ИСТИНА

Volumes of environmental data archives are growing immensely due to recent models, high performance computers and sensors development as well as due to initiation of a set of large scale complex global and regional climatic studies. It makes impossible their comprehensive analysis in conventional manner on workplace using in house computing facilities, data storage and processing software at hands. One of possible answers to this challenge is creation of virtual research environment (VRE), which should provide a researcher with an integrated access to huge data resources, tools and services across disciplines and user communities and enable researchers to process structured and qualitative data in virtual workspaces. VRE should integrate data, network and computing resources providing interdisciplinary climatic research community with opportunity to get profound understanding of ongoing and possible future climatic changes and their consequences. Presented are first steps and plans for development of virtual research environment prototype as an element of future environmental VRE aimed at regional climatic and ecological monitoring and modeling as well as at continuous education and training support.