Using spatial principles to optimize distributed computing for enabling the physical science discoveries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5498-5503

  Yang, Chaowei ^a   Wu, Huayi ^a   Huang, Qunying ^a   Li, Zhenlong ^a   Li, Jing ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SIMULATION; SPATIAL COMPUTING;

EID: 79955001355     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909315108     Document Type: Article

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