Title :
NOAA´s environmental data system requirements: in search of a distributed data management system
Author :
Withee, Gregory W. ; Turnbull, William T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
NOAA´s data holdings and user demand for data are both growing rapidly. By the year 2001, we expect to have over I petabyte of environmental data in our archives and to service nearly a million users per year. The archives will be distributed across NOAA, while our users will be both national and international. The modern NOAA data and information management system must serve all users transparently while efficiently handling these tremendous volumes of data
Keywords :
biology computing; data handling; distributed databases; environmental science computing; very large databases; NOAA; distributed data management system; environmental data system requirements; information management system; user demand; Data systems; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Geophysics; Global warming; Investments; Power generation economics; Sustainable development; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Mass Storage Systems, 1994. 'Towards Distributed Storage and Data Management Systems.' First International Symposium. Proceedings., Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Annecy
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5580-1
DOI :
10.1109/MASS.1994.373014
