Paper Info
Title
The Earth System Grid Federation: An open infrastructure for access to distributed geospatial data
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).
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/eScience.2012.6404471
eScience
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
reanalysis data set,common federation protocol,geophysical data,multiple Earth science project,geospatial data,next international assessment report,international collaboration,Earth System Grid Federation,ESGF software,climate change,open infrastructure,security infrastructure
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
6
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandro Fiore155647.44
Zed Pobre2141.54
Roland Schweitzer3141.54
Gavin M. Bell460.63
Galen Shipman51719.36
Rachana Ananthakrishnan623228.57
Daniel Crichton7213.26
Sebastian Denvil8141.54
Mark Morgan9141.54
Feiyi Wang1021122.60
Neill Miller11222.67
Estanislao Gonzalez12141.54
Luca Cinquini1312813.91
Chris Mattmann1412110.75
John Harney15814.94