Workflow design and execution using myLEAD Personal Workspace:
Synergistic tools for next generation weather research and education
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) is a NSF funded large-scale initiative to bring advances in cyber-infrastructure tools and techniques to the meteorology community with the goal of enabling more accurate and timely forecasts through on-demand execution of forecast models, and of advancing access by high school and undergraduate students to the products and tools of the mesoscale research community.
Two key tools at the core of the cyberinfrastructure are the workflow design and execution tool, and the user's personal workspace (i.e., "myLEAD" The workflow tool enables experts and non-experts alike to run complex data —> model —> analysis —> viz workflows using any of the resources available to the community. The user workspace provides a private space for a user to store model results and a host of other information related to the user's investigations. Access to both private and community data and experiment products are accessible through a visual query interface. A unique benefit for users of the workflow and myLEAD tools is the functionality enabled by the synergistic interaction between the two tools. Workflow and myLEAD cooperate to provide automatic organization of the user's space, provenance collection, and performance information recording. These tools together promise significant enhancements in the quality of the experience for experts and novice alike in working with the products of computational mesoscale meteorology research.
For more information on the myLEAD workflow tool, see: https://lead.extreme.indiana.edu:8443/gridsphere/gridsphere