Data-Intensive Science

CHAPTER 6

Earth System Grid Federation: Infrastructure to Support Climate Science Analysis as an International Collaboration

A Data-Driven Activity for Extreme-Scale Climate Science

Dean N. Williams, Ian T. Foster, Bryan Lawrence, and Michael Lautenschlager

CONTENTS

6.1    Introduction to Climate Science

6.1.1    Model Intercomparison Projects

6.1.1.1    Earth System Grid Federation and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

6.2    Federation

6.3    Data Preparation

6.3.1    Data Format and Metadata

6.3.2    Publisher

6.3.3    MetaFor Questionnaire and CIM

6.3.4    Quality Control Levels and DOI

6.3.5    Federated Metadata

6.4    Security

6.4.1    Metadata

6.4.2    Data Integrity

6.5    Data Movement

6.5.1    Wget

6.5.2    Bulk Data Mover