Earth System Modeling Framework



ESMF Reference Manual for Fortran  



Version 3.1




ESMF Joint Specification Team: V. Balaji, Byron Boville, Samson Cheung, Nancy Collins, Tony Craig, Carlos Cruz, Arlindo da Silva, Cecelia DeLuca, Rosalinda de Fainchtein, Brian Eaton, Bob Hallberg, Tom Henderson, Chris Hill, Mark Iredell, Rob Jacob, Phil Jones, Erik Kluzek, Brian Kauffman, Jay Larson, Peggy Li, John Michalakes, Sylvia Murphy, David Neckels, Bob Oehmke, Chuck Panaccione, Jim Rosinski, Will Sawyer, Earl Schwab, Shepard Smithline, Don Stark, Max Suarez, Spencer Swift, Gerhard Theurich, Silverio Vasquez, Jon Wolfe, Weiyu Yang, Mike Young, Leonid Zaslavsky



December 3, 2007

Acknowledgements

The ESMF software is based on the contributions of a broad community. Below are the software packages that are included in ESMF or strongly influenced our design. We'd like to express our gratitude to the developers of these codes for access to their software as well as their ideas and advice.

• The Spherical Coordinate Remapping and Interpolation Package (SCRIP) from Los Alamos, on which we based our regridding functionality with the help of SCRIP author Phil Jones

• The Model Coupling Toolkit (MCT) from Argonne National Laboratory, on which we based our sparse matrix multiply approach to general regridding

• The Inpack configuration attributes package from NASA Goddard, which was adapted for use in ESMF by members of NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation group

• The Flexible Modeling System (FMS) package from GFDL and the Goddard Earth Modeling System (GEMS) from NASA Goddard, both of which provided inspiration for overall ESMF structure

• The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) modeling system, on which we based our underlying I/O implementation

• The Common Component Architecture (CCA) effort within the DoE, from which we drew many ideas about how to design components

• The Vector Signal Image Processing Library (VSIPL) and its predecessors, which informed many aspects of our design, and the radar system software design group at Lincoln Laboratory

• The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) package from Argonne National Laboratories, on which we based our initial makefile system