The Potential of Grid-Enabled Learning for High Impact Weather with LEAD

Linked environments for atmospheric discovery (LEAD) is a bold and revolutionary paradigm that through a Web-based service oriented architecture (SOA) exposes the user to a rich environment of data, models, data mining and visualization/analysis tools, enabling the user to ask science questions of applications while the complexity of the software and middleware managing these applications is hidden from the user. The LEAD education initiative has focused on making available to students the same data, tools, and services used by researchers but with an authentic and contextualized environment for teaching and learning.