A Retrospective Analysis of an Epistemological Computer Simulation That Framed the Design of the US Global Operational Observing Systems for the Past 50 Years and Future Decades.

Milton Halem, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Computer Science, Baltimore, MD, United States, Mark A Cane, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Richard Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Zhifeng Yang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Physics Department, Baltimore, MD, United States