Comments on: Modularizing Climate Models http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=196 Or, What has Software Engineering got to do with Climate Change? Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:42:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Susannah Burrows http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=196&cpage=1#comment-1068 Susannah Burrows Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:20:58 +0000 http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=196#comment-1068 Another effort in this direction is the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy), developed at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (where I'm a PhD student). It has a smaller development/user community than some others, but probably gets closer to the ideal of modularity than most. The project has its own set of coding standards and a generalized interface structure. It is organized primarily around "process models" (convection, chemical kinetics, deposition) rather than model domains (land, sea, air). The primary application of the "MESSy" interface is the ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry model (EMAC), i.e. GCM + lots of submodels related to atmospheric chemistry. The website: http://www.messy-interface.org/ The citation: Patrick Jöckel, Rolf Sander, Astrid Kerkweg, Holger Tost, and Jos Lelieveld, Technical Note: The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) - a new approach towards Earth System Modeling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 433-444, 2005. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/5/433 Another effort in this direction is the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy), developed at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz (where I’m a PhD student). It has a smaller development/user community than some others, but probably gets closer to the ideal of modularity than most. The project has its own set of coding standards and a generalized interface structure. It is organized primarily around “process models” (convection, chemical kinetics, deposition) rather than model domains (land, sea, air). The primary application of the “MESSy” interface is the ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry model (EMAC), i.e. GCM + lots of submodels related to atmospheric chemistry.

The website:
http://www.messy-interface.org/

The citation:
Patrick Jöckel, Rolf Sander, Astrid Kerkweg, Holger Tost, and Jos Lelieveld, Technical Note: The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) – a new approach towards Earth System Modeling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 433-444, 2005.
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/5/433

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