Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C515912/1
GENIEfy: creating a Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling framework for the community.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor TM Lenton, NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), NERC Strategic Research Division
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor P Challenor, University of Exeter, Mathematics and Statistics
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr RW Ford, STFC - Laboratories, The Hartree Centre
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor E Guilyardi, University of Reading, Meteorology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor R Marsh, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor JR Gurd, The University of Manchester, Computer Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr O Jones, Bournemouth University, Business Management
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr GD Riley, The University of Manchester, Computer Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J G Shepherd, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor P Valdes, University of Bristol, Geographical Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor R Warren, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Grant held at:
- NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), NERC Strategic Research Division
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Atmospheric
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Climate & Climate Change
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Abstract:
- The GENIE project's aim is to build simplified and faster-running models of the Earth's climate system, and make them easier to use and more widely available to other people who want & need to use them. State-of-the-art climate models (such as the excellent Hadley Centre model) work on quite detailed scales in both space and time, and are consequently big and slow, and cannot be used to simulate more than a few centuries of climate on anything other than a super-computer, and even so may take months to give results. We aim to model the climate for many thousands of years, because the climate of the Earth has undergone major and dramatic climate changes (including ice ages) in the past, over periods of many thousands (and even millions) of years, and we need to understand these so that we can model future climate with more confidence. And we aim to do this using more widely available computers (including top-end PCs) so that more scientists who are not computer experts can explore their ideas. To build such models which run thousands of times faster, we have to work with coarser grids, giving us less detailed results, and also use simplified versions of the physical, chemical and biological processes which interact to control the climate. The price of this is that we expect less accurate results, but we can afford to do large numbers of runs to compare the results, and so find out how much simplification we can tolerate, and how accurate the answers are, which is almost impossible with the big models. In the first phase of GENIE we have successfully built a small family of such simplified models and used advanced computational methods to tune' them to real world data, and to attack difficult questions about their reliance on things that we do not know very well. We now aim to build on this; (1) to try to find out how much detail is really needed for various levels of accuracy; (2) to create links between our models of the climate and models of technological development and the economy; (3) to make our models more similar to the big mainstream models (and so make it easier to compare results with them); (4) to make them better and even faster; and (5) to make them much more easily & widely usable by people other than their creators. We shall do this by exploiting the advanced software and computing technology which makes powerful computer resources available over the internet.
- Period of Award:
- 1 Sep 2005 - 31 Aug 2008
- Value:
- £343,506 Split Award
Authorised funds only
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C515912/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- E-Science
This grant award has a total value of £343,506
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £12,410 | £206,936 | £12,410 | £111,751 |
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