Engineering the Software for Understanding Climate Change

2009146 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Steve Easterbrook · University of Toronto

Abstract

Climate scientists build large, complex simulations with little or no software engineering training—and don't readily adopt the latest software engineering tools and techniques. This ethnographic study of climate scientists shows that their culture and practices share many features of agile and open source projects, but with highly customized software validation and verification techniques.

Topics & Keywords

Scientific Computing and Data Management Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Climate action

Publication Details

Published in: Computing in Science & Engineering

Volume 11, Issue 6, pp. 65-74

DOI: 10.1109/mcse.2009.193

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