Integrating the Climate Science Modelling Language with geospatial software and services

查看全文 作　　者：[1]D.Lowe;[2]A.Woolf;[1]B.Lawrence;[1]S.Pascoe 机构地区：[1]Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,British Atmospheric Data Centre,Didcot,UK;[2]Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,STFC e-Science Centre,Didcot,UK 出　　处：《International Journal of Digital Earth》索引2009年第2卷第S01期,共11页 摘　　要：Much consideration is rightly given to the design of metadata models to describe data.At the other end of the data-delivery spectrum much thought has also been given to the design of geospatial delivery interfaces such as the Open Geospatial Consortium standards,Web Coverage Service(WCS),Web Map Server and Web Feature Service(WFS).Our recent experience with the Climate Science Modelling Language shows that an implementation gap exists where many challenges remain unsolved.To bridge this gap requires transposing information and data from one world view of geospatial climate data to another.Some of the issues include:the loss of information in mapping to a common information model,the need to create‘views’onto file-based storage,and the need to map onto an appropriate delivery interface(as with the choice between WFS and WCS for feature types with coverage-valued properties).Here we summarise the approaches we have taken in facing up to these problems. 关 键 词：CLIMATE MODELLING SCHEMA STANDARDS data INTEROPERABILITY