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Common modeling infrastructure
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<h2 id="general">General</h2> <p>Common modeling infrastructure projects include the Network Common Data Form (<a href="/facts/NetCDF/DUwTEW7n">NetCDF</a>) library, the Spherical Coordinate Remapping and Interpolation Package (SCRIP), the Flexible Modeling System (FMS),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> the OASIS coupler developed at CERFACS, and the multi-agency Earth System Modeling Framework (<a href="/facts/ESMF/hNMbGAMA">ESMF</a>). </p><p>The <a href="/facts/Earth_System_Modeling_Framework/hNMbGAMA">Earth System Modeling Framework</a> (ESMF) is considered a technical layer, integrated into a common modeling infrastructure. Other aspects of interoperability and shared infrastructure include: common experimental protocols, common analytic methods, common documentation standards for data and data <a href="/facts/Provenance/sxcgEXTH">provenance</a>, shared workflow, and shared model components.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of journal papers and government reports described common modeling infrastructure as necessary to the competitiveness and evolution of the U.S. Earth science modeling community. These reports resulted in a number of new community projects. The <a href="http://www.earthsystemmodeling.org/">Earth System Modeling Framework</a> (<a href="/facts/ESMF/hNMbGAMA">ESMF</a>) and the <a href="http://science.energy.gov/ber/research/cesd/earth-system-modeling-program/">Earth System Modeling</a> (ESM) are two of the largest modeling approaches. Similar projects were initiated in related domains, including the <a href="http://csem.engin.umich.edu/tools/swmf/">Space Weather Modeling Framework</a> (SWMF/CESM), to study conditions including the Sun, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that potentially can influence performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems or can endanger human life or health. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Climate_model/5xQBYLcl">Climate model</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Earth_System_Modeling_Framework/hNMbGAMA">Earth System Modeling Framework</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Dickinson, R. E.; S. E. Zebiak; J. L. Anderson; M. L. Blackmon; C. DeLuca; T. F. Hogan; M. Iredell; M. Ji; R. B. Rood; M. J. Suarez; K. E. Taylor (2002). "How Can We Advance Our Climate and Weather Models as a Community?" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 83: 431–434. doi:10.1175/1520-0477(2002)083<0431:hcwaow>2.3.co;2. <a href="http://climateknowledge.org/openclimate/docref/Dickinson_Community_Software_BAMS_2002.pdf" target="_blank">http://climateknowledge.org/openclimate/docref/Dickinson_Community_Software_BAMS_2002.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Flexible Modeling System (GFDL)". <a href="http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/fms" target="_blank">http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/fms</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>NOAA/CPO MAPP (March 31, 2014). "Scientific Basis for Common Infrastructure" (PDF). p. 15. <a href="http://cpo.noaa.gov/sites/cpo/MAPP/Webinars/2014/03-31-14/Balaji.pdf" target="_blank">http://cpo.noaa.gov/sites/cpo/MAPP/Webinars/2014/03-31-14/Balaji.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>