Summary
Atlas is a ECMWF framework for parallel data-structures supporting unstructured grids and function spaces.
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The Atlantic Ocean is named after Atlas (meaning Sea of Atlas). See Wikipedia.
PS -- Atlas is not an acronym, so it should not be capitalized.
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Applications
- PantaRhei project -- researching an alternative more scalable dynamical core based on anunstructured edge based finite volume scheme.
- MIR -- development of new interpolation software, capable of any to any grid interpolation.