Integrating distributed climate data resources: The NERC datagrid

Proceedings of the 11th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 215-233

  Woolf, Andrew ^a   Lawrence, Bryan ^b   Lowry, Roy ^c   Van Dam, Kerstin Kleese ^a   Cramer, Ray ^c   Gutierrez, Marta ^b   Kondapalli, Siva ^c   Latham, Susan ^b   O'Neill, Kevin ^a   Stephens, Ag ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b British Atmospheric Data Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GRID COMPUTING; METADATA; METEOROLOGY; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CONTROL INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA RELATIONSHIPS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; ESSENTIAL PATTERNS; ISO STANDARDS; MODEL-BASED OPC; OPEN ARCHIVES INITIATIVES; VIRTUALISATION;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33748306513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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