High-performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC's Land Information System

Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 157-165

  Peters Lidard, Christa D ^a   Houser, P R ^b   Tian, Y ^a,c   Kumar, S V ^a,c   Geiger, J ^a   Olden, S ^a   Lighty, L ^a   Doty, B ^d   Dirmeyer, P ^d   Adams, J ^d   Mitchell, K ^e   Wood, E F ^f   Sheffield, J ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Earth system modeling; Ensemble; High performance computing; Information systems; Interoperability; Land surface modeling; Object oriented frameworks; Weather

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE MODELING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548676836     PISSN: 16145046     EISSN: 16145054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11334-007-0028-x     Document Type: Article

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