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AN: SF31A-0713    [Abstracts]
TI: Describing Climate Numerical Models
AU: * Bouton, K A
EM: k.a.bouton@rdg.ac.uk
AF: CGAM, U Reading, Dept of Meteorology Earley Gate PO Box 243, Reading, RG6 6BB United Kingdom
AU: Steenman-Clark, L
EM: l.steenman-clark@rdg.ac.uk
AF: CGAM, U Reading, Dept of Meteorology Earley Gate PO Box 243, Reading, RG6 6BB United Kingdom
AB: The complexity of climate computer models has created an enormous challenge when trying to understand and compare resulting datasets and information. Efforts such as CF exist to describe the model data, but there has been no organized effort to uniformly describe numerical climate model components. The Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, in collaboration with the British Atmospheric Data Centre, Climateprediction.net and the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals are developing a framework to describe climate numerical models based on XML. The numerical model schema describes the complete suite of possibilities for the components of Earth System models. The model experiment schema describes the unique settings, the instantaneous state of the model, made from all available possibilities the model components used to create that experiment. The creation of a standardized framework to describe numerical model components, and the experiments run using those components, will ultimately provide for vast variety of methods which will allow a user to better understand and use the models and the data derived from them -- searchable content, compare and contrast tools, browsing, display, queries, cataloging, personalized interfaces to replaces notebooks.
UR: http://ugamp.nerc.ac.uk/bouton/model_metadata/index.php
DE: 3300 METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
DE: 1694 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
DE: 0910 Data processing
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting