Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform (CHyMP)

Community modeling -- the development, distribution and technical support of common simulation software designed to serve the diverse needs of a community, and to be advanced through contributions from the community -- has a rich tradition in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences, but less so in hydrology. Perhaps the best-known community modeling effort in the geosciences is based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR has a long history of developing, maintaining and supporting community atmosphere, ocean, land-surface and coupled climate models. These models supply the necessary simulation environment for numerous research groups around the world, and have provided the foundation for scores of fundamental scientific advances over the past three decades. The contributions of these models to weather, climate and global change research cannot be overstated.