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Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system model |
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Overview
The project will deliver both a flexible Grid-based architecture, which will provide substantial long-term benefits to the Earth system modelling community, and also new scientific understanding from versions of the ESM generated and applied in the project. Our scientific focus is on long-term and paleo-climate change, especially through the last glacial maximum (~21kyr BP) to the present interglacial, and the future long-term response of the Earth system to human activities. A realistic ESM for this purpose must include models of the atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, marine sediments, land surface, vegetation and soil, ice sheets and the energy, biogeochemical and hydrological cycling within and between components.