作者: Luca Cinquini , Daniel Crichton , Chris Mattmann , John Harney , Galen Shipman
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURE.2013.07.002
关键词: World Wide Web 、 Earth System Grid 、 Geospatial analysis 、 Data publishing 、 Coupled model intercomparison project 、 Application programming interface 、 Interoperability 、 Petabyte 、 Computer science 、 Climate change 、 User interface
摘要: Abstract The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a multi-agency, international collaboration that aims at developing the software infrastructure needed to facilitate and empower study of climate change on global scale. ESGF’s architecture employs system geographically distributed peer nodes, which are independently administered yet united by adoption common federation protocols application programming interfaces (APIs). cornerstones its interoperability peer-to-peer messaging continuously exchanged among all nodes in federation; shared API for search discovery; security based industry standards (OpenID, SSL, GSI SAML). ESGF stack integrates custom components (for data publishing, searching, user interface, messaging), developed collaboratively team, with popular engines (Tomcat, Solr) available from open source community. full has now been adopted multiple science projects allows access petabytes geophysical data, including entire Fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) output used Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report (AR5) suite satellite observations (obs4MIPs) reanalysis sets (ANA4MIPs). This paper presents as successful example integration disparate technologies into cohesive, wide functional system, describes our experience building operating federated serve needs