The Ocean Appliance: Complete Platform Provisioning for Low-Cost Data Sharing

Abstract-We report ,on our ,progress towards ,an Ocean Appliance – envisioned as a complete, pre-built "server-in-a- box" equipped with an ocean observation database, a forecast engine, a web server publishing an extensible web interface, a suite of web services establishing interoperability, and a library ofdata ingest and processing functions. Collectively, these services allow efficient ingest, organization, analysis, and distribution of observations and model results with minimal on- site configuration. By packaging ,the hardware ,as well ,as the software, the effort required to install and adapt the tools to the environment of the local data provider is minimized, streamlining the adoption of interoperability standards and simplifying environmental data management. We report results from,a pilot ,project using the appliance to support ,cruise operations and describe preparations for an upcoming multi-ship experiment involving real-time telemetry and coordinated, simultaneous analysis of forecasts and observations. I.,INTRODUCTION The vision of the ,Integrated Ocean Observing System