ORNL DAAC

The mission of ORNL DAAC is to assemble, distribute, and provide data services for a comprehensive archive of terrestrial biogeochemistry and ecological dynamics observations and models to facilitate research, education, and decision-making in support of NASA's Earth Science.

Our goals are to:

• Serve as the primary data repository for data derived from NASA's Terrestrial Ecology program and Carbon Cycle Science and Ecosystems focus area.
• Provide ground- and aircraft-based data to assess the accuracy and uncertainty of NASA's Earth Science missions.
• Work with NASA to develop best practices, tools, and training for scientists who generate and use NASA Earth-observing data.
• Facilitate synthesis and analysis by providing and integrating the diverse data required to address critical questions.

ORNL DAAC regularly partners with other Earth Observation System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data centers and the following organizations towards shared goals.

ICSU WDS

The International Council for Science World Data System (ICSU WDS) promotes stewardship and access to data and data services across a range of science disciplines.

ABoVE Working Groups

The Artic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Working Groups define standards of data management, services, models, variables, and products for ABoVE. ORNL DAAC staff participate in the Core Variables & Standards and the Geospatial Products & Standards groups.

ESDSWG

The Earth Science Data System Working Groups (ESDSWG) is a NASA organization that focuses on the exploration and development of recommendations derived from pertinent community insights of NASA's heterogeneous and distributed Earth science data systems.

ESIP

The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a networked community that brings together science, data, and information technology practitioners.

USGS CSS

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Core Science Systems (CSS) delivers natural science information to the United States in support of smart decisionmaking.

CCSI Data Centers

ORNL DAAC is a member of the ORNL Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) and often contributes to its other data centers.

A preprint dataset is one which is made available prior to the completion of the ORNL DAAC's quality assurance and documentation work. This is most often done to support the peer review process for journal articles involving the data. As with a journal preprint, a preprint dataset includes the materials as received from the data provider, is subject to revision, and should be used as one would a journal preprint. Preprint datasets at the ORNL DAAC are not visible in NASA's Earthdata Search, and the ORNL DAAC attempts to prevent them from showing up in Internet search tools. Any differences in the finalized data relative to the data from the preprint version will be described in the finalized dataset documentation.

NASA facility instruments operate out of a NASA research center and support multiple science disciplines, field investigations, and NASA science objectives. Facility instruments are supported by managers in the Earth Science Division (ESD) Research and Analysis Program, and/or the Earth Observation System (EOS) Project Science Office.