The model has already been integrated into the next generation of the global land model used for climate simulations by the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a major
national climate modeling center.
(Full disclosure, I spoke to him a couple of times for this article and I'm working on tuning description paper for the
US climate modeling centers).
It could be argued that the core work done at Goddard — particularly its climate modeling — is redundant, for the United States has two other
major climate modeling centers, and there are more than 30 worldwide.
With the emerging consensus that a major La Nina event would develop,
climate modeling centers had already warned in June 2010 of potentially severe drought conditions at the Horn of Africa.»