Earth System Modeling Framework Community Requirements Meeting

All are invited you to the first open community meeting of the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) project on 30 May 2002 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. Our interdisciplinary collaboration includes the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, DOE Argonne National Laboratory, DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Michigan, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our three-year effort is being sponsored by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office.

The ESMF collaboration is developing a framework of software tools and standards for building and combining components of climate models, numerical weather prediction and data assimilation systems, and other Earth science applications. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss and collect software infrastructure and coupling requirements. Subsequent ESMF community meetings, to be held next year and the year after, will focus on the ESMF programming interface and using the ESMF in applications. Active and broad participation in ESMF development will enable us to build a framework that will serve the needs of both national modeling centers and the individual academic researcher.

All are encouraged to attend for all or part of the day. The Grand Hyatt Hotel is within walking distance of the Washington Convention Center, where the Spring American Geophysical Union meeting will be in session on the same day. An overview of the ESMF project will be provided in the Constitution Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt at 10:00 AM.

For more information, visit the website at: http://www.esmf.ucar.edu