Global Interoperability Program

Building Interoperable Earth Science Infrastructure

Efforts to develop and coordinate software infrastructure for Earth science span organizations, agencies, and countries. The Global Interoperability Program (GIP) supports a set of high-priority development activities in climate and weather research, operational forecasting, and assessments of environmental change, and has created a uniquely broad forum for these diverse groups to interact. Learn more.

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gip _info@list.woc.noaa.gov: GIP quarterly updates
go-essp-tech@ucar.edu: GO-ESSP technical discussions on CMIP5 and climate data
metafor@lists.enes.org: METAFOR technical discussion on climate model metadata
esmf_jst@list.woc.noaa.gov: ESMF technical discussions on model tools and coupling

News and Highlights

The Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal (GO-ESSP) annual meeting will be held in Asheville, NC, from May 10-12, 2011. Register and read more about it. May, 2011

The 2010 GIP Annual Report highlights achievements of the first year of the program. View the report. March, 2011

ESMF Internal Release 5.2.0 contains newly standardized interfaces as well as several improvements to grids and regridding functions. Learn more and download. February, 2011

The first Summer School on Atmospheric Modeling (SSAM), held from July 19-21 at NCAR in Boulder, CO, was sponsored by GIP. The summer school focused on the Flow-Following Finite-Volume Icosahedral Model (FIM) developed at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL). September, 2010