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Hassell, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-7502, Gregory, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-8644, Blower, J., Lawrence, B. N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-7860 and Taylor, K. E. (2017) A data model of the Climate and Forecast metadata conventions (CF-1.6) with a software implementation (cf-python v2.1). Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (12). pp. 4619-4646. ISSN 1991-9603 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4619-2017

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Gemmell, A. L., Barciela, R. M., Blower, J. D., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Harpham, Q., Millard, K., Price, M. R. and Saulter, A. (2011) An ECOOP web portal for visualising and comparing distributed coastal oceanography model and in situ data. Ocean Science, 7. pp. 445-454. ISSN 1812-0792 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-7-445-2011

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Gemmell, A., Smith, G., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 and Blower, J. D. (2009) Validation of ocean model syntheses against hydrography using a new web application. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 2 (2). pp. 29-41. ISSN 1755-8778

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Bretherton, D. A., Blower, J. D., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 and Smith, G.C. (2009) Running climate models on grids using G-Rex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1890 ). 847 -853. ISSN 1364-503X doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0179

Gemmell, A.L., Smith, G.C., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 and Blower, J.D. (2008) Evaluation of water masses in ocean synthesis products. CLIVAR-Exchanges, 13 (47). pp. 7-9.

Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Blower, J.D., Liu, C.L. and Santokhee, A. (2008) Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 1 (2). pp. 35-39. ISSN 1755-8778

Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Blower, J., Liu, C. and Santokhee, A. (2007) Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet. IMarEst Proceedings (March 2006).

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Blower, J.D., Harrison, A. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2006) Styx Grid Services: lightweight, easy-to-use middleware for scientific workflows. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3993. pp. 996-1003. ISSN 0302-9743 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/11758532_135

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Jones, M., Blower, J., Lawrence, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-7860 and Osprey, A. (2016) Investigating read performance of Python and NetCDF when using HPC parallel filesystems. In: Taufer, M., Mohr, B. and Kunkel, J. M. (eds.) High Performance Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9945. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 153-168. ISBN 9783319460789 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6_12

Blower, J., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 and Gemmell, A. (2013) The world at one's fingertips: interactive interpretation of environmental data. In: Atkinson, M., Baxter, R., Brezany, P., Corcho, O., Galea, M., van Hemert, J., Parsons, M. and Snelling, D. (eds.) The DATA bonanza: improving knowledge discovery for science, engineering and business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, pp. 395-416. ISBN 9781118398647 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118540343.ch19

Hankin, S., Bermudez, L., Blower, J. D., Blumenthal, B., Casey, K. S., Fornwall, M., Graybeal, J., Guralnick, R. P., Habermann, T., Howlett, E., Keeley, B., Mendelssohn, R., Schlitzer, R., Signell, R., Snowden, D. and Woolf, A. (2010) Data management for the ocean sciences - perspectives for the next decade. In: Hall, J., Harrison, D. E. and Stammer, D. (eds.) Proceedings of OceanObs’09: sustained ocean observations and information for society. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. ESA. doi: https://doi.org/10.5270/OceanObs09.pp.21 (ESA Publication WPP-306)

Blower, J. D., Hankin, S.C., Keeley, R., Pouliquen, S., de la Beaujardiere, J., Vanden Berghe, E., Reed, G., Blanc, F., Gregg, M.C., Fredericks, J. and Snowden, D. (2010) Ocean data dissemination: new challenges for data integration. In: Hall, J., Harrison, D. E. and Stammer, D. (eds.) Proceedings of OceanObs’09: sustained ocean observations and information for society. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. ESA. doi: https://doi.org/10.5270/OceanObs09.pp.05 (ESA Publication WPP-306)

Pouliquen, S., Hankin, S., Keeley, R., Blower, J. D., Donlon, C., Kozyr, A. and Guralnick, R. (2010) The development of the data system and growth in data sharing. In: Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. and Stammer, D. (eds.) Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. ESA. doi: https://doi.org/10.5270/OceanObs09.pp.30 (ESA Publication WPP-306)

