| Year 1: |
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Define and implement spherical adaptive block structure for UA-GCM. |
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Rewrite TIE-GCM for high performance parallel computation to form UA-GCM |
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Couple UA-GCM, IMM, and BATS-R-US codes. |
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Implement and test rendezvous mechanisms to interpolate between the UA_GCM spherical adaptive block grid and the BATS-R-US Cartesian adaptive block grid. |
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Test coupled codes on archival data |
Year 2: |
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Integrate coupled codes more tightly to form the KDI |
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Improve multi-grid rendezvous procedures. |
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Accomplish quasi-real time data assimilation into the KDI code |
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Implement and demonstrate implicit solver |
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Demonstrate new visualization tools on model results |
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Demonstrate collaboratory methodologies to handle multiple data sets, support electronic workshops and model validation studies. |
Year 3: |
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Demonstrate real-time operation of KDI for real solar events and space weather effects. |
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"Harden" and document multi-grid, adaptive block technology for dissemination. |