Analytics Center Framework for Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean

As Alvin Toffler had eloquently put it "You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." [6] We have a long history of building many innovative solutions. With a quick search on the web, we can find various tools that offer similar capabilities such as search, visualization, subsetting, analysis, etc. The community is very good with building domain-specific solutions for specific applications. The lack of cohesiveness among these tools introduces technology gaps, which lead to even more stovepipe solutions. An Analytics Center Framework is an architectural concept to establish an extensible, reusable software framework for specific research communities. This paper discusses the application of an open source data analytics framework NASA is developing through its Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program to improve estimating ocean circulation modeling product generation and analysis.