TERN's e-MAST Director Brad Evans's presentation on e_MAST's framework at EcoTas13 in November 2013.

1. Towards a framework for sharing an
open set of data and tools for
ecosystem modellers
Brad Evans, Ben Evans and Colin Prentice

3. eMAST : Data assimilation

4. eMAST’s objectives 2013-2015
DELIVER research data infrastructure to
integrate TERN (and other) data streams on the
National Computing Infrastructure
ENABLE data assimilation, model evaluation and
accreditation and ecosystem model optimization
DRIVE advances in ecosystem science, impact
assessment and land management

5. Driving science questions
CARBON: How much CO2 is exchanged? How
much carbon can be stored and where?
WATER: What drives water use by ecosystems,
and runoff in rivers?
CLIMATE CHANGE: How does it change the
rules?
LAND MANAGEMENT: What will work, in a
changing climate?

6. More driving science questions
FIRE: What are the risks? How can they be
mitigated?
CLIMATE FEEDBACKS: How will ecosystem
changes influence the exchanges of carbon,
water and energy with the atmosphere?
BIODIVERSITY: What species are threatened?
Where are likely refugia? Is there a tipping
point?

7. What eMAST is delivering
High-resolution data products: climate, canopy
conductance, water use, primary production
Tools for interpolation, downscaling, upscaling,
hindcasting, forecasting
A state-of-the-art data assimilation system for
ecosystem model optimization
Software for model evaluation (based on PALS)
Top-level ecosystem drivers and targets for
models

8. How we share data and tools
National Computing Infrastructure
World Wide Web
eMAST NCI &
Intersect Tools
ANUClimate
eMAST Tools
MODELS
Public Domain
tern.org.au
/eMAST
/eMAST-data
eMAST
PORTAL
World Wide Web
eMAST
eMAST
Intersect
RDSI
OpeNDaP
THREDDS
Service
SYDNEY
NCI
RDSI
OpeNDaP
THREDDS
Service
CANBERRA
eMAST
GEONETWORK
NecTAR/
NCI
Research Data
Australia

9. TERN Data Discovery Portal

10. http://www.tern.org.au/e-MAST-Data-Products-pg26355.html

12. ANUClimate
A NEW approach to interpolating our national network
0.01 degree climate surfaces
Who? Professor Mike Hutchinson (ANU)

13. Climate data sets (1 km)
Tmin
Tmax
vp
P
daily
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1970-2011
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monthly
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1970-2011
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mean
monthly
pan
evap.
wet
days
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solar
rad.
wind
speed
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14. ANUClimate
When? Delivery timeline…
Complete set of Climate and
Bioclimatic data available on
RDSI
RDSI opendap netCDF CF
& Metadata store complete
= public release
Data starts propagating
to RDSI*
ADVANCED USER ACCESS
DOI’s NOT YET AVAILABLE = NO PUBLISH
30 Nov 2013
24 Dec 2013
31 Jan 2013
*Currently experiencing delays in RDSI allocation – delays in the Raijin cloud roll out etc…

15. Bioclimate data sets (1 km T, P and R)

16. http://episat-software.blogspot.com.au/

17. OzFlux

18. ePiSaT : Partitioning evaluation

19. Model data evaluation
from Gab Abramowitz (UNSW)

20. Plant trait surfaces
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Leaf nitrogen
Leaf phosphorus
Specific leaf area
Leaf area
Maximum plant height
Photosynthesis per leaf
area
Photosynthesis per leaf
dry mass
Leaf stomatal
conductance
Dr. Rhys Whitley

21. Plant trait surfaces

22. NEON & TERN

23. Summary: Data-model fusion tools
Data assimilation collaboration with NEON and NCAR, CSIRO,
Macquarie University and the Australian National University
- ACEAS workshop on data assimilation early 2014
eMAST : An R-Package ‘emast’ for the computation and visualization of
bioclimatic indices
ePiSaT : Collaboration with OzFlux and AusCover to model Gross
Primary Production across the landscape, another R-Package ‘ePiSaT’
-ACEAS worskshop on SPEDDEXES
Protocol for the Analysis of Land Surface Models (PALS) for evaluation
of data and models

24. The future of eMAST
Continue delivery of our key datasets through
the RDSI, Data Discovery, Visualization &
Exploitation… consolidation of our tools and
porting them to Raijin.