Battlespace Environments Institute Overview

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Battlespace Environments InstituteOverview

• Rick Allard
• Oceanography Division
• NRL Stennis

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BEI Overview

• Facilitate the integration of Earth and space
  modeling capabilities into a seamless,
  whole-earth common modeling infrastructure
  allowing the inter-service development of
  multiple, mission-specific environmental
  simulations. (GOAL)
• Support battlefield decisions, improve
  interoperability, reduce operating costs,
  streamline the transition of cutting-edge
  environmental technologies from research into DoD
  operations. (GOAL)
• Use the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) as
  an enabling technology to develop the
  whole-earth system. Bring in DoD as a partner to
  the ESMF. Transition non-DoD ESMF applications
  to DoD. (STRATEGY)
• Foster wider collaborations between DoD, multiple
  government agencies, academia and industry.

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BEI Stakeholders
Convergence to a common modeling infrastructure
will improve interoperability, reduce operating
costs, and most importantly streamline the
transition of cutting-edge technologies from
research into DoD operations. (COL Bensen, AFWA)
The development of a framework to support
internally consistent modeling of the entire
(land-sea-air) battlespace environment is
important to our strategic goal of providing
essential guidance with respect to environmental
factors that impact warfighter decisions. (CAPT
Gunderson, FNMOC)

• Dr. James Houston, ERDC
• Dr. Ed Gough, CNMOC TD
• Dr. Michele Rienecker, NASA GMAO
• Dr. Tim Killeen, Director, NCAR
• Dr. Stephen Lord, Director, NCEP
• Modeling Center
• Dr. John Harding, Acting, NAVO
• Dr. Ants Leetma, Director, GFDL
• COL Bensen, AFWA
• Dr. Phil Jones, Los Alamos
• CAPT Gunderson, FNMOC

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BEI Stakeholders

• DoD Stakeholders Navy (CNMOC, NAVO, FNMOC), Air
  Force (AFWA), Army (ERDC)
• Air Force-AFWA convergence to a common modeling
  infrastructure will improve interoperability,
  reduce operating costs, and streamline transition
  of cutting-edge technologies from research to DoD
  operations.
• Army-ERDC The BEI, designed to support
  battlefield decisions will promote the
  development of common modeling infrastructure and
  advancement of Earth system prediction
  capabilities.
• Navy-CNMOC goalto progress to a full coupling
  of environmental models to predict warfighters
  total battlespace environment-from beneath the
  sea floor to space, and from blue water to
  terrain.
• Wider Community NSF NCAR, NOAA GFDL and NCEP,
  DOE LANL and ANL, NASA JPL and GMAO, universities.

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Institute Management Framework
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Institute Technical Framework

• Technical Teams
• Army (ERDC) Groundwater, riverine
• Air Force (AFWA) Space weather, WRF
• Navy (NRL-SSC) Ocean dynamics (waves, currents,
  ice), coupling
• Navy (NRL-MRY) Atmospheric modeling, enhancements
  and coupling
• NCAR ESMF Core Team, unstructured grids, WRF,
  new capabilities for DoD
• Management
• NRL-SSC Provides Technical, Financial Oversight

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Present (non-ESMF) Capabilities
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Example of NRL East Asian Seas NCOM
ESMF-based applications will help DoD streamline
model transition, maintenance and upgrades.
GLIDER vs EAS
ARGOS vs EAS
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Battlespace Environments Institute Objectives

• To develop a DoD-wide whole-earth environment
  which interoperates with that from other
  agencies
• Migrate core DoD models to ESMF
• Navy (e.g., NCOM, HYCOM, SWAN, COAMPS)
• Air Force (Kinematic Solar Wind and GAIM )
• Army (e.g., ADCIRC, WASH123)
• Development of tools and applications (e.g.,
  extend ESMF to support unstructured grids and
  nesting)
• Coupled applications Air/ocean, air/ocean/ice,
  air/ocean/groundwater, air/space-weather
• Thorough testing, prototyping, documentation of
  all components

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Battlespace Environments Institute NRL MRY
Short-Term Goals
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NRL MRY Long-Term Goals
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BEI NRL MRY Long-Term Goals
Explicit microphysics will allow the prediction
of large convective systems and tropical cyclone
structure and intensity
Two-way air/ocean coupling will enable the
analysis and prediction of high-resolution,
consistent fields in both the atmosphere and ocean
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AFWA Space Weather Goals

• Couple ESMF versions of HAF and GAIM models
  to provide DoD with the ability to extend the
  forecast lead time of the arrival of a shock in
  the solar wind created by a Coronal Mass Ejection
  at the sun from 1 hour to 1-3 days.

Extreme space weather conditions (e.g.,
geo-magnetic storming) can adversely affect
communications, satellite orbit decay, satellite
charging and result in false radar targets.
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Unstructured Grid Support (NCAR Lead)

• Ability to interpolate atmospheric model data in
  native format to unstructured grids.
• Build coupled applications where data can be
  exchanged between models every nth timestep.

ADCIRC Mesh 2 400 m resolution
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Guidelines for application development

• ESMF does not mandate how components interact.
• Need to define and implement the rules
  (standards) a component must follow to be part of
  the DoD whole-earth system.
• Goal is NOT to require that all components from
  space to underground run at the same time as one
  system.
• Instead, each organization uses the same
  whole-earth system (software and standards) to
  run the components of interest to them.
• Once we have ESMF-compliant components we will
  prototype the whole-earth system across limited
  domains (e.g. littoral or air-ocean)
• The prototypes will be immediately useful, but
  the goal is to gain the experience necessary to
  design and build a comprehensive whole-earth
  system.

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Long Term Goals and Metrics

• Goal DoDs in-house environmental RD is
  primarily based in the whole-earth environment.
  (FY05-10)
• of HPC hours in environment
• of funding for projects in environment
• Goal DoDs operational environmental products
  based in a whole-earth environment. (FY07-10)
• Environments transitioned to operational
  centers
• of operational hours in environment
• of operational products
• Goal DoD whole-earth environment
  interoperates with that from other agencies.
  (FY08-10)
• Multi-agency test cases
• of DoD multi-agency projects in environment

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BEI Interaction with ESMF and Related Efforts
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BEI Calendar

• Complete DRAFT Strategic Plan, Annual Performance
  Plan (Dec 04)
• ESMF Training (via PET) at Stennis January 18-19,
  2005
• BEI Kickoff Meeting (Stennis) January 20-21, 2005
• HSAI Site Visit February 2005
• UGC June 2005 (Nashville)
• ESMF Community Meeting Summer 2005