Beyond 2004:ESMF Evolution
Maintenance, support and management
- NCAR commitment to maintain and support core ESMF software
- Seeking inter-agency commitment to develop ESMF
Technical evolution
- Functional extension:
- Support for advanced data assimilation algorithms: error covariance operators, infrastructure for generic variational algorithms, etc.
- additional grids, new domains
- Earth System Modeling Environment, including web/GUI interface, databases of components and experiments, standard diagnostic fields, standard component interfaces.