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X. Yang, D. Wallom, S. Waddington, J. Wang, A. Shaon, B. Matthews, M. Wilson, Y. Guo, L. Guo, J.D. Blower, A.V. Vasilakos, K. Liu and P. Kershaw, Cloud computing in e-Science: research challenges and opportunities, Journal of Supercomputing, August 2014. [paper]
J.D. Blower, A.L. Gemmell, G.H. Griffiths, K. Haines, A. Santokhee and X. Yang, A Web Map Service implementation for the visualization of multidimensional gridded environmental data, Environmental Modelling and Software, 47, 218-224, September 2013. [paper]
X. Yang, J.D. Blower, L. Bastin, V. Lush, A. Zabala, J. Maso, D. Cornford and P. Diaz and J. Lumsden, An Integrated View of Data Quality in Earth Observation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 371 (1983), 2012. 20120072. ISSN 1364-503X [paper]
Matteo Turilli, David Wallom, Chris Williams, Steve Gough, Neal Curran, Richard Tarrant, Dan Bretherton, Andy Powell, Matt Johnson, Terry Harmer and Peter Wright and John Gordon, Flexible services for the support of research, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 371 (1983), 2012. 20120067. ISSN 1364-503X [paper]
J.D. Blower and A. Clegg, Fast Regridding of Large, Complex Geospatial Datasets, presented at Com.Geo 2011 and published in ACM conference proceedings [paper]
Fiore, S., Aloisio, G., Fox, P., Petitdidier, M., Schwichtenberg, H., Denvil, S., Blower, J. D. and Cofino and A., The Climate-G testbed: towards large scale distributed data management for climate change, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011 in: Procedia Computer Science, 4. pp. 567-576, 2011 [paper]
A. L. Gemmell, R. M. Barciela, J. D. Blower, K. Haines, Q. Harpham, K. Millard, M. R. Price and A. Saulter, An ECOOP web portal for visualising and comparing distributed coastal oceanography model and in situ data, Ocean Sci., 7, 445-454, doi:10.5194/os-7-445-2011, 2011. [paper]
Blower, J. D., Hankin, S.C., Keeley, R., Pouliquen, S., de la Beaujardiere, J., Vanden Berghe, E., Reed, G., Blanc, F., Gregg, M.C., Fredericks, J. and Snowden and D., Ocean data dissemination: new challenges for data integration, In: Hall, J., Harrison, D. E. and Stammer, D. (eds.) Proceedings of OceanObs '09: sustained ocean observations and information for society. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. ESA. (ESA Publication WPP-306) [paper]
Pouliquen, S., Hankin, S., Keeley, R., Blower, J. D., Donlon, C., Kozyr, A. and Guralnick and R., The development of the data system and growth in data sharing, In: Hall, J., Harrison, D. E. and Stammer, D. (eds.) Proceedings of OceanObs '09: sustained ocean observations and information for society. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. ESA. (ESA Publication WPP-306) [paper]
Hankin, S., Bermudez, L., Blower, J. D., Blumenthal, B., Casey, K. S., Fornwall, M., Graybeal, J., Guralnick, R. P., Habermann, T., Howlett, E., Keeley, B., Mendelssohn, R., Schlitzer, R., Signell, R., Snowden, D. and Woolf and A., Data management for the ocean sciences - perspectives for the next decade, In: Hall, J., Harrison, D. E. and Stammer, D. (eds.) Proceedings of OceanObs '09: sustained ocean observations and information for society. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. ESA. doi: (ESA Publication WPP-306) [paper]
Gosling S.N., Bretherton D., Haines K. and Arnell N.W., Global hydrology modelling and uncertainty: running multiple ensembles with a campus grid, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A September 13, 2010 368:4005-4021; doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.016.[paper]
J.D. Blower, GIS in the cloud: implementing a Web Map Service on Google App Engine, presented at Com.Geo 2010 and published in conference proceedingsby ACM.[paper]
J.D. Blower, F. Blanc, R. Clancy, P. Cornillon, C. Donlon, P. Hacker, K. Haines, S.C. Hankin, T. Loubrieu, S. Pouliquen, M. Price, T. Pugh and A. Srinivasan, Serving GODAE data and products to the ocean community, Oceanography 22(3) September 2009, pp. 70-79
A.L. Gemmell, G.C. Smith, K. Haines and J.D. Blower, Validation of ocean model syntheses against hydrography using a new web application, Journal of Operational Oceanography 2(2) August 2009 pp. 29-41
Jason Holt, James Harle, Roger Proctor, Sylvain Michel, Mike Ashworth, Crispian Batstone, Icarus Allen, Robert Holmes, Tim Smyth, Keith Haines, Dan Bretherton and Gregory Smith, Modelling the global coastal ocean, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A367, 939-51, 2009[paper]
Keith Haines, Leon Hermanson, Chunlei Liu, Debbie Putt, Rowan Sutton, Alan Iwi and Doug Smith, Decadal climate prediction (project GCEP), Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A367, 925-37, 2009[paper]
