ESPC Common Model Architecture

Abstract

To expedite the development of numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems, a national partnership National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC) was established between NOAA and Navy to develop common software architecture for easy and efficient interoperability. The overarching goal of NUOPC is to accelerate the rate of improvement in the US National environmental prediction capability, focusing initially on the global model enterprise. Improvements in prediction capability are expected to result in better environmental situation awareness, severe weather warnings (hurricanes, tornadoes, snow storms), better cost avoidance for weather sensitive industries (agriculture, transportation, utilities, and defense), and better informed decision making for industry, defense and the general public. These goals will be achieved through model development under a common model architecture and other software-related standards in this project.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616401

Entities

People

  • Cecelia Deluca
  • Melinda Peng

Organizations

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Digital Communications
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Geometry
  • Grids
  • Information Operations
  • Interoperability
  • Interpolation
  • Marine Meteorology
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Design
  • Standards
  • Virtual Machines
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Industrial Economics
  • Software Engineering.