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2018 , Volume 23, ¹ 4, p.32-49

Gordov E.P., Okladnikov I.G., Titov A.G., Fazliev A.Z.

Development of elements of a virtual research environment for the analysis, assessment and prediction of the consequences of global climate change

Intermediate results of the project aimed at improving methods of the detailed analysis, assessment and prediction of global climate change impact on the regional environment and climate are presented. New reliable interactive tools for in-depth statistical analysis and studying climate change impact obtained in this project will provide specialists, professionals, decision-makers and stakeholders with detailed climatic information. The project addresses the development of a topical virtual research environment (VRE) for the comprehensive study of ongoing and possible future climate change. It analyses the relevant subsequent effects. Such VRE will provide full topical informational required for studying regional economic, political and social consequences of the global climate change. The ultimate goal of this work is a design of hardware and software prototype supporting the topical virtual research environment for climate and environmental monitoring and analysis of the impact of climate change on socioeconomic processes on both local and regional scales. This VRE will integrate both already known and new archives of climate data sets with software realizations of traditional and advanced methods for statistical analysis of big spatial data sets.

VRE prototype will provide scientists, decision-makers and stakeholders the access to processing resources and services for interactive analysis of geographically distributed spatial data through a web browser. It will present the results of the analysis using geoinformation technologies and ensure the systematization of spatial data and associated climate information. Also, the work describes an ontological approach to this systematization, which makes it possible to compare the semantics of meteorological and climatic parameters used in different collections and applied problems.

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Keywords: virtual research environment, big environmental datasets, climate change

doi: 10.25743/ICT.2018.23.16489

Author(s):
Gordov Evgeny Petrovich
Dr. , Professor
Position: General Scientist
Office: Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological System SB RAS
Address: 634055, Russia, Tomsk, 10/3, Akademicheski av.
Phone Office: (3822)492187
E-mail: gordov@scert.ru
SPIN-code: 2612-5844

Okladnikov Igor Georgievich
PhD.
Position: Senior Research Scientist
Office: Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological System SB RAS, Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS
Address: 634055, Russia, Tomsk, 10/3, Akademicheski av.
Phone Office: (3822)492187
E-mail: oig@scert.ru
SPIN-code: 8577-5138

Titov Alexander Georgievich
Address: Russia, Tomsk, Tomsk, 10/3, Akademicheski av.

Fazliev Alexandr Zaripovich
PhD.
Position: Senior Research Scientist
Office: Institute of atmospheric optics SB RAS
Address: 634055, Russia, Tomsk, 1, Akademichesky Avenue
Phone Office: (3822) 49 22 77
E-mail: faz@iao.ru

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Gordov E.P., Okladnikov I.G., Titov A.G., Fazliev A.Z. Development of elements of a virtual research environment for the analysis, assessment and prediction of the consequences of global climate change // Computational technologies. 2018. V. 23. ¹ 4. P. 32-49
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