Web portal ATMOS as basis for integrated investigations of Siberia environment

E.P. Gordov, V.N. Lykosov, A.Z. FazlievSCERT, INM RAS, IAO SB RAS

Web portal on atmospheric environment is developed as a be-lingual information resource in area of atmospheric physics and chemistry and environmental applications.

It opens an access to integrated thematic information, environmental data, models and results as well as to relevant educational resources for professional community, students and general public.

The portal has all typical component and services. Also it has specific scientific services and instruments, which are on-line access to models and algorithms, thematic data collections and extensive educational resources of different level.

The portal is designed as a set of interrelated scientific sites. Each scientific site is an information-computational system designed in Internet technologies. Namely this makes the portal quite an appropriate instrument for performance of investigations within interdisciplinary research projects devoted to environmental studies in Siberia.

INTAS grant 00189 support is acknowledged.

Plan

• General description

• Grid

• The state of the art

• SGBP and related applications

ATMOS: a scientific WWW portal for the atmospheric

environment

FedraFedra KK.,., LowrenceLowrence B.,B., GordovGordov E.P., E.P., FazlievFazliev A.Z.,A.Z.,LykosovLykosov V.N., A.Z. V.N., A.Z. IppolitovIppolitov I.I., I.I., PolishchukPolishchuk Yu.MYu.M., .,

KrutikovKrutikov V.A., V.A., MikhalevMikhalev A.A.V.V.

INTAS 00-1892001- 2003

INTAS 00-1892001- 2003

Research Teams

Environmental Systems and Services, Austria (http://www.ess.ac.at)

British Atmospheric Data Centre, UK (http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/)

Dr. Kurt Fedra - coordinator Dr. Bryan Lawrence, A. De Rudder

Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Russia (http://www.iao.ru/)

Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS, Russia (http://www.inm.ras.ru)

Prof. E.P. Gordov, Drs. A.Z. Fazliev, V.F. Golovko, S.N. Mikhailenko, O.B. Rodimova

Drs. Sci. V. N. Lykosov, E.M. Volodin,

Prof. V.P. Dymnikov, Dr. V.Ya.Galin

Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Russia (http://www.iszf.irk.ru/)

Institute of Optical Monitoring SB RAS, Russia (http://www.iom.tsc.ru/)

Dr. A.V. Mikhalev Dr. V.V.Grechnev, V. Egorov

Dr. Sci. I.I. Ippolitov

The Geo-Information Center of SB RAS, Russia (http://www-gis.ipc.tsc.ru/)

Profs. Yu.M.Polichtchouk, V.A.Krutikov

Databases. TomskDatabases. TomskDatabases for field and regular measurements of physical and chemical characteristics of atmosphere

Boundary layerMeteoparameters (Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction, Pressure), Gamma Radiation, Total Radiation, Concentrations (NO, NO2, SO2, CO, O3, CO2),Aerosol (directional scattering coefficient, countable aerosol concentration (0,1-1μm), mass concentration of soot, concentration of aerosol particles) CH4 (Vasugan Wetland)

Airborne expeditionsThe measurements were performed during field expeditions in Tomsk Region and some other regions of Former Soviet Union

Aerosol station TOR-station

Databases. IrkutskDatabases. IrkutskDBs for field and regular measurements of physical and chemical characteristics

Boundary layerMeteoparameters (Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction, Pressure), UV radiation

Upper and Middle AtmosphereIncoherent scattering radar data (temperature of electrons and ions, electron density), atmospheric airglow

The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) is among the largest astronomical instruments.IS-radar (http://rp.iszf.irk.ru/)

A military radar system, consisting of two identical radars, was transferred to the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP).

Models and calculationsModels and calculations

• 3D - climate model (INM RAS)• 1D model “atmosphere-vegetation-snow-soil”• 1D model “atmosphere-vegetation-snow-soil”

adjusted for permafrost reaction study• A model of long- and short-wave radiation• The calculation of far wings of the spectral line

shape• Mie scattering on a spherical single particle and an

ensemble of particles• Kinetic model of chemical transformation• ……

HardwareHardware

Nodes10

Processors 20

Network 3 Com Gigabit Ethernet SuperStack 4900

OS RedHat Linux 7.1

Server 2*Pentium III 1Ghz, RAM 1Gb

Node 2*Pentium III 1Ghz, RAM 1Gb

Portable Implementation of the High-Performance Linpack, Benchmark for Distributed-Memory Computers (Dimension

30000*30000)

11.5Gfp

ObjectivesObjectives

1. To design a concept and architecture for a scientific thematic WWW site for atmospheric sciences;

2. To prepare and to integrate into such a thematic scientific portal the following information resources:

- Extensive databases containing results of atmospheric and related measurements performed by researchers from institutes in Siberia;

– Simulation models and related analytical tools;– A multidisciplinary information system which will also

include tutorial components oriented to students and the general public;

– A detailed description and geographic information systems (GIS) of Lake Baikal and West Siberia Lowland;

ObjectivesObjectives

3. To provide the scientific community with the remote access to local collections of data and effective tools for their usage;

4. To link advanced simulation tools to regional GIS and atmospheric, climatic and environmental data and raise environmental understanding in the region;

5. To provide environmental managers from public institutions and industry with valuable background information, data, and easy-to-use tools for environmental analysis;

6. To provide the local population with reliable and easily accessible information and forecasts of atmospheric, climatic and environmental conditions.

