Description
Earth Science (ES) is an all-embracing term for sciences related to planet Earth, covering a large and diverse user community, academy, European and international organisation as well as industry. The phenomena under study are dependent on geographical coordinates, altitude and time. This community has set up an active collaboration with teams on a worldwide basis and is accustomed to work in a distributed manner. In the past years the ES applications have shown an increasing need for access to intensive computing facilities and to large and heterogeneous sets of data. Besides the deployment of applications the community developed application specific grid- and web services.
The applications deployed on the EGEE infrastructure reflect the variety of scientific ES disciplines like atmospheric chemistry, climate, hydrology, meteorology pollution, solid earth physics and the different user communities like academia, European organisation, civil protection and industry. As shown, Grid provides more computing resources to the user and is also a way of sharing data, algorithm and of developing common tools. Even if EGEE is very suitable for intensive data processing and production, statistical approach, job on alert, simulation and modelling, the interface between ES environment and Grid middleware is not simple for many applications and developments. The 4th User Forum will give an excellent overview about the solutions implemented by the Earth Science community. The presentations will give a very interesting outline about the different research activities in Earth Science.