Dan Bretherton, Jon Blower, Keith Haines and Greg Smith, Running Climate Models on Grids using G-Rex, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A367, 847-53, 2009[paper]
Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Adit Santokhee and Chunlei Liu, Godiva2: Interactive visualization of environmental data on the web, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A367, 1035-9, 2009[paper]
M. Atkinson, D. Britton, P. Coveney, D. De Roure, N. Garnett, N. Geddes, R. Gurney, K. Haines, L. Hughes, D. Ingram, P. Jeffreys, L. Lyon, I. Osborne, R. Perrott, R. Procter, C. Rusbridge, A. Trefethen and P. Watson, Century-of-Information Research (CIR): A Strategy for Research and Innovation in theCentury of Information, doi:10.1080/08109020802657479
Jon Blower, Frederique Blanc, Peter Cornillon, Steve Hankin and Thomas Loubrieu, Underpinning technologies for oceanographic data sharing, visualization and analysis: Review and future outlook, GODAE Final SymposiumNice, 2008
Alastair Gemmell, Greg Smith, Keith Haines and Jon Blower, Evaluation of water masses in ocean synthesis products, CLIVAR Exchanges 47 pp. 7-92, 2008 [Download PDF of this issue]
Keith Haines, Jon Blower, Chunlei Liu and Adit Santokhee, Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet, Journal of Operational Oceanography 1(2) pp. 35-39, 2008
Lizzie Froude, Storm tracking with remote data and distributed computing, Computers and Geosciences, 34(11) pp. 1621-1630, 2008 doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2007.11.004
Bryan Lawrence, Philip Kershaw and Jon Blower, Practical access control using NDG security, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 10-13 September 2007pp 262-269, ISBN 978-0-9553988-3-4
Jon Blower, Alastair Gemmell, Keith Haines, Peter Kirsch, Nathan Cunningham, Andrew Fleming and Roy Lowry, Sharing and visualizing environmental data using Virtual Globes, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting10-13 September 2007, pp 102-109, ISBN 978-0-9553988-3-4
Gregory C. Smith, Keith Haines, Dan Lea, Jon Blower, Alastair Gemmell and Ben McDonald, Reconstructing global ocean variability using a physically-based data assimilation method, Proceedings of the Royal Meteorological Society Conference3-6 September 2007[abstract] (Enabled by OceanDIVA software)
Jon Blower, Andrew Harrison and Keith Haines (2006), Styx Grid Services: Lightweight middlewarefor efficient scientific workflows, Scientific Programming, 14, pp. 209-216 [paper]
Jon Blower and Keith Haines, Building simple, easy-to-use Grids with Styx Grid Servicesand SSH, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 18-21 September 2006
L. Bengtsson, K. I. Hodges and E. Roeckner (2006), Storm Tracks and Climate Change, Journal of Climate 19pp. 3518-3543.(Enabled by Reading Campus Grid)
Keith Haines, Jon Blower, Chunlei Liu and Adit Santokhee, Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet, Proceedings of the IMarEst World Maritime Technology Conference 6-10 March 2006
Jon Blower, Andrew Harrison and Keith Haines, Styx Grid Services: Lightweight, easy-to-usemiddleware for scientific workflows, International Conference on Computer Science 2006, and Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3993 996-1003 (2006).DOI: 10.1007/11758532_135
Jon Blower, Keith Haines and Ed Llewellin, Data streaming, workflow and firewall-friendly Grid Services with Styx, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 19-22 September 2005
A. Santokhee, C.L. Liu, J.D. Blower, K. Haines, I. Barrodale and E. Davies, Managing and serving large volumes of gridded spatial environmental data, Proceedings of the 11th EC GI & GIS Workshop, ESDI: Setting the framework 29 June-1st July 2005
Jon Blower, Keith Haines and Adit Santokhee, Composing workflows in the environmental sciences using Inferno, Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 1-3 September 2004
Jon Blower, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Andrew Woolf, Kecheng Liu, Adityarajsingh Santokhee and Ying Zhao, GADS: Using Web Services to access large data sets, Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2-4 September 2003
Woolf, A., Haines, K, Liu and C, A Web Service Model for Climate Data Access on the Grid, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 17(3) 281-295 (2003)
Books
J.D. Blower, K. Haines and A.L. Gemmell, The World at One's Fingertips: Interactive Interpretation of Environmental Data, In: Atkinson, M., Baxter, R., Brezany, P., Corcho, O., Galea, M., van Hemert, J., Parsons, M. and Snelling, D. (eds.) The DATA Bonanza: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. ISBN 9781118398647 (2013)