Climate and Environmental Database Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Michael Lautenschlager, Manfred Reinke

   Pages 1-9

3. Concept of the Climate Database System at the DKRZ

   • Michael Lautenschlager

   Pages 11-24

4. The Evolution of a Space- / Earth-Science-Information System and its Directory Interchange Format

   • Hartwig Schroeter, Lola Olsen

   Pages 25-34

5. The CERA Data Model

   • Ingo Jessel

   Pages 35-45

6. The Climate Information System KLIS at the DWD

   • Johannes Behrendt, Stefan Rösner

   Pages 47-55

7. A Database Design and Implementation for Scientific Data Related to the MIPAS-Balloon-Spectrometer

   • Olaf Trieschmann, Epaminondas Kapetanios, Hans-Peter Lorenz

   Pages 57-71

8. MIDAS — The UK Met Office Project to Replace its Climate Data Banks

   • John Ward, Paul Cowley

   Pages 73-85

9. The International Paleoclimate Database (PKDB)

   • Inigo Lentner

   Pages 87-93

10. WATiS — the Wadden Sea Information System Experience from an Operational System

    • Hansjörg L. Krasemann, Rolf Riethmüller

    Pages 95-104

11. The Realization of a Climate Database for the Swiss Meteorological Institute

    • Guido Haller, Peter Müller, Sander Taschi

    Pages 105-116

12. The Meteorological Information System at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute

    • Gert König-Langlo, Beate Marx

    Pages 117-125

13. Providing Map-Driven Database Access Via the World Wide Web

    • Beate Marx, Michael Diepenbroek, Chris Dodge, Manfred Reinke

    Pages 127-134

14. A Distributed Administration System for Ocean Simulation Data

    • Chris Dodge, Heinz Möring, Hans Pfeiffenberger, Arne Schulz

    Pages 135-146

15. SEPAN — Sediment and Paleoclimate Data Network

    • Michael Diepenbroek, Hannes Grobe, Manfred Reinke

    Pages 147-159

16. New Dimensions in Relational Database Technology for Spatial Data Management

    • Hans Viehmann, Gwendolyn Gall, Edric Keighan, Catharine Kristian

    Pages 161-169

17. EMPRESS MET: The Meteorological Database Management System Current and Future Development

    • Njai Wong

    Pages 171-179

18. Multi-Terabyte SMP Data Warehouse: The Cray CS6400/Oracle7 Solution

    • Brad Carlile

    Pages 181-188

19. Polar Data Directory Systems

    • Manfred Reinke, Beate Marx

    Pages 189-197

Climate and Environmental Database Systems contains the papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Climate and Environmental Database Systems, held November 21-23, 1995, in Hamburg, Germany.
Climate and environmental data may be separated into two classes, large amounts of well structured data and smaller amounts of less structured data. The large amounts are produced by numerical climate models and by satellites, handling data in the order of magnitude of 100 Tbytes for the climate modelling sites and 1000 Tbytes for the recording and processing of satellite data. Smaller amounts of poorly structured data are the environmental data, which come mainly from observations and measurements. Present-day problems in data management are connected with a variety of data types.
Climate and Environmental Database Systems addresses the state of the art, practical experience, and future perspectives for climate and environmental database systems, and may be used as a text for a graduate level course on the subject or as a reference for researchers or practitioners in industry.

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• DKRZ - German Climate Computing Centre, Hamburg, Germany

  Michael Lautenschlager

• AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

  Manfred Reinke

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