Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The mission of the NOAA Environmental Software lnfrastructure and lnteroperability (NESll) group is to advance understanding and improve predictions of the Earth system by delivering infrastructure software that enables new scientific discoveries, fosters collaborations, and promotes resource efficiency. NESll software supports environmental modeling, data search and analysis, and metadata services. A core capability is the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF), a comprehensive object-oriented framework for building and coupling models. However, new development has focused on modular packages that can easily be combined with other software elements to form solutions to complex problems. Such modular packages include ESMPy, a Python grid remapping utility; OpenClimateGlS, a Python toolkit for subsetting, reformatting, and performing computations on climate data; Earth System CoG, a collaboration environment focused on model intercomparison projects; and Earth System Documentation (ES-Doc) tools for collecting, displaying, and comparing model metadata, developed in collaboration with an E.U. consortium. These and other NESll efforts are described.
Authors: Cecelia DeLuca, Peggy Li, Gerhard Theurich
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2567267907