Unified Workflow Tools and Framework: An Update

The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Unified Workflow (UW) Team has been developing and implementing a set of tools and a framework for the Unified Forecast System (UFS). Together, the tools and framework will ultimately unify the user experience across many Applications and allow users to specify their own, unique experiments, while also building toward scientific solutions that are directly translatable to NOAA operational systems.

The UW Tools Python package includes various multipurpose generic workflow tools accessible from either the command line or a Python API. The tools will help the user accomplish tasks that range from simply filling in a template with user-defined values, to running a single UFS component, all the way to configuring an entire experiment with a complicated, flexible set of tasks and dependencies. The UW Framework refers to how these tools will work together to give a common user experience in setting up an experiment and running it with familiar workflow managers.

In this talk, we give an overview of the progress made toward our main goals: developing the tools and framework, and their first implementations in UFS Applications.