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Influence and leadership
One of the by-products of the NERC DataGrid has been the influence on the software architectures deployed within the Met Office and elsewhere in the atmospheric and oceanographic community.
The NERC DataGrid architecture is heavily based on the geospatial data access standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and, while these standards had existed prior to the NERC DataGrid, they had been largely ignored by the atmospheric and oceanographic community. This is because the standards were not developed with four-dimensional environmental data in mind.
The NERC DataGrid project analysed the issues, proposed changes to the relevant standards, and introduced a data modelling philosophy into the community.
There is now wide acceptance within the Met Office that OGC techniques are the most effective way to develop and deploy new meteorological products.
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