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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear LTER Community,</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are requesting your input to develop
the next generation LTER climate and hydrology data products, specifically with respect to the upgrade of ClimDB/HydroDB (see attached document for brief overview</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
As there are many options of approaching this, we need to learn what would be most useful to the LTER research community. Please consider the following questions:</span></span><br>
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<li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Would you be interested in participating in an EDI organized workshop (Spring 2019) envisioning the next generation LTER climate and hydrology data products?</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Do you use climate data from other networks besides the LTER data repository and ClimDB/HydroDB (e.g., NADP, NCEI, USGS, NWS coop stations, CUAHSI, PRISM)?</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Are you using data and/or graphs from ClimDB/HydroDB in your research, synthesis efforts, and/or teaching?</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sites are currently providing daily climate data, typically for multiple stations, which are available through the ClimDB interface. What processed data are of interest to your group?
Would you be interested in finer temporal resolution data, </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">and what is the finest resolution of interest?</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">The current user interface is based on antiquated architecture and must be replaced. Do you have an opinion on the features the new interface should offer? If yes, please elaborate.</span></li></ol>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please send your response to Susanne Grossman-Clarke (</span><a href="mailto:grossmanclar@wisc.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk228641" class="x_OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration:none" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">grossmanclar@wisc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">,
EDI Outreach and Training Coordinator) by October 15, 2018. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you for considering this request. We are looking forward to your comments.
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Wade Sheldon, Colin Smith, Kristin Vanderbilt and Yang Xia</span></p>
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