Applied Tasks in Virtual Research Environment based on a web GIS platform "Climate+".

TLDR: There are several first-type tasks and the second-type task about changing the depth of the active soil layer in the northern regions of Western and Eastern Siberia for a period of 60 years and the structure of a typical ontology individual used for the decision making are presented.

Abstract: Two types of applied tasks used in the thematic virtual research environment (VRE) based on the “Climate+” platform are considered. Tasks of both types use significant amount of climatic or meteorological data. The first type of applied tasks whose solutions describe quantitatively climate of chosen territory are on-line computed and mapped using GIS technologies. The second type of applied tasks includes tasks used for decision making. Those along with the computational component, includes tools for expert selection of the initial conditions for these tasks, tools for determining the semantic homogeneity of physical quantities used in the calculations, and software for forming the A-box of the knowledge base of a decision support system (DSS). Presented are several first-type tasks and the second-type task about changing the depth of the active soil layer in the northern regions of Western and Eastern Siberia (the interfluve of the Ob and Yenisei rivers) for a period of 60 years. The solution of this task and the structure of a typical ontology individual used for the decision making are presented. The role of the ontology description of solutions of applied tasks in the VRE based on the “Climate+” platform is discussed.