Speaker
Nicolas Ray
(UNEP and University of Geneva)
Description
The Black Sea Catchment is recognized for its ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management. The 4-year FP7-funded EnviroGRIDS project (start: April 2009, 27 partners) will address these issues by developing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) targeting this region and linked to the EGEE infrastructure. A large catalogue of environmental data sets (e.g. landuse, hydrology, climate) will be gathered and used to perform distributed spatially-explicit simulations to build scenarios of key environmental changes. A high resolution (sub-catchment spatial and daily temporal resolution) water balance model will be applied to the entire Black Sea catchment (2 mio. km2) using a gridified version of the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). SWAT modules for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis on SWAT will also be gridified using GANGA for front-end job management.
We will explain why the grid plays a key role in this project, and what are the planned steps to link a large SDI to the grid. Foreseen challenges will be discussed, along with what positive role the grid can play in relation to environmental data standardization and dissemination.
Author
Nicolas Ray
(UNEP and University of Geneva)