Authors:
Andrew Dittrich
;
Sergiu Dascalu
and
Mehmet Gunes
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, United States
Keyword(s):
Climate Change, Data Repositories, Web Services, Service Composition.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Services Science
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telecommunications
;
Web Services
;
Web-Based Software Development
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Climate change is the subject of intense research, covering a broad range of causes and effects over long periods of time. Large data sources are needed to support this research, prompting scientists to turn to repositories to collect and share data. Many repositories exist with various data formats and access methods, presenting a challenging environment for researchers. Data portals help to address this by providing a central location for data on a specific topic or region. The Nevada Climate Change Portal is one example, which provides data to support research on Nevada’s climate. This portal was funded under an NSF EPSCoR grant with a goal of sharing resources with similar portals in New Mexico and Idaho. This paper proposes the ATMOS toolkit to help meet this goal and to address challenges facing climate change researchers. ATMOS is a plugin-based toolkit that provides Access to Map and Tabular Online Services uniformly, regardless of the underlying source. The design and constr
uction of ATMOS are discussed, showing how the toolkit supports the Nevada Climate Change Portal, and how it can meet future needs of researchers.
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