AdriaScience gateway: Application specific gateway for advanced meteorological predictions on croatian distributed computing infrastructures

Marine traffic and rapidly growing tourism in the Adriatic Sea region are the main reasons for investigating different weather phenomena and developing the prediction models that depend on distributed computing infrastructures. Weather phenomena like storms and waterspouts are common in the in the Mediterranean Basin and thus in the Adriatic Sea region. Their occurrence is becoming easier to follow in past few years thanks to the advanced numerical weather prediction models and modern communication and computing technologies. This paper presents AdriaScience gateway, the application specific gateway for meteorological applications based on WS-PGRADE/gUSE technology developed within the SCI-BUS project. The main goal of the application specific gateway is to facilitate a universal access to the different Croatian distributed computing infrastructures for Croatian meteorology community.