| What is the Earth System Curator? |
The Earth System Curator is
an NSF sponsored research project that extends the work of the Earth
System Modeling Framework (ESMF),
the Earth System Grid (ESG),
GO-ESSP, and
other community efforts to develop infrastructure and standards for
climate and weather models and datasets. ESMF seeks to
develop a software framework that facilitates integration, reuse, and
interoperability of climate
and weather prediction models. Curator explores the possibilities
opened up by the observation
that the descriptors used for comprehensively specifying a model
configuration are needed for a scientifically useful description of the
model output data as well. The convergence of models and data,
and the development of a common metadata schema that describes both,
will be the basis for this unique and powerful community resource. The
Curator will provide a community database from which researchers can
archive and query a wide class of Earth system models, experiments,
model components, and model output data and results. Researchers will
subsequently be able to either analyze model output from pre-existing
runs, or access a model and modify and run it themselves, either on a
local computer or on the virtualized resources of the computational
Grid. In addition to the query function, the Curator will include a
tool that tests if sets of model components or datasets can viably
interact to form an application. We consider issues of to technical
compatibility of model components first, and later explore bounds and
techniques for expressing and addressing scientific compatibility. Also
included are tools for auto-generation of component wrappers and
applications.
The complete proposal is available here (pdf, ps). |
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| People |
- Cecelia DeLuca, Principal Investigator, NCAR
- V. Balaji, Co-Investigator, GFDL/Princeton University
- Don Middleton, Co-Investigator, NCAR
- John Marshall, Co-Investigator, MIT
- Chris Hill, Co-Investigator, MIT
- Spencer
Rugaber, Co-Investigator, Georgia Tech
- Leo
Mark, Co-Investigator, Georgia Tech
- Rocky
Dunlap, Ph.D. Student, Georgia Tech
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