BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: UCB//S2K-91-05
ENTRY:: February 4, 1994
TITLE:: AN OVERVIEW OF THE SEQUOIA 2000 PROJECT
DATE:: May 1991
AUTHOR:: Stonebraker, Michael
PAGES:: 11
ABSTRACT:: Achieving the goals of the U.S. Global
Change Research Program will depend not only on 
improved measurement systems, but also on improved 
data systems that will allow scientists to manipulate 
the resulting large-scale data sets and climate system 
models,  as well as compare model results with observations. 
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. Computer 
scientists and environmental researchers at several UC
campuses are collaborating to address these challenges. 
Refinements in computing--specifically involving storage, 
networking, file systems, extensible data base management,
and visualization--will be applied to specific Global Change 
applications.

We have named this project Sequoia 2000, after the giant trees 
of the Sierra Nevada, the largest organisms on the Earth's 
land surface.
RETRIEVAL:: postscript (in all.ps)
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