Cloud computing in ocean and atmospheric sciences. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tiffany Vance, Nazila Merati, Chaowei Yang, May Yuan.
• Editors: Vance, Tiffany C; Merati, Nazila; Yang, Chaowei; Yuan, May
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.46; Oceanography; Atmospheric physics; Cloud computing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128031933
• Related ISBNs: 9780128031926
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