IV. Conclusion.
PALM and Pre-PALM is a very efficient interface,
allowing comunication between different programs and subroutines at the
right time. This allows the devellopment of different sub-programs by many
programmers, the interface between these codes being very easy to implement.
It also allows module decomposition, thus letting the user change only
one piece of code without changing the rest. It can also help the devellopers
to have a better overview of their program structure.It makes data assimilation
very simple to code and understand.
Data assimilation is also a very powerful tool,
in areas where the simulation is done at the same time as observations
are made (meteorology, missile guiding...) It alows to have better predictions
of the behavior of a system without having very precise data about its
initial state, but some complementary information about the evolution of
the system.