AN INTEGRATED E-SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Current developments for an e-Science Environment for Environmental Science, integrating data discovery and retrieval, computation and visualisation will be presented. The paper will focus on three developments of the CLRC e-Science Centre: the Dataportal, the HPCPortal and the VisualisationPortal. The Dataportal technology is to be used e.g. for all (Central Laboratory of the Research Councils of the UK) CLRC departments, the Natural Environmental Research Council DataGrid and Environment from the Molecular level project. The HPCPortal will provide access to code libraries and compute resources on the UK Science Grid. The VisualisationPortal finally is to be used e.g. by the projects mentioned above and the GODIVA project to provide access to suitable visualisation tools. It is our aim to provide easy access and support for the usage of data, substantial computing and visualisation resources across Europe by using Grid technologies like grid services and Globus, via user configurable web access points (personal workbenches).