Climate change: A grand software challenge

Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, FoSER 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-103

  Easterbrook, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EARTH SYSTEMS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH AGENDA; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79951660096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882362.1882383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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