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| Title | Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology Study |
| Grant Agreement Number | 246703 |
| Funding Programmes | FP7 |
| Dates | 30/10/2009 - 30/04/2011 |
| Project URL | http://www.drihms.eu |
| Scientific Domain |
e-Infrastructures |
| Action Line | ICT-based e-Infrastructures |
| Type Of Project | CSA |
| Abstract | In the Lisbon strategy, the 2005 European Council identified knowledge and innovation as the engines of sustainable growth and stated that it is essential to build a fully inclusive information society. In parallel, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (Hyogo, 2005), defined among its thematic priorities the improvement of international cooperation in hydrometeorology research activities. Hydro-meteorological science has made strong progress over the last decade at the European and worldwide level: new modeling tools, post processing methodologies and observational data are available. In principle, a huge amount of hydro-meteorological data and information is available for the European region, but enormous scientific and technical obstacles have to be overcome when mining the data. Recent European efforts in developing a platform for e-science, like EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science), SEE-GRID-SCI (South East Europe -GRID e-Infrastructure for regional e-Science), and the German C3-Grid, provide an ideal basis for the sharing of complex hydro-meteorological data sets and tools. Despite these early initiatives, however, the awareness of the potential of the Grid technology as a catalyst for future hydro-meteorological research is still low and both the adoption and the exploitation have astonishingly been slow, not only within individual EC member states, but also on a European scale. With this background in mind, the goal of the Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology Study (DRIHMS) project is the promotion of the Grid culture within the European hydro-meteorological research community through the diffusion of a Grid platform for e-collaboration in this earth science sector: the idea is to further boost European research excellence and competitiveness in the fields of hydro-meteorological research and Grid research by bridging the gaps between these two scientific communities. |
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Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country) |
CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE IN MONITORAGGIO AMBIENTALE - FONDAZIONE CIMA, Italy |
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Partners
(Organisation name and Country) |
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN, Germany DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV, Germany |
