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The atmospheric and geospatial communities are still separate worlds with their own tools and data formats. It is extremely difficult to easily share data among scientists representing these communities without performing some cumbersome conversions. ADAGUC aims to reduce the need for scientists to invent their own converter tools. Selected space borne atmospheric datasets will be made accessible to a GIS system in order to be submitted to data comparison, resampling, selection, manipulation and visualization. The user community will be intensively involved in the project to obtain a high fitness for use. The first ADAGUC workshop (Oct 2006) was attended by a large group of users from both the atmospheric and GIS community and resulted in a better understanding of user needs that are currently translated into specifications for the user requirements document of ADAGUC. The deliverables of this project are: Open Source conversion tools, selected atmospheric datasets in a GIS-friendly format and a web service to demonstrate the usability of the above to the geospatial and atmospheric community.

The OGC GALEON (Geo-interface for Air, Land, Environment, Ocean NetCDF) Phase 2 Interoperability Experiment has the primary objective to test the applicability and effectiveness of the revisions incorporated into WCS 1.1 for serving netCDF datasets. To accomplish this objective, we expect a major contribution from testing crosswalks between standards adopted by the netCDF and Geo-Information communities. The netCDF community is characterized by the following data and metadata content and encoding models and related services: CF-netCDF extended data model; THREDDS catalog protocol and data model; OPeNDAP access protocol and data model; ncML encoding model. The Geospatial Information community adopts the content and encoding models and the related access and catalog services defined by ISO TC211 (i.e. 19100 standard series) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC); among them: ISO 19123:coverage, 19115:metadata, OGC WCS protocol and data model; OGC CSW.ebRIM protocol and data model; 19128: Web map server interface, 19136: Geography Markup Language (GML) encoding model, 19139: Metadata - XML schema implementation. Indeed, there is a clear need to establish a solid interoperability framework between these two important communities. In fact, the netCDF community itself is really multidisciplinary - spanning several realms, including atmospheric sciences, oceanography, hydrology, etc. The Geospatial Information community is becoming more and more important in the present Internet era. In fact, access to real-time distributed geospatial