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.
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Mr Evangelos Floros (GRNET)04/03/2009, 14:00Planned or on-going scientific work using the gridOralA common problem in weather forecasting derives from the uncertainty related to the atmosphereโs chaotic behaviour. A well-known approach to deal with this is to base the final forecast not only on the predictions of one model (deterministic forecast) but on an ensemble of forecasts that is produced by running an individual model using a range of perturbed initial conditions (multi-analysis...Go to contribution page
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Mr Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Academia Sinica Grid Computing)04/03/2009, 14:20Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralIn studies of climate change, utilizing the flux observation tower is one of the important research methods. In the FLUXNET, there are over 500 tower sites operating on a long-term and continuous basis in the world. Scientists face a challenge of dealing with a huge amount of data. The EGEE infrastructure is helpful for this research to provide abetter environment for huge sensor data...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Antรณnio Pina (Universidade do Minho)04/03/2009, 14:40Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralCROSS-Fire is a research project, funded by the Portuguese NGI and led by UMinho, focused on topics related to decision making to control forest fires and on the porting to the grid of FireStation - a fire growth simulation application. G-FireStation exploits Grid capabilities in order to have a faster execution, to manage large data input/output files, to create a large data base of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Miklos Kozlovszky (MTA SZTAKI)04/03/2009, 15:00Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralMantle convection is the driving force of plate tectonics. The Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection (NMMC3D) application is focusing on the structure and dynamics of the mantle plumes. In collaboration with the MTA SZTAKI Application Porting Centre the application has been ported to the SEE-GRID-SCI infrastructure. The presentation introduces the steps that were taken to enable NMMC3D on...Go to contribution page