Academia Sinica watches global carbon
Observing how the level of carbon fluctuates between the atmosphere, living creatures and the ground tells researchers much about climate change.
One of the ways to gather this data is with a network of collecting towers, whose raw material provides information for use in carbon cycle observation and global climate change. However, the ecological data collected from the sensors of different tower sites are stored in different databases which do not have a standardized format. To reprocess the data has so far required complicated pipeline computing.
But now, the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center has developed a new, grid-oriented way in which to deal with carbon flux observations.
To read the full article http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001915
Source: iSGTW 12 August 2009
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