NESII About Us
| Long Name | NOAA Environmental Software Infrastructure and Interoperability Group (NESII) |
| Description | The NESII group collaboratively develops a range of software infrastructure products for the Earth system sciences. These include model coupling systems, grid remapping and other utilities, metadata services, data subsetting and reformatting tools, and model intercomparison and collaboration environments. NESII products are distinguished by their outstanding computational performance and portability, range of features and options, production quality, and level of user support. They can stand alone, but they are also built to work together as a suite to address complex problems. |
CoG Project About Us
| Long Name | Earth System CoG |
| Description | CoG is a multi-institutional project that seeks to examine, within the Earth sciences, the organizational characteristics of community software projects and to recommend structures and processes for their efficient governance. It also seeks to develop software infrastructure that can facilitate that governance. |
Cupid Project About Us
| Long Name | Cupid |
| Description | The Cupid project is creating a software development and user training environment for climate models. There are two main activities. The first is the creation of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on the Eclipse framework, work led by the Georgia Institute of Technology. The second is the componentization of GISS ModelE, a collaboration that includes staff from NOAA NESII, NASA GISS and NASA GSFC. Standard ESMF and NUOPC component interfaces will be prototyped. As the project proceeds, we plan to merge these lines of development, so that ModelE can be linked to the IDE. The resulting system should allow GISS modelers and new users to change, configure, and run the model more easily. |
ESMF Project About Us
| Long Name | Earth System Modeling Framework |
| Description | The ESMF (Earth System Modeling Framework) is open source software for building climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science software applications. These applications are computationally demanding and usually run on supercomputers. The ESMF project is distinguished by its strong emphasis on community governance and distributed development, and by a diverse customer base that includes modeling groups from universities, major U.S. research centers, the National Weather Service, the Department of Defense, and NASA. |
ESMFWebServices Project About Us
| Long Name | ESMF Web Services |
| Description | ESMF Web Services enable the coupling of models running on heterogeneous computing resources. For example, one model may run on a high performance, massively parallel computer while another runs on a local workstation. |
ESMP Project About Us
| Long Name | ESMF Python Interface |
| Description | ESMP is a prototype Python interface to the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) regridding utility. ESMF is software for building and coupling weather, climate, and related models. ESMF has a robust, parallel and scalable remapping package, used to generate remapping weights. It can handle a wide variety of grids and options: logically rectangular grids and unstructured meshes; regional or global grids; 2D or 3D; and pole and masking options. |
EarthSystemCurator Project About Us
| Long Name | Earth System Curator |
| Description | The Earth System Curator project focused on developing metadata and associated services in order to document Earth system simulations and models. Curator metadata and displays were used in the Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Projects (DCMIPs) in 2008 and 2012, and were also used in the 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). |
NUOPC Project About Us
| Long Name | National Unified Operational Prediction Capability |
| Description | The National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC) is a consortium of Navy, NOAA, and Air Force modelers and their research partners. It aims to advance the weather prediction modeling systems used by meteorologists, mission planners, and decision makers. NUOPC partners are working toward a common model architecture - a standard way or building models - in order to make it easier to collaboratively build modeling systems. To this end, they have developed a NUOPC Layer that defines conventions and templates for using the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF). The NUOPC Layer also includes a compliance checker that helps to guide users through implementation of compliant model components. |
OpenClimateGIS Project About Us
| Long Name | OpenClimateGIS |
| Description | The goal of OpenClimateGIS is to make climate model datasets readily available in commonly used, modern geospatial formats used by GIS software, browser-based mapping tools, and virtual globes. |
RegridWeightGen Project About Us
| Long Name | RegridWeightGen |
| Description | The ESMF_RegridWeightGen software is a utility for generating interpolation weights from file. It is bundled with the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) distribution and is an easy way to begin using ESMF regridding |
NCPP Project About Us
| Long Name | National Climate Predictions and Projections Platform |
| Description | NCPP develops comprehensive regional and local information about the evolving climate to inform decision making and adaptation planning. Within NCPP, users and scientists collaboratively generate, review, and analyze climate predictions and projections. |
ESRL-ESGF-DataNode Project About Us
| Long Name | ESRL ESGF Data Node |
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ES-DOC-Models Project About Us
| Long Name | Earth System Model Documentation |
| Description | ES-DOC-Models is a joint international effort to develop metadata services for a set of climate modeling and related projects. This project is the evolution of the Metafor project and Earth System Curator project. Development focuses on the Common Information Model (CIM), a schema for describing Earth System Models. |
DCMIP Project About Us
| Long Name | Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project |
| Description | The Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) evaluates of the fluid flow component of atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs). The goal of DCMIP is to survey the advantages and trade-offs of the many numerical and computational design options in the dynamical cores of weather and climate models. These options incorporate the choice of the equation set, numerical schemes, computational grids and their grid staggering options, dissipative mechanisms, and the computational efficiency. In addition, the coupling strategy to physical parameterizations and simple moisture feedbacks are assessed. The assessments utilize a suite of idealized dry and moist dynamical core test cases. Sponsored by NOAA, NSF, DoE, NCAR CISL |
CF-Projects Project About Us
| Long Name | CF Projects |
| Description | This project includes a set of proposals and additions to the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions. The CF conventions are designed to promote the processing and sharing of files created with the NetCDF API. The conventions define metadata that provide a definitive description of what the data in each variable represents, and the spatial and temporal properties of the data. |
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