SDL Climate Science

AIRS instrument shows ring-shaped waves due to the eruption of the Tonga volcano in January 2022.
  • Anthropogenic climate change poses a major risk for the Earth's ecosystem and is a threat for the means of livelihood for future generations.
  • Reliably predicting climate change is a grand challenge for the 21st century. Quantative understanding of the interactions of the various chemical and dynamical processes in the Earth's atmosphere is one of the main objectives of climate research.
  • Numerical Earth system models are indispensable tools to assess climate change. Comprehensive coupled models allow to study the manifold feedback mechanisms occurring in the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
  • The development and maintenance of Earth system models is a challenge not only for scientists, who study the complex processes, but also for software engineers, who have to maintain efficiency of sophisticated algorithms with high demands on computational power, inter-process communication, and data transfer and storage.
  • The Simulation and Data Laboratory Climate Science provides support for a community of scientific institutions that are internationally known for their expertise on numerical modelling of the Earth system and predicting climate change.

Collaboration frameworks

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JointLab Exascale Earth System Modeling

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Center for Advanced Simulation and Analytics (CASA)

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Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis (CESOC)

Projects

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ESiWACE3

Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe - Phase 3

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WarmWorld

Development, porting, and optimization of a high-scaled climate model for global simulations on future computing architectures

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ExaOcean

Performance improvements of the ICON-O ocean model on heterogeneous exascale supercomputers using machine learning methods

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ADAPTEX

Adaptive earth system modeling with significantly reduced computation time for exascale supercomputers

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natESM

A strategy for the future and community

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DETECT

Regional Climate Change: Disentangling the Role of Land Use and Water Management (since 2022)

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PreWarmWorld

PreWarmWorld will demonstrate prototype components as the first steps of a blueprint (initial design choices) to enable further development of the ICON model as well as refinement of the blueprint, and its successive implementation at finer levels of granularity. (since 2021)

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Innopool Booster

Innopool Booster (associated with JointLab)

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WAVE

NASA project "Wave-induced Atmospheric Variability Enterprise (WAVE)" (since 2020)

PEGASUS

NERC project "Planetary and Gravity Waves as Drivers of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (PEGASUS)" (since 2019)

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ISSI

ISSI project "New Quantitative Constraints on Orographic Gravity Wave Stress and Drag" (since 2018)

Last Modified: 21.03.2023