Climate-Science Computational End Station Development and Grand Challenge Team

The Climate Science Computational End Station (CCES) will predict future climates using scenarios of anthropogenic emissions and other changes resulting from energy policies options. CCES will also improve the scientific basis, accuracy and fidelity of climate models, delivering climate change simulations that directly inform national science policy, thereby contributing to the DOE, NSF and NASA science missions. CCES will advance climate science through both an aggressive model development activity and an extensive suite of climate simulations. Advanced computational simulation of the Earth System is built on the successful interagency collaboration of NSF and DOE in developing the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), collaboration with NASA in carbon data assimilation, and university partners with expertise in computational climate research. Of particular importance is the correct simulation of the global carbon cycle and its feedbacks to the climate system, including its variability and modulation by ocean and land ecosystems. Continuing model development and extensive testing of the CCSM system to include recent new knowledge about such processes is at the cutting edge of climate science research and is a principal focus of the CCES.