Community Earth System Model
Summary
Year of implementation: 2010
Architecture: Standalone
FOSS & Licensing: Yes, BSD
Geographical Coverage: Global
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Component
Planet
Official site : Community Earth System Model
General
The primary goal of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) project is to develop a state-of-the-art climate model and to use it to perform the best possible science to understand climate variability and global change. They strive to build a CESM community of users who are interested in participating in this project.
Objectives
Enhance capability for Earth system modeling of the physical climate system coupled with chemistry, biogeochemistry, biology and human systems.
Improve model representation of Earth system processes through the incorporation of new components, parameterizations and dynamical cores.
Use existing and new observations to test Earth system models at a process level and quantify the relative importance of different feedbacks.
Enable CESM community to conduct competitive climate research on a full range of computing platforms, through specific software developments and by hosting visitors and training tutorials.
Provide relevant datasets to the greater climate research community, accompanied by the collective knowledge gained from our experience.
Contribute knowledge to national and international assessments (e.g. IPCC).