Links and References

Design of the frameworks

• CSDMS Design article from Computers and Geosciences
• Delta Shell design article from Proceedings of the 2010 International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Congress
• The BMI Spec. Note that this is newer than the BMI implantation in DIMR and Delta Shell.

Data Standards and Structures

• CSDMS Standard Names
• The Open Earth implementation of BMI is the version that we have to use to run our models with DIMR or through the BasicModelInterfaceLibarary class in Delta Shell.
• Functional Coverages describes an important Deltares API
• Unidata’s Common Data Model mapping to the ISO 19123 Data Model provides more information about using CDM, the data model underlying netCDF, to represent coverages

Examples & Tutorials

• Delta Shell plugin tutorial
• CSDMS on GitHub