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Cyberinfrastructure and Collaboratory Support for the Integration of Arctic Atmospheric Research
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2016
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Source: Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (2016) 97 (6): 917–922
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Journal Title:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Description:The urgent research questions posed by global environmental change test more than the minds of scientists, but also the vitality of cyberinfrastructure and collaboration support required to advance research integration. Research integration refers to efforts that involve researchers from different scientific fields (e.g., atmospheric science, terrestrial ecology, social science) and research approaches (e.g., in situ observations, modeling, physical process studies) combining their work in value-added ways (Averyt 2010). Advancing critical research integration across institutions and projects demands innovative approaches that effectively leverage partner resources. Cyberinfrastructure encompasses technological solutions to enabling research integration, such as sharing data and computing resources across institutions, while collaboratories, which can take on a variety of forms (Bos et al. 2007), are an essential and often overlooked infrastructure for interpersonal collaboration. A collaboratory for research integration serves to network independently funded experts and provide them with the resources they need to work toward collaborative objectives, without regard to their physical location. For the International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA, see the article by Uttal et al. in this issue), an international consortium of 10 independently funded atmospheric observatories encircling the Arctic, the vision to integrate long-term, distributed atmospheric observations into the complex picture of Arctic change was hindered by both incompatible data management infrastructures and a lack of collaboration infrastructure. This article presents the IASOA response to these obstacles: a new data portal for unified discovery of and access to long-term, in situ Arctic observations (www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/iasoa/dataataglance), and the facilitation of open, international scientific collaboratories (www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/iasoa/science) that tackle pan-Arctic atmospheric research challenges.
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Source:Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (2016) 97 (6): 917–922
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