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PRISM started as a European project (EU-FP5 EESD program) in Dec 2001 and continued until Nov 2004. Coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, 22 leading climate research institutes and computer vendors were involved. A central objective in PRISM was the development of a flexible model structure with interchangable model components exchanging information through standard interfaces with a universal coupler or directly with the other model components.
NEC Deutschland GmbH and NLE-IT was involved in the central task to provide OASIS4, a software package and a model technical interface to manage the coupling (data exchange) between any two or more climate component models and the I/O of each individual climate component. Work covered at NEC Deutschland GmbH in particular encompassed the
The development and support of OASIS4 is now continued under the umbrella of the PRISM Support Initiative in close collaboration with CERFACS.
Prototypes of the OASIS4 software are available and existing state-of-art models have been and are interfaced with OASIS4 at NLE-IT, among them MOM4, NEMO (former called OPA), and the regional arctic ocean and atmosphere models operated at the Rossby Center at SMHI. Apart from these efforts the OASIS4 software is used within the workpackage on Global Reactive Gases Subproject (GRG) of the Global and regional Earth-system (Atmosphere) Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data (GEMS) project and the CICLE project.
