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On November 2-3, 2011,  both the Maryland and North Carolina divisions of CICS met in what was their 2nd Annual CICS Science Meeting at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. For two days, scientists from both groups collaborated and gave presentations on current climate models and initiatives as well as goals and policies of CICS. The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, better known as CICS, is made up of two distinct branches of the organization, one …

250 – Integration of FEWS-NET into the Land Information System
Principal Investigator(s): B. Wind

A USGS famine early warning system (FEWS-NET) drought model, Water Requirement Satisfaction Index (WRSI), stood to benefit from being integrated into NASA (Code 614.3) ‘s Land Information System (LIS), which is a software framework for high performance land surface modeling and data assimilation. LIS brings to bear a host of flexible modeling and computing capabilities for those models privileged enough to be integrated into the LIS framework. However, LIS is a general-purpose Fortran (LINUX/UNIX) batch-queue submission shell executable. Whereas, USGS’s most up-to-the-minute implementation of WRSI was a custom Visual Basic .Net (Windows) graphical user interactive (GUI) application. A phased conversion and integration process was required.