Zhiyi ZHU, Nanjing Normal University, China
Min CHEN, Nanjing Normal University, China
Yiming ZHANG, Nanjing Normal University, China
Zaiyang MA, Nanjing Normal University, China
Songshan YUE, Nanjing Normal University, China
Reproducibility is an important means to prove the credibility and reliability of scientific researches and thus for geographic research in the era of big data as well. Currently, the reproduction of Geoscience mainly focuses on data availability, code executability, and documentation accessibility. These efforts provide peer scholars an easier way to acquire related resources and improve the repeatability of results. However, confronted with Geoscience, a complex and giant earth's environmental system, there are still challenges that peer scholars have a holistic recognition of this giant system when reproducing it. The geographic simulation is an important way to express the research simulations and experiments by several models which are used to analyze, and characterize the geographic phenomena. As a carrier of geographic simulation, geographic simulation research can be referred as the related experiment meaning the procedures of planning, designing, executing, analyzing. It is obvious that the reproduction of geographic simulation research needs to support these procedures constructed by research contributors. Therefore, this article proposes an approach for reproducing geographic simulation research. In this way, a set of actions are designed to describe and represent geographic simulation procedures via supported online components. When research contributors reproduce processes of geographic simulation research under this approach, solutions to solve theme problem can be easily structured and interpreted, while peer scholars are also convenient to understand pre-and intermediate procedures step by step. Based on these actions, this article applies an example. Based on these actions, this article applies an example implementation for a simulation case, diurnal cycles of precipitation over China, to demonstrate how this approach can trace and reproduce, how the resolution plan is made, and how the work is implemented steadily by researchers.
Mots clés : Reproducibility|Geographic simulation|Simulation procedures
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