Improving Earth System Model Development via Hierarchical System Development and the Common Community Physics Package

Ek, Michael

Improving Earth System Model Development via Hierarchical System Development and the Common Community Physics Package

Michael B Ek^1,2, Ligia Bernardet^2,3, Grant Firl^2,3, Dom Heinzeller⁴, Michael Kavulich Jr⁵, Weiwei Li^2,6, Louisa B Nance^2,6, Dustin Swales¹, Lulin Xue^1,2 and Man Zhang^2,7, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA, OAR/GSL, Boulder, United States, (4)Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), Boulder, United States, (5)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (6)NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States, (7)NOAA, Global Systems Laboratory, University of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States