Frontiers in Climate (Feb 2022)

Pangeo Forge: Crowdsourcing Analysis-Ready, Cloud Optimized Data Production

  • Charles Stern,
  • Ryan Abernathey,
  • Joseph Hamman,
  • Joseph Hamman,
  • Rachel Wegener,
  • Chiara Lepore,
  • Sean Harkins,
  • Alexander Merose

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.782909
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

Abstract

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Pangeo Forge is a new community-driven platform that accelerates science by providing high-level recipe frameworks alongside cloud compute infrastructure for extracting data from provider archives, transforming it into analysis-ready, cloud-optimized (ARCO) data stores, and providing a human- and machine-readable catalog for browsing and loading. In abstracting the scientific domain logic of data recipes from cloud infrastructure concerns, Pangeo Forge aims to open a door for a broader community of scientists to participate in ARCO data production. A wholly open-source platform composed of multiple modular components, Pangeo Forge presents a foundation for the practice of reproducible, cloud-native, big-data ocean, weather, and climate science without relying on proprietary or cloud-vendor-specific tooling.

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