Geospatial meteorological and climatic data services application programming interface

Abstract

At present, it becomes necessary to develop software for Earth science data repositories instead of downloading data to computational servers and workstations. This is especially important taking into account the upcoming volume of big environmental datasets. WPS (Web Processing Service) is an OGC standard for distributed geospatial data processing services. The WPS services provide access to geospatial data processing packages including statistical processing software tools. The main goal of this paper is to present an approach that provides a unified access to the web processing services developed for climate and meteorological research based on the latest technological and scientific achievements. Based on the "OGC API-Processes"standard, a Web API Climate is proposed to provide a uniform access to the "Climate"platform (http://climate.scert.ru/climate/environment/v3.0a-demo/) geospatial services. The Climate Web API provides a software basis for an advanced development and use of the "Climate"platform web processing services aiming at climate change studies at regional and global levels. A correct implementation of the specification will form a solid foundation for further development of desktop client applications in the form of GIS plugins, as well as universal Web-GIS clients easily embedded into thematic virtual research environments.