Title
MERRA Analytic Services: Meeting the Big Data challenges of climate science through cloud-enabled Climate Analytics-as-a-Service
Abstract
•We describe the major Big Data challenges in climate science.•We show how Cloud Computing can address Big Data challenges in climate science.•We describe a generative approach to meeting Big Data challenges in climate science.•We provide a first description of the NASA Climate Data Services API.•We show how Climate Analytics-as-a-Service (CAaaS) is enabled by Cloud Computing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2013.12.003
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
MapReduce,Hadoop,Data analytics,Data services,Cloud Computing,Generativity,iRODS,MERRA,ESGF,BAER
Journal
61
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0198-9715
30
1.26
References 
Authors
9
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John L. Schnase1444105.61
Daniel Q. Duffy2625.54
glenn s tamkin3301.26
Denis Nadeau4505.83
j h thompson5301.26
cristina m grieg6301.26
mark a mcinerney7301.26
William P. Webster8321.77