Coupling climate models with the Earth System Modeling Framework and the Common Component Architecture

Abstract

AbstractTypical Earth system models involve coupled model components in high‐performance computing (HPC) environments. In the last few years, several frameworks have been developed for HPC applications. Two of them are component‐based frameworks: the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) defining a component interface for Earth system models and the Common Component Architecture (CCA) defining a generic component model. The purpose of this work is to investigate the relationship between ESMF and CCA to deploy the best features of ESMF and CCA into a ESMF–CCA prototype and examine the prototype through a representative coupled climate model. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.