The UCAR Data Pipeline Initiative for Novel Ocean Observations will host a 2.5-day Data Pipeline Workshop, February 16–18, 2027, at UCAR in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop will bring together selected observing-system partners, data providers, data managers, modelers, and data assimilation specialists to work directly on preparing datasets for CrocoLake ingestion, model-data comparison, and future data assimilation use. CrocoLake is a data platform that organizes ocean observations into analysis-ready formats for use in modeling, evaluation, and data assimilation workflows.

The Initiative is a collaboration among UCAR, NSF NCAR, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Center for Ocean Leadership (COL) to develop practical workflows that make emerging ocean observing datasets easier to prepare, evaluate, and use in model-data comparison and data assimilation applications.