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ECMWF is a participant in the PRogram for Integrated Earth System Modelling
(PRISM) project funded by the European Union.
Project aim
An Infrastructure Project for Climate Research in Europe and a Research
Project supported by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programe
and contributing to the implementation of the Key Action "To understand,
detect, assess and predict global climate change processes" within
the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Contract no: EVR1-CT2001-40012
ECMWF's involvement
The primary challenges in the project are :
- Technical: To provide an infrastructure that allows for remote
configuration, submission and control of climate model experiments.
- Scientific:Standardise model components to allow coupling of
interchangeable model components, eg. atmosphere,ocean, biosphere, chemistry
etc., that exchanges data in one experiment.
ECMWF is contributing to the technical development of an infrastructure
based on the experiences of the DAWN (Distributed Applications over Wide
area Networks) project, see
the newsletter article "TEN-34 and DAWN", pp.10-13). In
particular, it involves the enhancement of the configuration tool
PrepIFS, used by the researchers at ECMWF for submitting their model
experiments. ECMWF has also licenced its scheduling manager SMS
for use in running the PRISM models at the PRISM sites.
The project has now completed and the resulting software is available as a CD
Further information on the PRISM project and its activities are available
from the PRISM site (External links in a new window):
Contact point at ECMWF is Dr. M. Miller.
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