Sustainable earth system monitoring
This was the first time an integrated European approach was adopted where compatible component models and diagnostic/visualisation tools were developed. Thereby, a European management structure for developing, coordinating and executing a long-term program of European-wide, multi-institutional climate simulations has been realised. Additionally, the developed set of climate community models and associated diagnostic software under standardised coding conventions are accessible to all European scientists. The portable, flexible and standard-based infrastructure involves a standard coupler and I/O software (OASIS3), standard compiling and running environment (SCE and SRE) at the scripting level. Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for configuring the SCE and SRE and a GUI for an end-to-end monitoring of climate experiments were also developed. The developed infrastructure features portability, user-friendliness, flexibility and conformity to standards for assembling, compiling, running, monitoring and post-processing the Earth System Models. Demonstration results showed that even complex component models could be easily assembled, compiled and run with the aid of the PRISM system. Project results have already been adopted by many important European institutions and wider community undertakings, such as IPCC runs, ENSEMBLES and GEMS FP6 projects. The project has strengthened interaction among the European Earth system research community and opened-up new avenues for scientific co-operation and co-ordination. Provision has been made for the PRISM software to be continuously maintained and improved to suit the ever increasing demands of the Earth system modelling community. Sustained support of PRISM on user level is a prerequisite for its further existence and towards this aim, the established PRISM support initiative planned a meeting for further actions. These involved coordination improvement, maintenance and user support of current PRISM software and supporting adaptation of other component models to PRISM's technical standards. Additional issues discussed were potential installation of PRISM software environment at additional computing sites, preparation for further funding and proposing development strategies. For more details click at: http://www.prism.enes.org/sustained(opens in new window)
