Dr. Stefan Liess from Stony Brook University has been serving as the SPARC Data Center Scientist at http://www.sparc.sunysb.edu since December 2004. Stefan Liess will continue the work of his predecessors Petra Udelhofen and Xuelong Zhou in working with the SPARC projects to acquire newly available data as needed, as well as to maintain archives of data that have been used in past SPARC projects so that they may be acquired as needed by the world community, and also be available for updating
should the SPARC projects desire to do so. Subject to funding, plans for the near future include a modernization of hardware facilities in order to accommodate the growing demand for data storage. This demand arises from several sources, e.g. from an ongoing collection of high-resolution radiosonde data from 93 U.S. stations, a planned chemistry-climate model intercomparison project (CCMVal), and to provide storage space for SPARC-IPY data. The implementation of online plotting in order to ease data access and decrease data transfer is also being planned. Please contact
Stefan Liess at stefan.liess@stonybrook.edu for any questions regarding the SPARC Data Center. The SPARC Data Center has been funded by NASA grants to Stony Brook University with Marvin Geller as Principal Investigator. A new proposal is being prepared for submission to NASA for continued support.

SPARC Data Center Website: http://www.sparc.sunysb.edu