Title: Developing a Distributed Oceanographic Match-up Service
Presenting Author: Shawn R. Smith
Organization: NASA GSFC/Bayesics
Co-Author(s): Thomas Huang, Steve Worley, Vardis Tsontos, Benjamin Holt, and Mark A. Bourassa

Abstract:
The Distributed Oceanographic Match-up Service (DOMS), presently in the prototype phase and scheduled to go online in late 2016, will be described and demonstrated. DOMS is designed to reconcile satellite and in situ datasets in support of NASA's Earth Science mission. The service will provide a mechanism for users to input a series of geospatial references for satellite observations and receive the in situ observations that are matched to the satellite data within a selectable temporal and spatial domain. DOMS includes several characteristic in situ and satellite observation datasets - with an initial focus on salinity, sea temperature, and winds. DOMS will be used by the marine and satellite research communities to support a range of activities and several use cases will be described. The service is designed to provide a community-accessible tool that dynamically delivers matched data and allows the scientist to only work with the subset of data where the matches exist. DOMS is a collaborative effort between the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at the Florida State University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.