Coupling Infrastructure and Interoperability Layer Extension Across All Earth System Components
Abstract
A fully coupled global (atmosphere/wave/ocean/land/ice) prediction system providing daily predications out to 10 days and weekly predictions out to 30 days. Initial operational capability is targeted for 2018. Predictions will provide environmental information to meet Navy and DoD operations and planning needs throughout the globe from undersea to the upper atmosphere and from the tropics to the poles. The system will be implemented on Navy operational computer systems, and the necessary processing infrastructure will be put in place to provide products for the Navy fleet user consumption. The objective of this effort is to implement a flexible multi-model coupling software infrastructure, based on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) with the National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC) Interoperability Layer, for use in both global and regional Navy ESPC systems, and integrate each of the Navy relevant models into this system. The NUOPC Interoperability Layer (a software layer that implements portions of the NUOPC Common Model Architecture (CMA) on top of ESMF) provides generic library code with hooks for specialization together with metadata, utility methods, field dictionary and a compliance checker. Basing the implementation on the ESMF/NUOPC Layer will reduce the amount of software to maintain and significantly improve the model interoperability with other systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA601269
Entities
People
- Timothy J. Campbell
- Timothy R. Whitcomb
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory