Research Team

Principal Investigator: Tim Lenton (UEA).

Co-Investigators: Paul Valdes (Bristol), John Shepherd, Bob Marsh, Peter Challenor (SOC), John Gurd, Graham Riley, Rupert Ford (Manchester CNC), Eric Guilyardi (Reading), Simon Cox (Southampton e-Science Centre), Rachel Warren (Tyndall Centre, UEA).

Project Partners: John Darlington (London e-Science Centre), James Annan and Julia Hargreaves (FRCGC), Neil Edwards (Bern), Andy Ridgwell (UBC), Jonathan Gregory (Reading).

Relationship to other e-Science proposals and UK research: The complementary nature of the GENIEfy and SIAMESE projects is depicted in the earlier Figure. SIAMESE aims to develop compatibility between PRISM and the Met Office FLUME framework and will thus aid modularity and traceability among a spectrum of full-complexity Hadley Centre models, whilst we tackle modularity of faster GENIE ESMs, traceability among them, and especially traceability to the SIAMESE spectrum. The two projects overlap at the FAMOUS and HadCM3 resolutions enabling synergy between them. GENIEfy also complements e-JULES, which will produce a structure to allow traceable land surface models of different complexity and scale to be developed and evaluated. In e-JULES, Manchester CNC will investigate producing 'composite' land surface models for use in frameworks including the one we propose. Our proposed work on ocean traceability complements ongoing research in RAPID and Tyndall, and Jonathon Gregory's proposed RAPID Round 2 project to inter-compare the THC in different models

International links and competitiveness: We have strong international collaborations with researchers at the Frontier Research Centre for Global Change in Japan, University of Bern in Switzerland, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and across the PRISM and CIAS networks. We will build a strong link to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany through exchange visits and swapping of model components. Our current GENIE EMICs are state-of-the-art and we are proposing to improve their traceability to world-leading GCM components. We will build on Manchester CNC and PRISM links to the US Earth System Modelling Framework (ESMF) (http://www.esmf.ucar.edu/) and thus contribute to the development of internationally compatible modelling frameworks and standards. We will also ensure that our work continues to link to international Grid organisations (e.g. Global Grid Forum for which Simon Cox is co-chair of applications working group).

Deliverables

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