Environmental modelling practitioners are now seeking to move forwards together and build standards and technologies with more universal applicability and integration. With so many overlapping environmental modelling technologies and infrastructures being offered and with so many relevant supporting technologies contributing on the periphery, there is considerable scope to articulate and utilise underlying concepts which draw them together. As such, this paper offers the Spatio-temporal Modelling Taxonomy, a simple taxonomy for describing the spatio-temporal structure of environmental numerical modelling data used as input to, or produced as output from environmental numerical models. The taxonomy is motivated from common spatial structures, a set of feature-types to describe observed environmental data and the implementation of the OpenMI integrated modelling standard. It serves as a natural evolution of terminology that is in common use in environmental numerical modelling and is designed to strike the right balance between complexity and utility. It implements a structured, theoretical framework, whilst being essentially practical in nature to apply to the ‘real world’ facing numerical modellers and those seeking to integrate environmental numerical models and the data supporting them.

环境建模从业人员现在正在寻求共同前进，并建立具有更普遍适用性和集成性的标准和技术。由于提供了这么多重叠的环境建模技术和基础架构，并且外围还提供了许多相关的支持技术，因此有很大的空间来阐明和利用将它们组合在一起的基本概念。因此，本文提供了时空建模分类法，这是一种简单的分类法，用于描述环境数值建模数据的时空结构，这些数据用作环境数值模型的输入或输出。分类法是基于常见的空间结构，一组用于描述观察到的环境数据和OpenMI集成建模标准的实现的特征类型。它是环境数值建模中常用的术语的自然演变，旨在在复杂性和实用性之间取得适当的平衡。它实施了结构化的理论框架，同时本质上具有实用性，可应用于面向“现实世界”的数值建模者以及那些寻求整合环境数值模型和支持它们的数据的人。