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Reports

ReSC Activity Report, February 2009. This summarizes the ReSC's achievements during the period November 2005-February 2009. [pdf]

The Environmental e-Science Revolution

The ReSC has published several papers in the recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society. Please see the website and flyer (including table of contents) for this issue. Note that all articles in this issue are free to access. (ReSC contributions are listed below.)

Papers and presentations

Alastair Gemmell, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Martin Price, Keiran Millard, Quillon Harpham, The use of Standard OGC Web Services in Integrating Distributed Model, Satellite and In-situ Datasets, EOS Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN33F-07 [PPT slides]

Alastair Gemmell, Keith Haines, Comparing Argo QC with that of operational centres presented at the Argo QC meeting held at Reading 27th Nov 2009. [PDF Slides] (click for presentations by Simon Good on EN3 QC [PPT slides] and Justin Buck on Argo QC [PPTX Slides] from this meeting)

Alastair Gemmell, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Greg Smith, Martin Price, Andy Saulter, Keiran Millard, Quillon Harpham, Managing and visualising large volumes of environmental data: the work of the Reading e-Science Centre presented at the 12th ECMWF workshop on meteorological operational systems, ECMWF, Reading, 2-6 November 2009. [Zipped PPT and movies] (choose 'save to disk', then extract files, then open PPT)

J.D. Blower, F. Blanc, R. Clancy, P. Cornillon, C. Donlon, P. Hacker, K. Haines, S.C. Hankin, T. Loubrieu, S. Pouliquen, M. Price, T. Pugh, A. Srinavasan, Serving GODAE data and products to the ocean community, Oceanography 22(3) September 2009, pp. 70-79 [paper]

A.L. Gemmell, G.C. Smith, K. Haines, J.D. Blower, Validation of ocean model syntheses against hydrography using a new web application, Journal of Operational Oceanography 2(2) August 2009, pp. 29-41

Dan Bretherton, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, The NERC Cluster Grid, presented at the NERC Cluster Computing Summer School 2009, 8-9 July 2009, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. [PPT]

M. Atkinson, D. Britton, P. Coveney, D. De Roure, N. Garnett, N. Geddes, R. Gurney, K. Haines, L. Hughes, D. Ingram, P. Jeffreys, L. Lyon, I. Osborne, R. Perrott, R. Procter, C. Rusbridge, A. Trefethen, P. Watson, Century-of-Information Research (CIR): A Strategy for Research and Innovation in the Century of Information. [paper] Author posting © Taylor and Francis 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor and Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Prometheus, Volume 27 Issue 1, pp.27-45, March 2009. doi:10.1080/08109020802657479

Jeremy Tandy, Jon Blower, Chris Little, Met-Ocean applications using geospatial standards, presented at EGU 2009, Vienna. [PDF slides] [PPT slides]

G. Aloisio, S. Fiore, M. Petitdidier, P. Fox, S. Denvil, J. Blower, H. Schwichtenberg, R. Barbera, The Climate-G testbed: towards a large scale data sharing environment for climate change, EGU09, Vienna. [abstract]

Alastair Gemmell, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Greg Smith, Martin Price, Andy Saulter, Keiran Millard, Quillon Harpham, An Open Approach to Ocean Data Visualisation, presented at the Royal Meteorological Society discussion meeting on The Work of the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (NCOF), London, 18th February 2009. [Zipped PPT and movies] (choose 'save to disk', then extract files, then open PPT)

Alastair Gemmell, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Martin Price, Keiran Millard, Quillon Harpham, Integrating Distributed Physical and Biological Marine data using OGC Web Services, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN52A-04 [Zipped PPT and movies] (choose 'save to disk', then extract files, then open PPT)

Alastair Gemmell, Greg Smith, Keith Haines, Jon Blower, Evaluation of water masses in ocean synthesis products, CLIVAR Exchanges 47 pp. 7-9, 2008 [Download PDF of this issue]

Jon Blower, Frederique Blanc, Peter Cornillon, Steve Hankin, Thomas Loubrieu, Underpinning technologies for oceanographic data sharing, visualization and analysis: Review and future outlook, GODAE Final Symposium, Nice, 2008 [paper] [PPT slides]

