OpenMI

1. OpenMI Symposium - Welcome
Delft Software Days, 31st October 2014
Q.K.Harpham and R.V.Moore

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Grand Challenges for Earth
System Science
To “deliver knowledge to enable sustainable
development, poverty eradication, and
environmental protection in the face of global
change”.
International Council for Science Press Release, 11 Nov 2010
“a consensus list of the highest priorities for
Earth system research”.
Dr Walt Reid, Task Team Chair
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Grand Challenges for Earth
System Science
Forecasting—Improve the usefulness of
forecasts of future environmental conditions
and their consequences for people.
Observing—Develop, enhance and integrate
the observation systems needed to manage
global and regional environmental change.
International Council for Science Press Release, 11 Nov 2010
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Grand Challenges for Earth
System Science
Confining—Determine how to anticipate,
recognize, avoid and manage disruptive global
environmental change.
Responding—Determine what institutional,
economic and behavioural changes can enable
effective steps toward global sustainability.
International Council for Science Press Release, 11 Nov 2010
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Grand Challenges for Earth
System Science
Innovating—Encourage innovation (coupled
with sound mechanisms for evaluation) in
developing technological, policy and social
responses to achieve global sustainability.
International Council for Science Press Release, 11 Nov 2010
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Grand Challenges for Earth
System Science
Addressing these challenges will require new
research capacity, … , and a balanced mix of
disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Dr Walt Reid, Task Team Chair
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The importance of understanding the world and all
the events and activities within it as a set of
interconnected, interacting processes is now
widely recognised.
Roger Moore, Former Chair, OpenMI Association
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The Journey So Far…
 2005 HarmonIT Project Completes Including OpenMI Version 1.0;
 2008 FluidEarth 1.0 for OpenMI 1.4;
 2010 OpenMI LIFE Project Releases OpenMI Version 2.0;
 2012 FluidEarth 2.0;
 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium Vote in Favour of Accrediting
OpenMI 2.0;
 2014 FluidEarth 2.2 – stable and complete;
 2014 OpenMI Symposium, Delft!
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Take-up
OpenMI 2.0 Take-up
 OGC Standardisation;
 Since late 2012 OpenMI 2.0 Download Statistics:
 2513 Downloads;
 71 Countries (China (1172), UK, USA, Kazakhstan, Iraq);
 Well over 100 publications.
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FluidEarth 2 Take-up
 FluidEarth Downloads since release in late 2012;
 618 Downloads;
 37 Countries (China, UK, India, USA, South Africa, Ukraine).
 2013 FluidEarth eLearning Statistics:
 870 Sessions, 45 Countries;
 8:47 Average Duration.
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The Plan for Today: Morning
Morning: technical features of OpenMI and the
relationship between OpenMI and other model
coupling standards:-
 Erich Rome (Fraunhofer): CIPRNet and OpenMI, Federated
modelling of Critical Infrastructure (DIESIS project);
 Bert Jagers & Stef Hummel (Deltares): OpenMI and other model
coupling standards;
 Wim Huiskamp (TNO): Standards for critical infrastructure
modelling: HLA;
 Antonio Di Pietro (ENEA): Standards for critical infrastructure
modelling: i2Sim;
 Andreas Burzel (Deltares) and all: Discussion: What can we learn
from each other?
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The Plan for Today: Afternoon
Afternoon: OpenMI applications and tools:-
 Quillon Harpham / Roger Moore (OA): OpenMI applications and
tools, FluidEarth;
 Bernhard Becker and Geert Prinsen (Deltares): A selection of
water related applications of OpenMI;
 Niels de Hulster (Arcadis), Siebe Bosch (Hydroconsult) and
Klaas-Jan van Heeringen (Deltares): An OpenMI composition with
channel flow and real-time control modelling for a Dutch polder
system;
 Andrew Hughes (BGS): Integrated Environmental Modelling
applied to the Thames Basin, UK: Linking models using OpenMI
to allow multi-scale simulation of groundwater processes;
 Moritz Kreyenschulte (RWTH Aachen), Daniel Bachmann
(Deltares): An operational forecasting system for subsurface
floods in the city of Cologne.
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11. Thank you
Q.K.Harpham and R.V.Moore
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