As part of the overall MAP "Modeling Environment," or MAPME, access to selected funded modeling software is being provided to investigators.

The goal of MAPME is to integrate research modeling research activities to focus efforts among NASA crosscutting themes. Over the tenure of the grants, the MAP program will enhance ESMF-compliant modeling and assimilation resources to support the broader research programs of the Science Mission Directorate and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is anticipated that appropriate elements residing in the multi-investigator proposals will converge into shared software environments.

NASA encourages and anticipates increased collaboration across its scientific modeling fields and will provide support for such collaboration through NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Software Integration and Visualization Office (SIVO) and other resources provided by the MAP program. Collaboration with larger multi-investigator MAP development efforts is defined at two levels of interaction: "Model/Component Collaborators" and "External Investigators."

Collaborators work in concert with the core software development teams and intend to integrate components into core model elements. External investigators will wish to download software to execute in their own environments. Investigators will be able to obtain software by following the links on the left of this page.

Please note that the individual project-managed web sites contain important information about modeling software, including documentation and user manuals and necessary usage agreements. These project sites also contain links to important publications that may be useful to investigators.

In addition, SIVO has also created a web collaboration tool for the model development community. Known as Modeling Guru, model developers can interact with model software engineering experts or learn to run modeling experiments using SIVO's workflow tools. For assistance deploying MAP software, please contact SIVO.