BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: UCB//S2K-91-01
ENTRY:: February 4, 1994
TITLE:: To Support Global Change Research
DATE:: September 17, 1991
AUTHOR:: Stonebraker, Michael
AUTHOR:: Dozier, Jeff
PAGES:: 26
ABSTRACT:: Improved data management is crucial to the success of
current scientific investigations of Global Change. New modes of
research, especially the synergistic interactions between observations
and  model-based simulations, will require massive amounts of
diverse data to be stored, organized, accessed, distributed,
visualized, and analyzed. Achieving the goals of the U. S. Global
Change Research Program will largely depend on more advanced data
management systems will allow scientists to manipulate large-scale
data sets and climate system models.

Refinements in computing--specifically involving storage, networking,
distributed file systems, extensible distributed data base management,
and visualization--can be applied to a range of Global Change applications
through a series of specific investigation scenarios. Computer
scientists and environmental researchers at several UC campuses
will collaborate to address these challenges. This project com-
plements both NASA's EOS project and UCAR's (University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research) Climate System's Modeling Program in
addressing the gigantic data requirements of Earth System Science
research before the turn of the century. Therefore, we have named
it Sequoia 2000, after the giant trees of the Sierra Nevada, the
largest organisms on the Earth's land surface.
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