The highly structured Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy)

Kurzfassung

Recent approaches towards Earth System Modeling follow a top-down approach, coupling existing models of different domains (land, ocean, atmosphere, ...) by means of a universal coupler. Yet, to study the interactions between bio-physico-chemical processes, the internal complexity of every domain specic model itself must be controllable in a transparent and user friendly way. The Modular Earth Submodel System provides - not as an alternative, but rather as a complement to the domain couplers - a bottom-up approach, including a generalized interface structure for the standardized control of submodels and their interconnections. This gives remarkable new possibilities to study feedback mechanisms. See www.messy-interface.org