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SCD plays central role in Earth System Modeling Framework

The Earth System Modeling Framework project's core implementation team is based in SCD. L to R, Robbie Staufer, Earl Schwab, Silverio Vasquez, Cecelia DeLuca (manager), and Jon Wolfe. Not pictured, Nancy Collins and Chuck Panaccione.

The ESMF is the premier national project to develop a modeling infrastructure that will help scientists and engineers use common software to solve routine computational problems. ESMF's core implementation team is based in SCD, reflecting SCD's leadership in blending computational and scientific expertise.

NCAR and SCD will host the third Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) community meeting at the Mesa Laboratory in Boulder on 15 July 2004. The ESMF team will highlight the new capabilities of ESMF Version 2.0, scheduled for release this month. They will also collect feedback from early users of the framework and present a brief tutorial on using ESMF.

"We'll show ESMF at work in real modeling codes," says SCD's Cecelia DeLuca, manager of the core implementation team. "We've used ESMF both for its general-purpose utilities — for instance, time management, logging, and error handling — and its coupling software, which takes data coming out of one model and puts it into another. We've created a number of demonstration applications based on model couplings that had never been done before. So we'll talk about how those experiments have gone."

By helping scientists and engineers use common software to solve routine computational problems, ESMF will ultimately result in better research and accelerated progress in simulating the Earth's weather and climate systems.

For an in-depth story on the ESMF and SCD's role in developing the framework, see:

Earth System Modeling Framework Version 2.0 to be presented at NCAR on 15 July

Photo: Lynda Lester, NCAR/SCD