Overview of the Battlespace Environments Institute

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Overview of the Battlespace Environments Institute

• Rick Allard
• Naval Research Laboratory
• Stennis Space Center, MS

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Institute Overview
The Battlespace Environments Institute (BEI)
will

• 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.

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BEI Management Framework
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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

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BEI Board of Directors

• Dr. Cray Henry (Director, HPCMP)
• Dr. Eric Hartwig (NRL ADOR)
• Dr. Ed Gough (CNMOC TD)
• Mr. Mike Howland (AFWA TD)
• Mr. Al Kellie (NCAR)
• Dr. Tom Richardson (ERDC)

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BEFORE BEI
NO DOD COMPONENT !!
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NRL SSC Role in the Battlespace Environments
Institute Project Overview

• Build ESMF interfaces within existing scalable
  ocean models (HYCOM, NCOM, SWAN and ADCIRC)
• Provide the necessary components for
  applications with atmospheric, ocean, ice, and
  riverine models.
• Develop coupled applications to support
  operational Navy
• HYCOM-CICE (ocean, ice)
• SWAN-ADCIRC (wave, circulation)
• ADCIRC-WASH123D (circulation, riverine,
  watershed)
• COAMPS-NCOM (atmosphere, ocean)

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NRL-SSC Progress to Date

• NCOM Level 4 compliance by Sep 05
• HYCOM Level 4 compliance by Sep 05
• Begin work with ESMF version of CICE
• Integrated Software Development Plan Underway
• FY06 Plans
• Alpha, Beta Testing of HYCOM-CICE
• Attain Level 4 ESMF Compliance with ADCIRC, SWAN

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HYCOM Validation
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Global HYCOM Coupling With CICE

• CICE will run on HYCOM grid which will ease
  coupling between ocean and ice models
• Sensitivity runs are currently underway for
  validation at coarser resolution (35 km)
• Coupling will be done in fully-coupled mode using
  ESMF (coordinated with BEI institute)
• HYCOM Arctic grid resolution 3.5 km (for 1/12
  degree global HYCOM planned for FY07 transition
  to NAVOCEANO)

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NRL MRY Role in the Battlespace Environments
Institute Project Overview

• Build ESMF and WRF interfaces within COAMPS to
  facilitate
• Model Additions/Exchanges
• Data Exchanges
• Physical parameterization exchanges (leveraged
  w/SPAWAR funding)
• Prototype two-way coupling suggests
• Improved atmospheric boundary layer prediction
• Improved ocean boundary layer prediction
• Successfully implemented ESMF into NOGAPS/POP
  two-way coupled system
• Convert COAMPS atmospheric model and flux coupler
  to ESMF architecture

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NRL-MRY FY06 Plans

• Annual Goal (NRL-MRY, NRL-SSC) Develop coupled
  COAMPS-NCOM application.
• Test flux coupler to work with both COAMPS and
  NCOM modeling systems. Identify environmental
  data (e.g., sea surface temperature) that will be
  exchanged between models. Coupled system will be
  tested on multiple HPC platforms. System should
  demonstrate both one- and two-way capability.
• Measures of success (metrics)
• Successful Alpha test of coupled COAMPS-NCOM by
  4QFY06. Coordinate with Mission Support Center
  (San Diego) in regards to planned FY07 transition
  to operations.

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AFWA Progress to Date

• Contracts being awarded for space wx tasking
• Develop scalable versions of HAF, GAIM models
  using ESMF infrastructure
• FY06 Software Acceptance Testing of scalable
  HAF, GAIM
• WRF parallel benchmarks available to community

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ERDC Progress to Date

• Begin coding work with WASH123D model coordinate
  with NRL-SSC on development of coupled
  application using ADCIRC or NCOM
• ESMF Unstructured grid support needed
• FY06
• Annual Goal Develop coupler between WASH123D
  and ADCIRC or NCOM. Identify environmental
  fields to be exchanged (e.g., river discharge,
  currents, tide levels) between models
• Measures of success (metrics)
• Successful testing of WASH123D with stub ocean
  model using coupler.

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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.

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NCAR Progress to Date

• Grant between NRL/NCAR signed June 2005 (hooray!)
• 2 members of ESMF core team covered full-time
• Recruitment effort underway for UCAR Visiting
  Scientist (unstructured grids)
• The ESMF Core Team worked on the development of
  ESMF Version 2.2.0, released in July, 2005. This
  public release includes
•   Performance optimization for communications
  where multiple fields are transferred
•   Reworked makefiles designed to be easier to
  maintain and port to new architectures
•   Bug fixes, including problems with
  redistribution and halo methods in concurrent
  components (needed by Steve Lowder, NRL MRY
  contractor, among others)

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BEI Interaction with ESMF and Related Efforts
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BEI Timeline

• BOD 2nd Site Visit Aug 3rd (Stennis)
• Supercomputing 05 Nov 05(Seattle)
• Integrated Modeling Session at Fall AGU
• BEI Review 2nd Q FY06 (NCAR ?)
• HPCMP UGC June 06 (Denver)
• BOD 3rd Site Visit (TBD)

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