3. To provide the scientific community with the remote access to local collections of data and effective tools for their usage;

4. To link advanced simulation tools to regional GIS and atmospheric, climatic and environmental data and raise environmental understanding in the region;

5. To provide environmental managers from public institutions and industry with valuable background information, data, and easy-to-use tools for environmental analysis;

6. To provide the local population with reliable and easily accessible information and forecasts of atmospheric, climatic and environmental conditions.

Thematic web sites

1. Atmospheric Spectroscopy (http://saga.atmos.iao.ru)

2. Atmospheric Aerosols (http://aerosol.atmos.iao.ru)

3. Atmospheric Chemistry (http://atchem.atmos.iao.ru)

4. Atmospheric Radiation (http://atrad.atmos.iao.ru)

5. Atmospheric Dynamics (http://climate.atmos.iao.ru)

6. Solar-Terrestrial Relations (http://solter.atmos.iao.ru)

Physics and chemistry of the atmosphere

Thematic web sites

1. Air Quality Assessment and Management (http://www.ess.co.at/AIR-EIA)

2. Lake Baikal3. West Siberia

Lowland

Atmosphere and Environmental Impact Assessment

Basic site " Atmosphere and Environmental Impact Assessment "

AIR-EIA: air pollution and environmental impact assessment: the multimedia information source

• AIR-EIA is designed to provide improved access to state-of-the-art multimedia

information resources on Air Pollution aspects of Environmental Impact

Assessment. The objective is to exploit, and integrate, multimedia contents and

services including, dynamic, interactive on-line information resources.

• Air Quality Assessment and Management: a multi-media information resource

available on the web on atmosphere and environment

(http://www.ess.co.at/AIR-EIA) being currently developed by ESS with partners

as a project of INFO 2000 Programme (AIR-EIA); this builds on results of on-line

distance learning projects MUTATE, as well as a most recent IST project in the

domain of technical training and environmental information and simulation

projects such as GAIA and ECOSIM.

Basic site "Lake Baikal"

NOAA 1610.04.2002 - 06:25

GMT

Vegetation cover near Baikal

The site contains the first results of scientific assessment of the environmental and climatic situation in two regions important for climatic variations under natural and anthropogenic pressure, increase of environmental concern of local population via environmental education on the base of their own particular situations presented at regional GIS.

Winter. Lake Baikal

Basic site “West Siberian Lowland"

Large Vasugan Wetland represents largest on scales in Western Siberia and on a planet a natural complex (about 53,000 кm2 in Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk regions). According to the sizes of this complex unique other parameters Great Vasugan Wetland are also: age - 6-10 thousand years, stocks of water — 400 кm3.

Date Biogenic production of CH4

25.06.2000 1,02 0,61

5-6.07.2000 0,85 0,47

13.07.2000 2,23 3,14

20.07.2000 0,94 1,22

19-20.08.2000 1,47 0,63

26.08.2000 0,83 0,77

Average 1,22 1,43 mg/(m2 h)

The GridEnabling Resource Sharing

within Virtual Organizations Ian Foster

Mathematics and Computer Science Division

Argonne National Laboratory

and

Department of Computer Science

The University of Chicago

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~foster

Invited Talk, Research Library Group Annual Conference, Amsterdam, April 22, 2002

Evolution of the Scientific Process

• Pre-electronic– Theorize &/or experiment, alone or in small

teams; publish paper

• Post-electronic– Construct and mine very large databases of

observational or simulation data– Develop computer simulations & analyses– Exchange information quasi-instantaneously

within large, distributed, multidisciplinary teams

The Grid

“Resource sharing & coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations”

Grid Technology

• Virtual Organisations– Sharing & Collaboration

• Security– Single Sign in, delegation

• Distribution & fast FTP– But Various Protocols

• Resource Management– Discovery– Process Creation– Scheduling– Monitoring

• Portability– Ubiquitous APIs & Modules

• Government Agency Buy in

Foster, I., Kesselman, C. and Tuecke, S., The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Virtual Organisations, Intl. J. Supercomputer Applications, 15(3), 2001

a new global infrastructure

• the Grid is an emergent infrastructure to deliver dependable, pervasive and uniform access to globally distributed, dynamic and heterogeneous resources

