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Cloud Computing in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
This book provides an introduction to the use of cloud computing in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences with an emphasis on scientific applications and examples rather than on the infrastructure of cloud computing
Tiffany C Vance (Edited by), Nazila Merati (Edited by), Chaowei Yang (Edited by), May Yuan (Edited by)
9780128031926, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 30 March 2016
454 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg
Cloud Computing in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences provides the latest information on this relatively new platform for scientific computing, which has great possibilities and challenges, including pricing and deployments costs and applications that are often presented as primarily business oriented. In addition, scientific users may be very familiar with these types of models and applications, but relatively unfamiliar with the intricacies of the hardware platforms they use. The book provides a range of practical examples of cloud applications that are written to be accessible to practitioners, researchers, and students in affiliated fields. By providing general information on the use of the cloud for oceanographic and atmospheric computing, as well as examples of specific applications, this book encourages and educates potential users of the cloud. The chapters provide an introduction to the practical aspects of deploying in the cloud, also providing examples of workflows and techniques that can be reused in new projects.
Foreword List of Contributors/Author biographies Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Primer on cloud computing 2. Analysis patterns for cloud centric atmospheric and ocean research 3. Forces and Patterns In The Scientific Cloud: Recent History and Beyond 4. Data-driven Atmospheric Sciences using Cloud-based Cyberinfrastructure: Plans, opportunities, and challenges for a real-time weather data facility 5. Supporting marine sciences with Cloud services: technical feasibility and challenges 6. How we used cloud services to develop a 4D browser visualisation of environmental data at the Met Office Informatics Lab 7. Cloud computing in Education 8. Cloud computing for the distribution of numerical weather predictions outputs 9. A2CI: A Cloud-based, Service-oriented Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure to Support Atmospheric Research 10. Polar CI Portal: A Cloud-based Polar Resource Discovery Engine 11. Climate analytics as a service 12. Using cloud-based analytics to save lives 13. Hadoop in Cloud to Analyze Climate Datasets 14. LiveOcean 15. Usage of Social Media and Cloud Computing during Natural Hazards 16. Dubai Operational Forecasting System in Amazon cloud 17. Utilizing cloud computing to support scalable atmospheric modeling: A case study of cloud-enabled ModelE 18. ERMA to the cloud 19. A Distributed, RESTful Data Service in the Cloud in a Federal Environment: A Cautionary Tale 20. Conclusions and the road ahead
Subject Areas: Databases [UN], Oceanography [seas RBKC], Library, archive & information management [GLC]
