Synthesis of the iAOS cloud infrastructure

This document defines the synthesis of the iAOS cloud infrastructure evolutions, in terms of return of experience and challenges, related to: deploying and operating dedicated Cloud Platform infrastructure services, integrating data repositories and data processing services based on these Cloud Platform infrastructure services, and defining user-oriented applications powered by all these iAOS resources.
As a result, the iAOS cloud platform offers services to access observations and derived parameters, including new observations from WP2-3-4. In addition, it offers seamless integration with geo-statistical methods for interpolation of spatiotemporal datasets, and services to store the generated datasets in iAOS enabled repositories.
We therefore present in this report our findings on the iAOS cloud platform objectives to integrate multidisciplinary and distributed data repositories and to provide a set of tools for data analysis, transformation, and visualization. Selected applications established in WP6 have used the services and tools provided by the platform and have showcased the usefulness and functionality of the platform, as part of the benefit of enhanced integration of data from Arctic observing systems.