The Earth System Grid Federation: An open infrastructure for access to distributed geospatial data

Luca Cinquini; Daniel Crichton; Chris Mattmann; John Harney; Galen Shipman; Feiyi Wang; Rachana Ananthakrishnan; Neill Miller; Sebastian Denvil; Mark Morgan; Zed Pobre; Gavin M. Bell; Bob Drach; Dean Williams; Philip Kershaw; Stephen Pascoe; Estanislao Gonzalez; Sandro Fiore; Roland Schweitzer

doi:10.1109/eScience.2012.6404471

The Earth System Grid Federation: An open infrastructure for access to distributed geospatial data

Luca Cinquini, Daniel Crichton, Chris Mattmann, John Harney, Galen Shipman, Feiyi Wang, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Neill Miller, Sebastian Denvil, Mark Morgan, Zed Pobre, Gavin M. Bell, Bob Drach, Dean Williams, Philip Kershaw, Stephen Pascoe, Estanislao Gonzalez, Sandro Fiore, Roland Schweitzer

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Abstract

The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a multi-agency, international collaboration that aims at developing the software infrastructure needed to facilitate and empower the study of climate change on a global scale. The ESGF's architecture employs a system of geographically distributed peer nodes, which are independently administered yet united by the adoption of common federation protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs). The cornerstones of its interoperability are the peer-to-peer messaging that is continuously exchanged among all nodes in the federation; a shared architecture and API for search and discovery; and a security infrastructure based on industry standards (OpenID, SSL, GSI and SAML). The ESGF software is developed collaboratively across institutional boundaries and made available to the community as open source. It has now been adopted by multiple Earth science projects and allows access to petabytes of geophysical data, including the entire model output used for the next international assessment report on climate change (IPCC-AR5) and a suite of satellite observations (obs4MIPs) and reanalysis data sets (ANA4MIPs).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2012.6404471
State	Published - 2012
Event	2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: Oct 8 2012 → Oct 12 2012

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Name	2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012

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Conference	2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago, IL
Period	10/8/12 → 10/12/12

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Natural Environment Research Council	ncas10005

Keywords

CMIP5
Climate science
Discovery
Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
Node
Peer-to-peer (P2P)
Search
Security

UN SDGs

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Cinquini, L., Crichton, D., Mattmann, C., Harney, J., Shipman, G., Wang, F., Ananthakrishnan, R., Miller, N., Denvil, S., Morgan, M., Pobre, Z., Bell, G. M., Drach, B., Williams, D., Kershaw, P., Pascoe, S., Gonzalez, E., Fiore, S., & Schweitzer, R. (2012). The Earth System Grid Federation: An open infrastructure for access to distributed geospatial data. In 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012 Article 6404471 (2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012). https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2012.6404471

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The Earth System Grid Federation: An open infrastructure for access to distributed geospatial data. / Cinquini, Luca; Crichton, Daniel; Mattmann, Chris et al.
2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012. 2012. 6404471 (2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science, e-Science 2012).

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