Toward an Earth System Knowledge Environment

The development of an Earth System Knowledge Environment (ESKE) is a cornerstone of NCAR's and CISL's Strategic Plans. Our goal is to continually develop new cyberinfrastructure that may be integrated into powerful, collaborative problem-solving environments that advance the community's ability to engage in research and scientific discovery, and to construct complex workflows. Our efforts span modeling frameworks, data and knowledge management and access, collaboration, and analysis and visualization. We cultivate opportunities to:

• Advance the state of the art through research and development grants complemented by core funding
• Transition the most promising and effective results into production capabilities that we support and distribute
• Integrate across capabilities to amplify our investments

This section of CISL's Annual Report describes CISL's activities and plans that contribute to the realization of the ESKE. Projects and programs are supported primarily by NSF Core funding, with other support as indicated by the individual reports in this document.