Global Data Assembly Center (GDAC) report to the GHRSST Science Team
In 2017-2018 the Global Data Assembly Center (GDAC) at NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) provided ingest, archive, distribution and user services for GHRSST operational data streams with improved and evolved tools, services, and tutorials and interfaced with the user community to address technical inquiries. The GDAC provided access to new GHRSST datasets as well retired a significant number of deprecated GHRSST datasets from its discovery services. The following sections summarize and document the specific achievements of the GDAC to the GHRSST community.