Jon Blower, Alastair Gemmell, Andrew Woolf, Dominic Lowe, Arif Shaon, Stephen Pascoe, Keiran Millard, Quillon Harpham, Harmonization of environmental data using the Climate Science Modelling Language, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, 2008 [PPT slides]

Keith Haines, Jon Blower, Chunlei Liu, Adit Santokhee, Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet, Journal of Operational Oceanography 1(2) pp. 35-39, 2008

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Adit Santokhee, Chunlei Liu, Godiva2: Interactive visualization of environmental data on the web, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 367, 1035-9, 2009 [paper]

Dan Bretherton, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Greg Smith, Running Climate Models on Grids using G-Rex, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 367, 847-53, 2009 [paper]

Keith Haines, Leon Hermanson, Chunlei Liu, Debbie Putt, Rowan Sutton, Alan Iwi, Doug Smith, Decadal climate prediction (project GCEP), Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 367, 925-37, 2009 [paper]

Jason Holt, James Harle, Roger Proctor, Sylvain Michel, Mike Ashworth, Crispian Batstone, Icarus Allen, Robert Holmes, Tim Smyth, Keith Haines, Dan Bretherton, Gregory Smith, Modelling the global coastal ocean, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 367, 939-51, 2009 [paper]

Dan Bretherton, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Running Climate Models On The NERC Cluster Grid Using G-Rex, presented at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 8-11 September 2008, Edinburgh. [PPT]

Alastair Gemmell, Keith Haines, Greg Smith, Jon Blower, Ocean synthesis inter-comparison using OceanDIVA, presented at the Ocean Science Meeting, 2-7 March 2008, Orlando, Florida. [zipped PPT and movie] (choose 'save to disk', then extract files, then open PPT) [PPT slides only]

Dan Bretherton, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Grid Remote Execution of Large Climate Models (NERC Cluster Grid), presented at the 3rd ESA Grid and e-Collaboration Workshop, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, 2008 [PPT]

Lizzie Froude, Storm tracking with remote data and distributed computing, Computers and Geosciences, 34(11) pp. 1621-1630, 2008 doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2007.11.004

Alastair Gemmell, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Greg Smith, Using Virtual Globes and a Java web Application to Visualize and Compare Ocean Observations and Model Data, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN42A-04 [Zipped PPT and movies] (choose 'save to disk', then extract files, then open PPT)

Jon Blower, Alastair Gemmell, Keith Haines, Peter Kirsch, Nathan Cunningham, Andrew Fleming, Roy Lowry, Sharing and visualizing environmental data using Virtual Globes, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 10-13 September 2007, pp 102-109, ISBN 978-0-9553988-3-4 [download paper] [PowerPoint slides only] [Zipped PPT and movies]

Bryan Lawrence, Philip Kershaw, Jon Blower, Practical access control using NDG security, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 10-13 September 2007, pp 262-269, ISBN 978-0-9553988-3-4 [download paper]

Gregory C. Smith, Keith Haines, Dan Lea, Jon Blower, Alastair Gemmell, Ben McDonald, Reconstructing global ocean variability using a physically-based data assimilation method, Proceedings of the Royal Meteorological Society Conference, 3-6 September 2007 [abstract] (Enabled by OceanDIVA software)

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Alastair Gemmell (2007), Dynamic Quick View, interoperability and the future, presented at the 4th annual MERSEA meeting, Rome, April 23-24 [download presentation]

Jon Blower, Andrew Harrison, Keith Haines (2006), Styx Grid Services: Lightweight middleware for efficient scientific workflows, Scientific Programming, 14, pp. 209-216 [paper]

L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges, E. Roeckner (2006), Storm Tracks and Climate Change, Journal of Climate 19, pp. 3518-3543. [download paper] (Enabled by Reading Campus Grid)

Jon Blower, Dan Bretherton, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Adit Santokhee (2006), Exploring Large Marine Datasets Using an Interactive Website and Google Earth, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED23C-08 [abstract] [download presentation]

Jon Blower, Dan Bretherton, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Chris Rawlings, Adit Santokhee, Ian Smith (2006), Using Google Earth in Marine Research and Operational Decision Support, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN43A-0903 [abstract] [download poster]

