Enabling worldwide access to climate simulation data: the earth system grid (ESG)
D. E. Middleton, David E. Bernholdt, David Brown, Min Chen, Ann Chervenak, L. Cinquini, Robert S. Drach, Peter Fox, Philip W. Jones, Carl Kesselman, Ian T Foster, Veronika Nefedova, Arie Shoshani, Alex Sim, Gary Strand, D Williams · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2006
With support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Scientific Discover Through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, we have developed and deployed the Earth System Grid (ESG) to make climate simulation data easily accessible to the global climate modelling and analysis community. ESG currently has 2500 registered users and manages 160 TB of data in archives distributed around the nation. From this past year alone, more than 200 scientific journal articles have been published from analyses of data delivered by the ESG.