NOAA Environmental Software Infrastructure and Interoperability (NESII) Group

The NESII group develops software infrastructure for a variety of projects that involve numerical modeling and data services for the Earth system sciences. NESII projects emphasize collaborative, distributed development and community governance.

ESMF Quick Links ESMF Home Download ESMF Impacts	The Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) is high-performance software infrastructure for building weather, climate, and related models. It enables models to be organized as sets of components representing physical domains and processes, such as atmospheres, oceans, and land masses. The components can be reused in different contexts and shared by multiple research and operational centers. ESMF also provides toolkits for common modeling functions, so modelers don't need to develop those utilities independently.
NUOPC Quick Links NUOPC Home NUOPC Common Model Architecture	NUOPC (National Unified Operational Prediction Capability) is an agreement to coordinate activities between NOAA, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force in order to accelerate the transition of new technology, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and achieve a superior National global prediction capability. The NESII team is participating in the development of a NUOPC Common Model Architecture (CMA) based upon ESMF.
GIP Quick Links GIP Home Documenting Earth science infrastructure on Wikipedia GIP Projects	The NOAA Global Interoperability Program (GIP) promotes and supports the software infrastructure that makes possible U.S. and international programs in climate and weather research, operational forecasting, and assessments and impacts of environmental change. Development of the software, and initiatives to enhance interoperablity and integration, are distributed across many groups, with funding from many sponsors, spanning organizations, agencies, and countries.
Curator Quick Links Curator Home CMIP5 Gateway ESMF-OpenMI Integration	The Curator project collaboratively develops software infrastructure to support end-to-end modeling in the Earth sciences. It spans the gaps between modeling and data services, using metadata to exhaustively document models and datasets and to automate routine processes and sophisticated workflows. It is intimately involved in the development of a model metadata portal for 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5).
NCPP Quick Links NCPP project home	The National Climate Predictions and Projections (NCPP) Platform is a multi-agency collaboration whose goal is to develop tools and services to facilitate the use of climate model global datasets at the regional and local scale, including regridding, downscaling, and conversion to user-friendly formats.
COG Quick Links CoG home on the CoG workspace	CoG is a multi-institutional project that seeks to examine, within the Earth sciences, the organizational characteristics of community software projects and to recommend structures and processes for their efficient governance. It also seeks to develop software infrastructure that can facilitate that governance.