Abstract

78 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM| JANUARY 2019| VOL. 62| NO. 1 review articles locations, the problems under consideration cover spatially vast regions of the planet. Moreover, scientists have been collecting data at different times in different places and reporting results in separate repositories and often unconnected publications. This has resulted in a poorly connected collection of information that makes wide-area analyses extremely difficult and is impossible to reproduce. Earth systems are integrated, but current geoscience data and models are not. To unravel significant questions about topics, such as Deep Earth Time, geoscientists need intelligent systems to efficiently integrate data from disparate locations, data types, and collection efforts within a wide area.
˲ Predict critical atmosphere and geospace events: Atmospheric and geospace science research aims to improve understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and its interdependencies with all of the other Earth components, and to understand the important physical dynamics, relationships, and coupling between the incident solar wind stream, and the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere of the Earth. Atmospheric research investigates phenomena operating from planetary to micro spatial scales and from millennia to microseconds. Although the data collected is very large, it is miniscule given the complexity of the phenomena under study. Therefore, the data available must be augmented with knowledge about physical laws underlying the phenomena in order to generate effective models.˲ Detect ocean-land-atmosphere-ice interactions: Our ability to understand the …

Date

2019

Authors

JOHN HOREL, LESLIE HSU, JIM KINTER, CRAIG KNOBLOCK, DAVID KRUM, VIPIN KUMAR, PIERRE LERMUSIAUX, YAN LIU, CHRIS NORTH, VICTOR PANKRATIUS, SHANAN PETERS, BETH PLALE, ALLEN POPE, SAI RAVELA, JUAN RESTREPO, AARON RIDLEY, HANAN SAMET, SHASHI SHEKHAR

Journal

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Volume

62

Issue

1