Contours representing ttie wind flow in 

 the middle atmosphere, produced by a 

 weather forecast model running on the 

 Cray Y-MP8 at NCAA's National 

 Meteorological Center, superimposed 

 on a NCAA GOES satellite infrared 

 cloud image. 



menting a layered software approach to support the 

 portability of such applications between various scalable 

 systems and networks of workstations, and has taken 

 the initial steps toward implementing a meteorological 

 software library using this approach. 



GFDL has solicited technical input from massively paral- 

 lel computer vendors through a public comment process 

 as part of its effort to redesign its primary atmospheric 

 climate model to a suitable parallel design. The result- 

 ing technical collaborations are leading to a more effec- 

 tive code design for this and other models that are being 

 rewritten for parallel systems. 



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