Objective
IS-ENES will develop a Virtual Earth System Modelling Resource Centre (V.E.R.C.) integrating the European Earth system models (ESMs) and their hardware, software, and data environments. The overarching goal of this e-infrastructure is to further integrate the European climate modelling community, to help the definition of a common future strategy, to ease the development of full ESMs, to foster the execution and exploitation of high-end simulations, and to support the dissemination of model results and the interaction with the climate change impact community. The V.E.R.C. encompasses models, the tools to prepare, evaluate, run, store and exploit model simulations, the access to model results and to the European high-performance computing ecosystem – in particular the EU large infrastructures DEISA2 and PRACE. The V.E.R.C. developed by IS-ENES is based on generic ICT, Grid technology and subject-specific simulation codes and software environments.
The European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES) leads IS-ENES. This network gathers the European climate and Earth system modelling community working on understanding and prediction of future climate change. This community is strongly involved in the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and provides the predictions on which EU mitigation and adaptation policies are elaborated.
IS-ENES combines expertise in Earth system modelling, in computational science, and in studies of climate change impacts. IS-ENES will provide a service on models and model results both to modelling groups and to the users of model results, especially the impact community. Joint research activities will improve the efficient use of high-performance computers, model evaluation tool sets, access to model results, and prototype climate services for the impact community. Networking activities will increase the cohesion of the European ESM community and advance a coherent European Network for Earth System modelling.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
75794 Paris
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Participants (17)
80539 Munchen
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31057 Toulouse Cedex
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20146 Hamburg
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00560 Helsinki
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M13 9PL Manchester
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10679 Athens
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SN2 1SZ SWINDON
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73100 Lecce
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EX1 3PB Exeter
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3731 GA De Bilt
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94165 Saint Mande Cedex
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601 76 NORRKOEPING
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581 83 Linkoping
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08034 Barcelona
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6708 PB Wageningen
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013686 Bucuresti
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51147 Koln
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