Integrating and mining distributed environmental archives on Grids

The solar‐terrestrial physics distributed database for the ICSU World Data Centers, and the NCEP/NCAR climate re‐analysis data have been integrated into standard Grid environments using the OGSA‐DAI framework. A set of algorithms and software tools for distributed querying and mining environmental archives using the UNIDATA Common Data Model concepts has been developed. In addition, the toolkit enables querying the data using meaningful ‘human linguistic’ terms. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.