“Our paper introduces the technical design and implementation of Pangeo Forge,” said Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Data Infrastructure Engineer Charles Stern. “We also outline our future outlook for the platform, which offers data users including scientists, analysts, and students, the opportunity to curate a collection of ARCO data stores that are useful for their own work, and share both the provenance of those datasets, as well as the datasets themselves, with the community.”

Pangeo Forge, a new open-source platform, accelerates science by providing easy-to-use templates which open a door for a broader community of scientists to participate in ARCO data production. By crowdsourcing ARCO dataset creation, 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.