Project Overview

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Project Overview
NCAR/LANL CCSM
Climate
GFDL FMS Suite
Data Assimilation
NASA GMAO Analysis
GMAO Seasonal Forecast
MITgcm
Weather

Mark Iredell 3rd ESMF Community Meeting
NCEP Forecast
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Motivation for ESMF
In climate research and NWP... increased
emphasis on detailed representation of individual
physical processes requires many teams of
specialists to contribute components to an
overall modeling system In computing
technology... increase in hardware and software
complexity in high-performance computing, shift
toward the use of scalable computing
architectures In software development of
frameworks, such as the GFDL Flexible Modeling
System (FMS) and Goddard Earth Modeling System
(GEMS) that encourage software reuse and
interoperability The ESMF is a focused community
effort to tame the complexity of models and the
computing environment. It leverages, unifies and
extends existing software frameworks, creating
new opportunities for scientific contribution and
collaboration.
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ESMF Project Description

• GOALS To increase software reuse,
  interoperability, ease of use and performance
  portability in climate, weather, and data
  assimilation applications
• PRODUCTS
• Core framework Software for coupling
  geophysical components and utilities for building
  components
• Applications Deployment of the ESMF in 15 of
  the nations leading climate and weather models,
  assembly of 8 new science-motivated applications
• METRICS
• RESOURCES and TIMELINE 9.8M over 3 years,
  starting February 2002

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Collaborators and Partners

• NSF NCAR
• NOAA GFDL and NCEP
• NASA GMAO, GISS, Goddard Land Information Systems
  project
• DOE LANL and ANL
• COLA
• DOD NRL, AFWA
• UCLA
• University of Michigan
• Princeton University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Modeling Applications
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Data Assimilation Applications
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Todays Agenda
900am Project overview (Iredell-NCEP) 915am What
is ESMF and what does it mean to adopt it?
(DeLuca-NCAR) 1000am ESMF field tests
(Hill-MIT) 1030am Break 1045am Project status
and website tour (DeLuca-NCAR) 1130am Lunch 100p
m Tutorial on using the ESMF (Hill-MIT/Trayanov-G
SFC) 300pm Break 315pm Future plans and
directions (Balaji-GFDL) 345pm Open discussion