Third ESMF Community Meeting to be held 15 July at NCAR

Earth System Modeling Framework

T he third Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Community Meeting will be held on 15 July 2004 in NCAR's Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. (Full story)

The ESMF team will present a new version of the framework, ESMF Version 2.0, which is scheduled for release in June 2004. Team members will describe the capabilities of the new release, present a brief tutorial on using ESMF, and collect feedback from early users of the framework.

Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be available at 0800, and the meeting will start at 0830. A reception will be held that evening at 1800 on the Mesa Lab Tree Plaza.

Accommodations will be at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder (303-443-3850). A block of rooms has been reserved for the meeting under the name ESMF.

Please register by 11 June if you plant to attend.

For more information, contact Jennifer Delaurant (delauran@ucar.edu, 303-497-1263).

About ESMF

The ESMF is a multi-agency effort that includes many of the major climate, weather, and data assimilation efforts in the U.S. Project collaborators are working to build a high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. The ESMF defines an architecture for composing multi-component applications and includes data structures and utilities for developing model components.

The ESMF team is aiming to create a framework usable by individual researchers as well as major operational and research centers, and seek to engage the community in its development.

For full coverage on the third ESMF community meeting, see:

• Earth System Modeling Framework Version 2.0 to be presented at NCAR on 15 July

See also:

• Earth System Modeling Framework home page
• Earth System Modeling Framework project to hold first open community meeting
• NCAR to build software infrastructure for next-generation Earth Science modeling collaboration
• A framework for Earth system modeling