Programming for the Planet @propl.dev · Jun 15 1 / 4
Mark Piper works with @csdms.bsky.social to do atmospheric science and promote open source software. They focus on model coupling which is crucial to building ensembles of climate predictions. The BMI is a language agnostic, self-describing and extensible method to use for this
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BMI has about thirty functions that range from controlling how the model runs, how its initialised/finalised, how timesteps works, extracting and sampling values. But not all functions need to be implemented and are fairly easy to write. It's being widely used in the community now!