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| Chairs: Peter Thornton, Randy Kawa
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Discussion Questions:
- What are the Terrestrial Ecology, Biodiversity, and Applied Sciences communities' current and future needs for computational capability? Are we currently limited? Will we be?
- What types of modeling tools are needed? Is the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) something we should explore, recommend, or require for Terrestrial Ecology, Biodiversity, and Applied Sciences models?
- What are the Terrestrial Ecology, Biodiversity, and Applied Sciences communities' current and future needs for high performance computing and NASA's Project Columbia?
- Are the current satellite data products adequate for modeling? If not, what is needed?
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Perhaps you folks have some thoughts on this….
….some very preliminary thoughts on a “modeling web,” a long-term (5-10 yrs or more), vision-level concept. Since other organizations/projects/people (ESMF, OGC…) must be discussing this, please let me know if you know who they are.
Modeling web:
* Distributed network of interoperating models (and datasets)
* Model scope could include all physical and biological processes
* Output could feed ecological forecasting and other disciplines
* Web grows organically within a framework of data exchange standards and broad goals
* Each model or dataset maintained, operated, and served independently
* Best models used more and move forward (natural selection)
* Fits with GEOSS
* Global, interagency, international
* US contributors could include NASA (various programs), NOAA, USGS, NSF (NEON…)…
Purpose: to facilitate the coupling of models in different disciplines, and their use by other models or data users. Ecological forecasting would tend to be on the downstream side, fairly close to end-users such as conservation managers.
Other comments:
* There would be no central organization except probably to set standards for data exchange, and some broad goals.
* Participation in the web would be voluntary and up to the individual modeling groups and their sponsors.
* Such a model web would become, in effect, a single large model, analogous to a web computer.
– submitted by Gary Geller at 2006-08-25 08:59:55 |
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