Implement Basic Model Interface (BMI)?

[aufdenkampe]

Thank your for developing this Python wrapper library for GLM-AED!

Our team has long appreciated the fantastic capabilities of GLM-AED and long wanted to couple it to some of our data input and analysis workflows in Python. This repo does that, and we're excited to start using it.

One of our stretch goals is to couple GLM-AED with other models using the Basic Model Interface (BMI), which has been adopted by many federal agencies in recent years for coupling domain models. NOAA has decided to use BMI for the Next Gen National Water Model (NWM v4) and USGS has already implemented BMI for many of its models (MODFLOW, PHREEQC, PRMS, etc.).

Do you have any plans or interest in implementing BMI?

cc: @steveskrip, @shannarucker, @caitlinlulay

[gilesknight]

Hi @aufdenkampe, thanks for your comments!

Implementing BMI is of interest, but it currently falls outside the scope of what glm-py can wrap. Many of the BMI functions would require incorporating them into GLM itself and then extending that functionality to glm-py. I'll cc in @matthipsey here, who leads the development of GLM and can comment further.