The GMOS cyber(e)-infrastructure: advanced services for supporting science and policy
- 20 November 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Vol. 21 (6), 4193-4208
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-2308-3
Abstract
The need for coordinated, systematized and catalogued databases on mercury in the environment is of paramount importance as improved information can help the assessment of the effectiveness of measures established to phase out and ban mercury. Long-term monitoring sites have been established in a number of regions and countries for the measurement of mercury in ambient air and wet deposition. Long term measurements of mercury concentration in biota also produced a huge amount of information, but such initiatives are far from being within a global, systematic and interoperable approach. To address these weaknesses the on-going Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS) project (www.gmos.eu) established a coordinated global observation system for mercury as well it retrieved historical data (www.gmos.eu/sdi). To manage such large amount of information a technological infrastructure was planned. This high-performance back-end resource associated with sophisticated client applications enables data storage, computing services, telecommunications networks and all services necessary to support the activity. This paper reports the architecture definition of the GMOS Cyber(e)-Infrastructure and the services developed to support science and policy, including the United Nation Environmental Program. It finally describes new possibilities in data analysis and data management through client applications.Keywords
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