A Workflow Management System for Automating Weather and Climate Simulations

One of the challenges of modeling and simulating weather and climate phenomena is the laborious process of running the various codes that are required to carry out a simulation. For example, to perform a single end-to-end run of a weather simulation, a scientist must often run several data preprocessing and assimilation programs, the model code, several post processing programs, codes to produce visualizations, and at least one forecast verification program.