The national climate data center hosts an ice core archive (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/ice-core), with an interactive map AND google earth map that allows you see information on the core and then link back to the data either via text file or download from FTP. While I think this is already an incredibly useful service, I imagine an archive that is more user friendly, perhaps something that looks like:
(source http://htcexperiments.org/2008/09/) with cylinders instead of buildings. Cylinder height could correspond to core depth or dating, and when you click on the cylinder (or cylinder layer) you retrieve associated information, a visual representation of the selected core, available attributes, and links to raw data and publications that came from the core. Cylinders could be grouped by region, or even arranged in the shape of the region so you can quickly select the core archive in the region you are most interested in.
There has been some work has been done on ice core visualization (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/), but from what I have tried to discover this seems limited to variable plots that allow you to scroll through time. While these are useful, I think there could be more exciting way to visualize individual core data. This could be as simple as a cylinder with a color ramp that corresponds to a certain variable (I'll try to make a series of sample visualizations before the hackathon). I also think cutaways (like- http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20110) would be interesting to visualize location and core depth.
The national climate data center hosts an ice core archive (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/ice-core), with an interactive map AND google earth map that allows you see information on the core and then link back to the data either via text file or download from FTP. While I think this is already an incredibly useful service, I imagine an archive that is more user friendly, perhaps something that looks like:
(source http://htcexperiments.org/2008/09/) with cylinders instead of buildings. Cylinder height could correspond to core depth or dating, and when you click on the cylinder (or cylinder layer) you retrieve associated information, a visual representation of the selected core, available attributes, and links to raw data and publications that came from the core. Cylinders could be grouped by region, or even arranged in the shape of the region so you can quickly select the core archive in the region you are most interested in.
There has been some work has been done on ice core visualization (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_IceCores/), but from what I have tried to discover this seems limited to variable plots that allow you to scroll through time. While these are useful, I think there could be more exciting way to visualize individual core data. This could be as simple as a cylinder with a color ramp that corresponds to a certain variable (I'll try to make a series of sample visualizations before the hackathon). I also think cutaways (like- http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20110) would be interesting to visualize location and core depth.