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Battlespace Environments Institute Overview

Battlespace Environments Institute Overview. Rick Allard Oceanography Division NRL Stennis. BEI Overview.

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Battlespace Environments Institute Overview

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  1. Battlespace Environments InstituteOverview Rick Allard Oceanography Division NRL Stennis ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  2. BEI Overview • Facilitate the integration of Earth and space modeling capabilities into a seamless, whole-earth common modeling infrastructure allowing the inter-service development of multiple, mission-specific environmental simulations. (GOAL) • Support battlefield decisions, improve interoperability, reduce operating costs, streamline the transition of cutting-edge environmental technologies from research into DoD operations. (GOAL) • Use the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) as an “enabling technology” to develop the whole-earth system. Bring in DoD as a partner to the ESMF. Transition non-DoD ESMF applications to DoD. (STRATEGY) • Foster wider collaborations between DoD, multiple government agencies, academia and industry. ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  3. BEI Stakeholders “Convergence to a common modeling infrastructure willimprove interoperability, reduce operating costs, and most importantlystreamline the transitionof cutting-edge technologies from research into DoD operations.” (COL Bensen, AFWA) “The development of a framework to support internally consistent modeling of the entire (land-sea-air) battlespace environment is important to our strategic goal of providing essential guidance with respect to environmental factors that impact warfighter decisions.” (CAPT Gunderson, FNMOC) • Dr. James Houston, ERDC • Dr. Ed Gough, CNMOC TD • Dr. Michele Rienecker, NASA GMAO • Dr. Tim Killeen, Director, NCAR • Dr. Stephen Lord, Director, NCEP Modeling Center • Dr. John Harding, Acting, NAVO • Dr. Ants Leetma, Director, GFDL • COL Bensen, AFWA • Dr. Phil Jones, Los Alamos • CAPT Gunderson, FNMOC ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  4. Institute Management Framework ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  5. Institute Technical Framework • Technical Teams: • Army (ERDC): Groundwater, riverine • Air Force (AFWA): Space weather, WRF • Navy (NRL-SSC): Ocean dynamics (waves, currents, ice), coupling • Navy (NRL-MRY) Atmospheric modeling, enhancements and coupling • NCAR: ESMF Core Team, unstructured grids, WRF, new capabilities for DoD • Management: • NRL-SSC Provides Technical, Financial Oversight ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  6. ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  7. Battlespace Environments Institute Objectives • To develop a DoD-wide whole-earth environment which interoperates with that from other agencies: • Migrate core DoD models to ESMF • Navy (e.g., NCOM, HYCOM, SWAN, COAMPS™) • Air Force (Kinematic Solar Wind and GAIM ) • Army (e.g., ADCIRC, WASH123) • Development of tools and applications (e.g., extend ESMF to support unstructured grids and nesting) • Coupled applications: Air/ocean, air/ocean/ice, air/ocean/groundwater, air/space-weather • Thorough testing, prototyping, documentation of all components ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  8. Short-Term Goal: • Integrate the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS™) into the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) modeling infrastructure • Milestones: • Adapt WRF I/O standards • Redesign COAMPS™ physical parameterizations for WRF standards • Incorporate COAMPS™ dynamic core into WRF • Assist in modifying WRF infrastructure to address: • Unique COAMPS™ capabilities (e.g., Air/Ocean coupling, moving nested grids) • Efficiency • Flexibility • Ensure that COAMPS™ performance in the WRF infrastructure matches current performance Battlespace Environments Institute NRL MRY Short-Term Goals ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  9. Long-Term Goal: • Utilize the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) standards to build and validate enhanced capabilities for COAMPS/WRF • Enhanced Capabilities: • Two-way air/ocean coupling • Aerosol-Radiation and Aerosol-Cloud Microphysics interactions • High-resolution (< 3 km) tropical cyclone modeling with explicit physics • Urban parameterizations • Mesoscale ensembles NRL MRY Long-Term Goals ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  10. BEI NRL MRY Long-Term Goals Explicit microphysics will allow the prediction of large convective systems and tropical cyclone structure and intensity Two-way air/ocean coupling will enable the analysis and prediction of high-resolution, consistent fields in both the atmosphere and ocean ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  11. AFWA Space Weather Goals Couple ESMF versions of HAF and GAIM models to provide DoD with the ability to extend the forecast lead time of the arrival of a shock in the solar wind created by a Coronal Mass Ejection at the sun from 1 hour to 1-3 days. Extreme space weather conditions (e.g., geo-magnetic storming) can adversely affect communications, satellite orbit decay, satellite charging and result in false radar targets. ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  12. Unstructured Grid Support (NCAR Lead) • Ability to interpolate atmospheric model data in native format to unstructured grids. • Build coupled applications where data can be exchanged between models every nth timestep. ADCIRC Mesh: 2 – 400 m resolution ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  13. Guidelines for application development: • ESMF does not mandate how components interact. • Need to define and implement the rules (standards) a component must follow to be part of the DoD whole-earth system. • Goal is NOT to require that all components from space to underground run at the same time as one system. • Instead, each organization uses the same whole-earth system (software and standards) to run the components of interest to them. • Once we have ESMF-compliant components we will prototype the whole-earth system across limited domains (e.g. littoral or air-ocean) • The prototypes will be immediately useful, but the goal is to gain the experience necessary to design and build a comprehensive whole-earth system. ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  14. Long Term Goals and Metrics • Goal: DoD’s in-house environmental R&D is primarily based in the whole-earth environment. (FY05-10) • % of HPC hours in environment • % of funding for projects in environment • Goal: DoD’s operational environmental products based in a whole-earth environment. (FY07-10) • Environments transitioned to operational centers • % of operational hours in environment • % of operational products • Goal: DoD whole-earth environment interoperates with that from other agencies. (FY08-10) • Multi-agency test cases • % of DoD multi-agency projects in environment ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  15. BEI Interaction with ESMF and Related Efforts ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

  16. BEI Calendar • Complete DRAFT Strategic Plan, Annual Performance Plan (Dec ’04) • ESMF Training (via PET) at Stennis January 18-19, 2005 • BEI Kickoff Meeting (Stennis) January 20-21, 2005 • HSAI Site Visit February 2005 • UGC June 2005 (Nashville) • ESMF Community Meeting Summer 2005 ESMF Interagency Working Group Meeting

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