You can participate by Data Networking with Web Services or by conducting numerical experiments that use Resources for a Community Modeling Testbed....
Data Networking with Web Services
You can use guides and software from the OOSTethys project to serve data with OGC-compliant Web services. By doing so, you can then become part of the real-time data network, which demonstrates interoperability achieved using standards of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative. The open-source OOSTethys software tools and cookbooks compliant with OGC SWE.
You can also use OOSTethys tools to become part of the NOAA IOOS program, which recently adopted the OGC standards for Sensor Web Enablement.
OOSTethys is a community initiative that grew out of OpenIOOS initiatives. OOSTethys.org is a place where experienced software developers and data managers across the U. S. have been collaborating since 2006. The OOSTethys partnership strives to make it as easy as possible for data managers to serve data from a variety of data sources (ASCII and NetCDF files, relational databases, OPeNDAP and THREDDS). The open-source software and cookbooks are available at http://oostethys.org/downloads.
Resources for a Community Modeling Testbed
You can access community resources for a modeling testbed developed as part of the SCOOP program at SURA, which use Web services to expand upon the OOSTethys data network. The resources were developed by scientists that study numerical simulation of coastal inundation and storm damage. You use the resources by:
- Searching the catalog and accessing shared data archives
- Conducting numerical experiments with the SCOOP application manager
- Using standards-compliant tools to preview results or conduct model intercomparisons
