Description
The Earth Science (ES) community with its mosaic of disciplines and contributors (academia, industry and, national and international organization) provides a scientific basis for addressing social, research and industrial issues as it is shown in the abstract on ES applications of the ES virtual research community. Some crucial points are the existing large data repositories in data centers outside the Grid infrastructures and the fact that the earth science data are always referred at least to 3 coordinates, geographical location (latitude & longitude) and time, and in many cases to 4 coordinates as activities related with spatial data, such as applications from public sector e.g. cadastre, topography, census, traffic, all public information, civil protection related on flood, fire or earthquake, industry, research and so forth. Due to the large volume of data and their heterogeneity (resolution in the 4D, different formats) the ES community has developed tools in particular to access them, to exploit and integrate them.
This session reflects many aspects of this community. Its worldwide aspect is exhibited by abstracts from teams of 11 European countries and one from Taiwan, partner of the ES cluster. Several environmental and societal issues are addressed and they concern more specifically hydrology (Black Sea Catchment– EU project, EnviroGrids), meteorology, pollution, seismology, fire evolution (Portuguese funded project, Cross-Fire), fisheries and aquaculture with monitoring and risk management approaches. Porting applications is not enough to satisfy the requirements of end-users. Due to the complexity of the application, workflows have been developed and one example is given for the fisheries and aquaculture communities. Two abstracts concern the use, with Grid, of GIS components based on Web services and provided by OGC (Open Geospatial consortium). Their integration within a platform or gateway will be very useful for decision makers as well as all public. To address the issue of exploring large data sets, different data mining tools are commonly used in ES and have been applied in the framework of the European project, ADMIRE. Training platforms are a key point to introduce new end-users to the grid infrastructure and to demonstrate the powerfulness of an Grid environment, one example is shown with satellite earth observation data. Finally, after a decade of European Grid projects and effort of building the ES Grid community, critical issue is it sustainability and its structure to maintain and facilitate collaboration, expertise.
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Mr Horst Schwichtenberg (SCAI Fraunhofer Institute)13/04/2010, 14:00National and international activities and collaborationsOralThe ES community has actively participated in the EGEE projects as Strategic Discipline Clusters. In the framework of the DCI infrastructure and its related services deployed by the European Grid Initiative (EGI), the ES VRC will gather all ES partners to bring their contribution, i.e. resource and service providers, developers, support teams as well as end-users. This network of support and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Lukasz Kokoszkiewicz (CERN)13/04/2010, 14:20Support services and tools for user communitiesOralThe Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is one of the main tools used in the hydrology community. In the EU/FP7 EnviroGRIDS project it is used to study the Black See catchment and to simulate complex scenarios. In several cases, such as the study of the interplay of global and local scenarios, the availability of substantial computing resources in the Grid is important.Go to contribution page
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Mrs Denisa RODILA (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca), Prof. Dorian Gorgan (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca)13/04/2010, 14:40Scientific results obtained using distributed computing technologiesOralEnviroGRIDS (Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development) is a 4-years FP7 Project aiming to address the subjects of ecologically unsustainable development. The geospatial technologies offer very specialized functionality for Earth Science oriented applications as well as the Grid oriented technology that is able to support distributed and parallel...Go to contribution page
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Joel Puga (Universidade do Minho)13/04/2010, 15:00Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralCROSS-Fire is a Portuguese NGI funded project aiming to develop a grid-based risk management decision support system for the Civil Protection (CP), using forest fires as the main case study and FireStation (FS) as an application that simulates the fire spread over complex topography. CROSS-Fire uses EGEE to provide raw technological capability provision, including data management and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Eleni Katragkou (Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Mr Paschalis Korosoglou (Grid Operations and HPC Centre, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)13/04/2010, 16:00Scientific results obtained using distributed computing technologiesOralWe present results of regional climate-air quality simulations performed over Europe for the future decade 2091-2100 and the control decade 1991-2000 and briefly discuss the impact of climate change on air quality metrics over Europe throughout the 21st century. In order to meet the increased demands on computational resources the high resolution simulations were performed on the EGEE Grid....Go to contribution page
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Mr Davor Davidovic (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)13/04/2010, 16:20Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralIn this work the implementation and deploying of the Advanced Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) model on the SEEGRID-SCI grid infrastructure is presented. The goal of porting the model to the grid is to get more accurate and detailed forecast with operational speed-up on high-resolution model grids. The results and the application of the WRF model will be shown through the examples of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Geoff Quigley (Trinity College Dublin)13/04/2010, 16:40Scientific results obtained using distributed computing technologiesOralWe describe the federated national datastore activity of the e-INIS project, aimed at building a sustainable national e-Infrastructure for the Irish academic research community and how the CMIP5 project is using the datastore to meet their storage requirements. The datastore builds upon existing infrastructure and services, including Grid-Ireland, the National Grid Initiiative. Read access...Go to contribution page
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Juraj Bartok (Microstep-MIS)13/04/2010, 17:00Scientific results obtained using distributed computing technologiesOralWe present several applications from the domain of meteorology and crisis management that we developed and/or plan to develop. In particular, we present the IMS Model Suite - a complex software system designed to address the needs of accurate forecast of weather and hazardous weather phenomena, environmental pollution assessment, prediction of consequences of nuclear accident and radiological...Go to contribution page