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AN: NG11A-0178    [PDF]
TI: Earth System Grid II (ESG): Turning Climate Model Datasets Into Community Resources
AU: * Williams, D
EM: williams13@llnl.gov
AF: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550 United States
AU: Middleton, D
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AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Foster, I
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AF: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439 United States
AU: Nevedova, V
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AF: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439 United States
AU: Kesselman, C
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AF: USC Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 United States
AU: Chervenak, A
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AF: USC Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 United States
AU: Bharathi, S
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AF: USC Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 United States
AU: Drach, B
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AF: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550 United States
AU: Cinquni, L
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AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Brown, D
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AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Strand, G
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AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Fox, P
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AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Garcia, J
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AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305 United States
AU: Bernholdte, D
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AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 94550 United States
AU: Chanchio, K
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AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 94550 United States
AU: Pouchard, L
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AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 94550 United States
AU: Chen, M
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AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 94550 United States
AU: Shoshani, A
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AF: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Sim, A
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AF: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AB: High-resolution, long-duration simulations performed with advanced DOE SciDAC/NCAR climate models will produce tens of petabytes of output. To be useful, this output must be made available to global change impacts researchers nationwide, both at national laboratories and at universities, other research laboratories, and other institutions. To this end, we propose to create a new Earth System Grid, ESG-II - a virtual collaborative environment that links distributed centers, users, models, and data. ESG-II will provide scientists with virtual proximity to the distributed data and resources that they require to perform their research. The creation of this environment will significantly increase the scientific productivity of U.S. climate researchers by turning climate datasets into community resources. In creating ESG-II, we will integrate and extend a range of Grid and collaboratory technologies, including the DODS remote access protocols for environmental data, Globus Toolkit technologies for authentication, resource discovery, and resource access, and Data Grid technologies developed in other projects. We will develop new technologies for (1) creating and operating "filtering servers" capable of performing sophisticated analyses, and (2) delivering results to users. In so doing, we will simultaneously contribute to climate science and advance the state of the art in collaboratory technology. We expect our results to be useful to numerous other DOE projects. The three-year R\&D program will be undertaken by a talented and experienced team of computer scientists at five laboratories (ANL, LBNL, LLNL, NCAR, ORNL) and one university (ISI), working in close collaboration with climate scientists at several sites.
UR: http://www.earthsystemgrid.org
DE: 0900 EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS
SC: Nonlinear Geophysics [NG]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting