Data issues at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change

Abstract

Climate Change research is even more becoming a data intensive and oriented scientific activity. Petabytes of climate data, big collections of datasets are continuously produced, delivered, accessed, processed by scientists and researchers at multiple sites at an international level. This work presents the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) initiative, discussing data and metadata issues and dealing with both architectural and infrastructural aspects concerning the adopted grid enabled solution. A complete overview of the grid services deployed at the Centre is presented as well as the client side support (CMCC data portal and monitoring dashboard).

The Climate-G testbed: towards large scale distributed data management for climate change

“…Related work in this area are: (i) at international level the Earth System Grid Federation [1], [7] in the US and the EU funded IS-ENES project; and (ii) at national level the C3Grid [2] initiative in Germany, the NERC DataGrid [3], [16] in UK and the CMCC [4], [17] in Italy. All of these projects basically address and share important challenges such as the distributed data management, the transparent access to the data via scientific gateways, the metadata management (both at schema and service level), the data analysis and visualization, the large scale data replication, etc.…”