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The '''ESMF''' (''Earth System Modeling Framework'') is software for building and coupling multi-component [[climate]], numerical [[weather prediction]], [[data assimilation]], and other [[Earth science]] [[software application]]s. These applications are computationally demanding and usually run on [[supercomputers]]. The ESMF project is distinguished by its strong emphasis on community ownership and distributed development, and by a diverse customer base that includes modeling groups from universities, major U.S. research centers, the [[National Weather Service]], the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]], and [[NASA]]. The ESMF development team is centered at [[NCAR]].
==About ESMF==
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During the period of NASA funding, the ESMF team developed a prototype of the framework and used it in a number of experiments that demonstrated coupling of modeling components from different institutions. ESMF was also used as the basis for the construction of a new model, the GEOS-5 atmospheric [[general circulation model]] at [[NASA Goddard]].
As the end of the first funding cycle for ESMF neared, its collaborators wrote a Project Plan that described how ESMF could transition to an organization with multi-agency sponsorship for its next funding cycle. Major new five-year grants came from NASA, through the Modeling Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program for [[Climate Change]] and Variability, and from the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] [[Battlespace]] Environments Institute. The [[National Science Foundation | NSF]] continued funding part of the development team through [[NCAR]] core funds. Many smaller ESMF-based application adoption projects were funded in domains as diverse as [[space weather]] and [[sediment]] transport.
Also at the end of the first funding cycle, the ESMF collaborators wrote a white paper on Future Directions for the ESMF. This paper formed the basis for a proposal to [[NSF]] to combine ESMF (and other software frameworks) with data services to create a computational environment that supports an end-to-end modeling [[workflow]]. It was funded and has become the Earth System Curator project.
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