RFP Attachment 2 - MMAS II Technical Data Package 15 May 24.pdf

Air Force Technical Applications Center

Meteorological Modeling, Analysis, and Subject Matter Expertise Services (MMAS) II

24th Analysis Squadron Meteorological Modeling and Analysis Flight (24

ANS/ANM)

MMAS II Tools and Supporting Software & Hardware

MMAS II Element Description Associated Software & Hardware

AFTAC’s Rapid-GPU Urban Modeling System

(ARGUS)

System which runs AFTAC’s urban-scale meteorological and transport and dispersion models

Software: (WebTaK, Python, SingularityCE/Apptainer, JOULES, GeoServer)

Hardware: (HPC, Nvidia GPU)

Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model Software used for regional meteorological modeling Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5) Hardware: (HPC)

Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model

Software used for atmospheric transport and dispersion Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5, ioapi, eccodes) Hardware: (HPC)

EMS Decision Aid Product Tool (EDAPT) System used to run the atmospheric transport and dispersion puff model SCIPUFF which is composed of SCIPUFF, EDAPT Analyst, SCIMON, SCIPP, SCIPOST, and EPM applications

Software (Fortran, Microsoft .NET, Python 3.6+ , C++) Hardware: (HPC)

Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) Software used for future regional and global meteorological modeling

Software: (Fortran, C, NetCDF, METIS, Gklib) Hardware: (HPC)

Model Evaluation Toolkit (MET) Software used to evaluate the statistics of meteorological data produced from WRF

Software (Fortran, C) Hardware: (HPC)

Unified Post Processor (UPP) Software used to post-process meteorological data produced from WRF

Software (Fortran, C) Hardware: (HPC)

HYSPLIT Analysis and Research Toolkit

(HART)

System which runs the HYSPLIT atmospheric transport and dispersion model

Software: (WebTaK, Python, SingularityCE/Apptainer, HYSPIT)

Hardware: (HPC)

MMAS II (24th ANS) HPC System Requirements

Compute Server (Current):

Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7 List foundational and support software (EPEL) Java SDK version 1.8+, Python 2 and 3, eccodes, NCL, Java, JavaScript, Ada, Fortran 90, Fortran 77, C, C++, Rust, Go, Lua, Perl, Shells, Ruby, Groovy, SAS, SQL Developer, Matlab, Julia, LFS, PNFS, HDF5, NetCDF, Grib Tools, GDAL, Oracle Client, ioAPI, Apptainer/SingularityCE.

24th ANS AFTAC’s Rapid-GPU Urban Modeling System (ARGUS) ARGUS is a TaK-based, cross-platform urban-scale modeling system, broken into two major components that communicate across the WebTaK enterprise sync handler:

Joules- Back-end numerical urban-scale model.

User Interface - Access, analyze, and manage model results through Graphical User Interfaces.

The system includes multiple user interfaces and several server components that allow data access and management over an Intranet environment comprised of UNIX-based servers and workstations and Microsoft Windows personal computers.

Software in Development Software (WebTaK, Python 3, Apptainer/SingularityCE, GeoServer, JOULES)

Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model

The WRF is a numerical weather prediction model, and is comprised of four components:

WRF model WPS preprocessor WRFDA, WRF ensemble system OBSGRID, observation processing software

Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5, zlib, jasper, libpng)

Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model

HYSPLIT model is comprised of two components:

Transport and dispersion model Meteorological data converters

Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5, ioapi, eccodes)

EMS Decision Aid Product Tool (EDAPT)

EDAPT is comprised of different components that run the puff transport and dispersion model, SCIPUFF:

SCIPUFF -- Second-order Closure Integrated PUFF model -- Core transport and dispersion model.

EDAPT Analyst -- User interface that visualizes and produces outputs from SCIPUFF.

SCIMON -- Monitors progress of SCIPUFF and WRF runs.

SCIPP -- Re-grids the sampler grid from SCIPUFF output.

SCIPOST -- Post-process SCIPUFF output.

EPM -- Windows/python api to send communications from Windows to the UNIX HPC.

Software (Fortran, Microsoft .NET, Python 3.6+ , C++)

Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)

The MPAS is a next generation numerical weather prediction model.

Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5, Gklib, openblas)

Model Evaluation Toolkit (MET)

MET is a software used to run weather model statistics from WRF Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5)

Unified Post Processor (UPP)

UPP is a software used to post-process weather model output from WRF Software (Fortran, C, NetCDF, HDF5)

HYSPLIT Analysis and Research Toolkit (HART)

HART is a TaK-based, cross-platform transport and dispersion modeling system, broken into two major components that communicate across the WebTaK enterprise sync handler:

HYSPLIT- Transport and dispersion model.

User Interface - Access, analyze, and manage model results through Graphical User Interfaces.

The system includes multiple user interfaces and several server components that allow data access and management over an Intranet environment comprised of UNIX-based servers and workstations and Microsoft Windows personal computers.

Software in Development Software (WebTaK, Python 3, Apptainer/SingularityCE, HYSPLIT)