NOAA Theme Pages and the NOAAServer

The purpose of the NOAAServer is to provide access to distributed NOAA data and information. Participants include all of the NOAA Line Offices. A limited but growing portion of NOAA's data and information is presently available through this system.

• Theme Pages bring together data and information ssociated with a broad, thematic concept, i.e., El Nino, a NOAA Strategic Goal

• Theme Pages start with a general topic, allow the user to do some initial investigation by reading about the broad topic, and ultimately points him into direction of a specific topic and dataset that may be accessible through the NOAAServer search paradigm.

• Theme pages link to the NOAAServer for NOAA-wide data searches, e.g., see the data section of the El Nino Theme Page

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• The NOAAServer emphasizes a search for specific data and information based upon a parameter search over time and space.

• The NOAAServer can be used to locate Theme pages, which are integrated into NOAAServer search path, and provided focused information on a topic. For example, use the NOAAServer to search for keyword "ENSO" to locate the El Nino Theme Page