3.Foster collaborations between the climate and weather
      communities.  Provide the observational data and model analysis
      initialization products for regional models.
      
      4.Improve the verification process of forecast and climate
      models.  Promote product development and collaborations within
      the geo-science communities (ocean, weather, and climate).
      
      5.Provides cost effective pull technologies for "hyper-slabs"
      of high volume data sets.
      
      For more information on the NOMADS Project,
      link to http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/
      
      To view NOMADS presentation,
      link to http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov/nomads/slides/slide_1.html
      
      [Summary provided by NOAA]"""@en ;
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