Climate Informatics: Some use cases and future directions for an emerging domain

X-Informatics is a discipline agnostic framework that offers a way to combine theoretical principles from the information, data, and computer sciences with techniques traditionally found in software engineering and systems development.

Climate informatics - which sits at the intersection of earth science disciplines (e.g. atmospheric, geologic, oceanographic, etc), computer science, and information science- is emerging as one of the most salient examples of using the x-informatics approach to address a grand science challenge.

This session will offer a number of use cases that are representative of a climate informatics approach, and more generally engage in a discussion about the contribution that ESIP might make to the emerging climate informatics domain.

Relevant works

- What is Climate Informatics? Easterbrook :http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2012/09/what-is-climate-informatics/

- The rise of informatics as a research domain. Fox :http://tw.rpi.edu/web/doc/WIRADA2011_Fox_Peter_Paper.doc

- Climate Informatics: Human Experts and the End-to-End System.Rood and Edwards: http://www.earthzine.org/2014/05/22/climate-informatics-human-experts-and-the-end-to-end-system/

- Climate Informatics Introduction: Monteleoni et al. :http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~tingyu/BookCIDASD/FullChapters/Climate%20Informatics%20Chapter.docx