Experimental ENSO predictions by the UCLA atmospheric GCM coupled to the MIT and POP Oceanic GCMs using the Earth System Modeling Framework ( ESMF )

The present paper describes our work in the current round of NASA’s Computational Technologies (CT) Project. We address three major thrusts of this project: 1) to further our understanding of and ability to predict the dynamic interaction of physical and chemical processes affecting Earth, 2) to incorporate the use of NASA data and highlight its importance, and 3) to demonstrate interoperability of codes used in the community of Earth Science. We are following a three-tiered approach.