• problems of scalability, interoperability, fault tolerance, resource management and security

sensor nets

data archives

computers

software

colleagues

instruments

• information on demand - like power from a socket• information on demand - like power from a socket

data, information and knowledge

• virtual data …from the grid– from a database somewhere– computed on request– measured on request

• automated knowledge …from computer science– data: un-interpreted bits and bytes– information: data equipped with meaning– knowledge: information applied to solve a problem

three layer Grid abstractionthree layer Grid abstraction

Information GridInformation Grid

Knowledge GridKnowledge Grid

Computation/Data Grid

Computation/Data Grid

Data to

Knowledge

Data to

Knowledge

ControlControl

DATA / CALCULATIONS level

INFORMATION level

KNOWLEDGE level

Set of tools for the portal sites development (Construction of dialog system, web editor, user’s data integrity, menus, etc.). Internal data format XML and XMLS RDFS in Atmospheric Chemistry and Spectroscopy Table data presentationGraphics (gnuplot, GraDS)

The state of the art

Ontology set for molecular spectroscopy is under development

DATA: Data from different sources on atmospheric reactions, DB Hitran, GEISA, results of observations (Tomsk- aerosol station, Irkutsk- pressure, surface UV, geomagnetic environment, cosmic rays, etc.) Calculations: INM model, radiation block, spectroscopic calculations, aerosols optical characteristics, chemical dynamics (kinetic equations solver).

Portal structure

Atmospheric ChemistryAtmospheric aerosolAtmospheric спектроскопияAtmospheric radiationAtmospheric DynamicsSolar-Terrestrial interrelationsWest Siberia LowlandLake BaikalAir quality assessment and management

ICS MonographICS Monograph ICS ICS Monograph CS Monograph ISISIS Monograph IS

Gelio-Geophysical Measuring Data in Siberia http://solter.atmos.iao.ru

Gelio-Geophysical Measuring Data in Siberia http://solter.atmos.iao.ru

Atmospheric Chemistryhttp://atchem.atmos.iao.ru

Atmospheric Radiationhttp://atrad.atmos.iao.ru

Atmospheric spectroscopy  http://saga.atmos.iao.ru

Integrated Regional Studies

•assess the influence of regional processes on Earth System functioning (and vice-versa)

•be integrative (natural and social sciences, all components of the Earth System, planning to synthesis)

•contribute sound scientific understanding in support of sustainable development in the region

•be scientifically-driven by scientists in the region, but with global collaboration

An IRS must:

Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

•80 research groups - 600 scientists

•How does Amazonia function as a regional entity (e.g., natural cycles of water, energy, aerosols, carbon, nutrient and trace-gases)?

•How will changes in land use and climate affect the biological, chemical and physical functioning of Amazonia, including its sustainability and influence on global climate?

Необходимость ИТ, как общей вычислительно-информационной платформыИТ – инструмент для превращения наук об окружающей среде в точные науки

Interdisciplinary Integration Project of SB RAS

«Siberian Biosphere-Geosphere Programme: Integrated Regional Research of Climate Changes»

Recently the Center initiated a project “Siberian Geosphere – Biosphere Program: integrated regional study of contemporary natural and climatic changes” (SGBP), which has been selected for funding as an Integrated Interdisciplinary Program of SB RAS. In this Project efforts of 14 Institutes of SB RAS and RAS as well as 5 Universities are coherently joined to initiate relevant study of the region.

Main objectives of the project:

To organize the system of multicomponent monitoring of Siberian mesoscale natural-territorial complexes on the biological, chemical, physical and technogenic components of the regional geosphere-biosphere system, and to create the informational basis for structuring, storage and free access to the cumulative and incoming data on observations and measurements.

To prepare basis for multifactor modeling of basic processes of regional natural-territorial complexes development, taking into account the interaction between main components on the basis of climatic model system, and to develop a guidance basis for forecasting of geosphere-biosphere changes in Siberia in the context of the sustainable development of the region.

To investigate interferences of global and regional (Western Siberia, in the first place) climate characteristic changes caused by natural and anthropogenic factors.

To prepare a scientific technological basis and a national scientific body for inclusion of the Programme into large international projects, supported by IGBP.

Partners:

Institute for Optical Monitoring SB RAS, Tomsk Institute of Water and Ecological Problems SB RAS, Hovosibirsk and Barnaul Institute of Petroleum Chemistry SB RAS, Tomsk Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, and its Tomsk Affiliation Tomsk Affiliation of the Institute of Petroleum and Gas Geology SB RAS Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk Institute of Computational Modeling SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk Institute of Catalysis SB RAS NovosibirskInstitute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion SB RAS NovosibirskSiberian Center for Environmental Research and Training TomskInstitute of Numerical Mathematics RAS Altai State University, Barnaul Tomsk State University Tomsk Polytechnic University Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics Yugorsk State University, Khanty-Mansiisk

SGBP web site

General info on Program

Partners Intranet Results and open resources

Program management Shared information resources