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Blower, J., (2019) Using Open Source software to build networks and create impact in environmental science. Open Research Case Studies. Report. University of Reading

Pain, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1451-9252, Black, D., Blower, J., Grimmond, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-9415, Hunt, A., Milcheva, S., Crawford, B., Dale, N., Doolin, S., Manna, S., Shi, S. and Pugh, R., (2018) Supporting smart urban growth: successful investing in density. Report. Urban Land Institute

Blower, J., Riechert, M. and Roberts, B., (2017) Overview of the CoverageJSON format. Report. World Wide Web Consortium / Open Geospatial Consortium

Dixon, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4513-6337, Barlow, J., Grimmond, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-9415 and Blower, J., (2015) Smart and sustainable: using Big Data to improve peoples' lives in cities. Discussion Paper. University of Reading, Reading. ISSN 2058-9751

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Blower, J. and Riechert, M. (2016) Coverages, JSON-LD and RDF data cubes. In: Workshop on Spatial Data on the Web (SDW 2016), 27-30 Sep 2016, Montreal, Canada.

Clifford, D., Blower, J., Alegre, R., Phipps, R., Bennett, V. and Kershaw, P. (2014) Annotating climate data with commentary: the CHARMe project. In: Big Data from Space (BiDS'14), pp. 251-254.

Griffiths, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6340-3686, Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Blower, J., Lewis, J. and Lin, N. (2014) The Environmental Data Abstraction Library (EDAL): a modular approach to processing and visualising large environmental data. In: 2014 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’14), 12-14 November 2014, Frascati, pp. 97-100.

Blower, J., Clifford, D., Gonçalves, P. and Koubarakis, M. (2014) The MELODIES project: integrating diverse data using Linked Data and cloud computing. In: 2014 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’14), 12-14 November 2014, Frascati, pp. 244-247.

Blower, J. and Clegg, A. (2011) Fast regridding of large, complex geospatial datasets. In: Com.Geo 2011: The 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications, 23-25 May 2011, Washington D.C., pp. 1-6. (10.1145/1999320.1999350)

Blower, J. D. (2010) GIS in the cloud: implementing a web map service on Google App Engine. In: Com.Geo 2010: The 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications, 21-23 June 2010, Washington, D.C., pp. 1-4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/1823854.1823893

Bretherton, D. A., Blower, J. D. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2009) The NERC Cluster Grid. In: Cluster Computing Summer School 2009, 8th - 9th July 2009, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. (Unpublished)

Bretherton, D. A., Blower, J. D. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2008) Running Climate Models On The NERC Cluster Grid Using G-Rex. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008, 8th-11th September 2008, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh.

Bretherton, D. A., Blower, J. D. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2008) Grid Remote Execution (G-Rex) of Climate Models. In: The Environmental e-Science Revolution, 7th-8th April 2008, The Royal Society, London.

Bretherton, D., Blower, J. D. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2008) The NERC Cluster Grid. In: 3rd GRID & e-Collaboration Workshop for the Earth Science Community, 16th-17th January 2008, European Space Agency, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

Lawrence, B. N., Kershaw, P. and Blower, J. (2007) Practical access control using NDG security. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007, 10-13 September 2007, Nottingham, UK, pp. 262-269.

Blower, J. D., Gemmell, A., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Kirsch, P., Cunningham, N., Fleming, A. and Lowry, R. (2007) Sharing and visualizing environmental data using Virtual Globes. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007, 10-13 September 2007, Nottingham, UK, pp. 102-109.

Blower, J.D. and Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 (2006) Building simple, easy-to-use Grids with Styx Grid Services and SSH. In: Proceedings of the IEEE e-Science Conference, Amsterdam, 8pp.

Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Blower, J.D., Liu, C.L. and Santokhee, A. (2006) Delivering NCOF operational marine data through the Internet. In: Proceedings of the IMarEst World Maritime Technology Conference .

Blower, J.D., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 and Llewellyn, E. (2005) Data streaming, workflow and firewall-friendly Grid Services with Styx. In: Proceedings of the UK e-science Meeting, 19th-22nd September, Nottingham.