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National Unified Operational Prediction Capability
Building a NUOPC Model
ESMF 9.0.0 beta snapshot
Content Standards Committee (CSC) Members
February 24, 2026
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Overview
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Document Roadmap
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Additional NUOPC Resources
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The Big Idea
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Specializing Generic Components
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NUOPC Model Cap
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How Much of My Code Do I Need to Change?
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How Do I Know it Works?
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Writing and Testing a NUOPC Cap for your Model
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Install ESMF and NUOPC on the Target Machine
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Prepare Your Model Code
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Choose a Configuration of Your Model for Development
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Integrate a Cap Template into Your Codebase
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Modify Your Build to Generate a NUOPC Makefile Fragment
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Initialize Your Model from the Cap
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Call Your Model's Run Subroutine from the Cap
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Run the Cap with a NUOPC Driver
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Split Up the Initialization Phases
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Test and Validate Your Cap
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Example NUOPC Model cap
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An Example Cap
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Module Imports
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SetServices
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Checking Return Codes
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Initialize Phase - Advertise Fields
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Initialize Phase - Realize Fields
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Model Advance Specialization
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