Climate Modeling Groups
Model Intercomparison and Evaluation
Climate Impact Research
Some Documents

Climate Modeling Groups

• Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)
  CLIVAR, is an international research programme addressing many issues of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. As part of the wider World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) CLIVAR is giving insights into the working of the climate system and hence answers to important questions. WCRP works in partnership with the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).
• Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg
• Global Change and Climate Modeling at the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (CERFACS), Toulouse
• Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Bracknell, UK.
• UK Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme (UGAMP)

UGAMP, funded by The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is helping to strengthen the role of the UK universities in the area of numerical modelling of the large scale atmosphere.
• CCSR/NIES AGCM
  Global Climate Model of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics in the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies in collaboration with Center for Climate System Research , University of Tokyo.
• Climate Modelling Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Scarborough College University of Toronto
• Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics Program (CHAMMP) of the DOE is interested in the development of new mathematical methods for for oceanic and atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs).
• High-Performance Global Climate Modeling at LLNL
• NASA Langley Atmospheric Modeling Group
• NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Division
• NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3)
  The NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3) is a stable, efficient, documented, state of the art atmospheric general circulation model designed for climate research on high-speed supercomputers and select upper-end workstations. CCM3 is a free resource for scientists and graduate students in a wide array of specialties to use in conducting global modeling experiments in their particular area of expertise without spending decades of their careers developing a complete global climate model of this complexity.
• Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
  The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) is a fully-coupled, global climate model that provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states.
• Distributed Climate System Laboratory
  An NSF project to combine the capabilities of the GCRP and HPCC to develop and distributed climate system model (DSCM).
• NOOA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)

Model Intercomparison and Evaluation

• PCMDI
  The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) was established in 1989 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. PCMDI's principal mission is to develop improved methods and tools for the diagnosis, validation and intercomparison of global climate models.
  • Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
    CMIP, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, is the analog of AMIP for global coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. CMIP began in 1995 under the auspices of the Working Group on Coupled Models (WGCM) of CLIVAR.

Climate Impact Research

• Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
• Environmental Change Network
• Climatic Impacts Centre (CIC) (Macquarie University, Sidney)
• Climate Research Unit (University of East Anglia, Norwich)
• McGill - Centre for Climate and Global Change Research

Some Documents

• Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
  A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability over the last 400 years.