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Building simple, easy-to-use Grids with Styx Grid Services and SSH, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 18-21 September 2006 [download paper]

Jon Blower, Andrew Harrison, Keith Haines, Styx Grid Services: Lightweight, easy-to-use middleware for scientific workflows, International Conference on Computer Science 2006, and Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3993 996-1003 (2006). DOI: 10.1007/11758532_135

Keith Haines, Jon Blower, Chunlei Liu, Adit Santokhee, Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet, Proceedings of the IMarEst World Maritime Technology Conference 6-10 March 2006 [download paper]

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Ed Llewellin, Styx Grid Services: lightweight, easy-to-use middleware for e-Science, Presented in the UK e-Science booth at SuperComputing, Seattle, 15-17 November 2005 [download presentation] [download poster]

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Ed Llewellin, Data streaming, workflow and firewall-friendly Grid Services with Styx, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 19-22 September 2005 [download paper] [download presentation]

Adit Santokhee, Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Spatial data activities at the Reading e-Science Centre, presented at the Workshop on Grid middleware and Geospatial standards for Earth System Science data, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh 6-7 September 2005 [download presentation]

A. Santokhee, C.L. Liu, J.D. Blower, K. Haines, I. Barrodale, E.Davies, Managing and serving large volumes of gridded spatial environmental data, Proceedings of the 11th EC GI & GIS Workshop, ESDI: Setting the framework 29 June-1st July 2005 [download abstract] [download presentation]

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Adit Santokhee, Composing workflows in the environmental sciences using Inferno, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 1-3 September 2004 [download paper] [download presentation]

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Adit Santokhee, GADS: a Web Service for accessing large environmental data sets, presented at EOGEO international workshop, London, June 23-25 2004 [download presentation]

Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Andrew Woolf, Kecheng Liu, Adityarajsingh Santokhee, Ying Zhao, GADS: Using Web Services to access large data sets, Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2-4 September 2003 [download paper]

Woolf, A., Haines, K and Liu, C, A Web Service Model for Climate Data Access on the Grid, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 17(3) 281-295 (2003) [download]

Posters

The Reading e-Science Centre download

Godiva2: Interactive visualization of environmental data on the web download

OceanDIVA: Ocean Data Inter-comparison and Visualization Application [PDF]

S. Hankin, J.D. Blower, T. Carval, K. Casey, C. Donlon, O. Lauret, T. Loubrieu, L. Petit de la Villeon, J. Pioll�, S. Smith, A. Srinivasan, J. Trinanes, �. God�y Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions for NetCDF - the foundation of GODAE data interoperability, GODAE Final Symposium, Nice, 2008 Poster (PDF), and Abstract

Delivering Environmental Web Services (DEWS) non-technical overview (zipped PDF), technical overview (PPT)

Grid for Coupled Ensemble Prediction (GCEP) download
Some preliminary results of GCEP download

Storing and Manipulating Gridded Data in Spatially-Enabled Databases download

Distributed System Diagnostics for Weather and Climate download

Styx Grid Services: Lightweight, easy-to-use middleware for e-Science download
Data streaming, collaborative visualization and computational steering using Styx Grid Services download

"The NERC Cluster Grid", eScience All Hands Meeting, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, 2007 (ReSC booth poster) download
"Grid Remote EXecution (G-Rex) of Large Climate Models", 3rd ESA Grid and e-Collaboration Workshop, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, 2008 download
"Grid Remote EXecution (G-Rex) of Climate Models", Final NERC e-Science Programme meeting - "The Environmental e-Science Revolution", The Royal Society, London, 2008 download

Workshops

Jon Blower, Stuart Ballard, Google Earth and other geobrowsing tools in the environmental sciences, NIEeS, April 2-3 2007 (website)

Keith Haines and Ag Stephens, Developing applications for real-time environmental data, NIEeS, February 22-23 2005 (website)

Jon Blower, Web Services for environmental applications, NIEeS, January 25-26 2005 (website)

Martin Dove, Stuart Ballard, Martin Keegan, Keith Haines, Jon Blower, Data management in environmental e-Science: particular angles, problems and successes, "Birds of a Feather" session at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 1-3 September 2004

Ganglia Web Frontend: Load and performance statistics
Portal: Cluster activity reports