The NERC Datagrid: enabling interoperable climate data resources

Author

Lawrence, Bryan ; Gutierrez, Marta ; Latham, Sue ; Stephens, Ag ; Cramer, Ray ; Kondapalli, Siva ; Lowry, Roy ; Williams, Dean ; Bennett, Neil ; Van Dam, Kerstin Kleese ; O´Neill, Kevin ; Woolf, Andrew ; Burek, Michael ; Middleton, Don

Author_Institution

British Atmos. Data Centre, Oxford, UK

fYear

2005

fDate

20-24 June 2005

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

181

Abstract

The NERC DataGrid (NDG) is a UK e-science project that provides discovery of, and virtualised access to, a wide variety of climate and earth system science data. We present an overview of key elements of the NDG architecture from a number of perspectives, from an enterprise viewpoint, to the relationship to key ISO standards, and to the underlying metadata structures. The discussion stresses the interoperability characteristics of the design, and introduces the latest experiments of interoperability with the NCAR community data portal, and plans for wider interoperability with the climate data archives held in the Earth system grid. Future initiatives, including the Big Data Analysis Network, are introduced.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysics computing; grid computing; open systems; scientific information systems; Earth system grid; ISO standard; NERC Datagrid; UK e-science project; big data analysis network; climate data archive; community data portal; design interoperability; earth system science data; interoperable climate data resource; metadata structure; Australia; Books; Data analysis; Earth; Geoscience; ISO standards; Laboratories; Portals; Stress; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local to Global Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies, 2005

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9228-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LGDI.2005.1612489

Filename

1612489