Project
UK Earth System Modelling (UKESM)
Project Start: April 2017 | Project End: March 2021
Project Funder: NERC Cross-centre National Capability
Principal Investigator: Jerry Blackford
Other Participants: Dr Gennadi Lessin, Dr Lee de Mora, Dr Luca Polimene, Dr Yuri Artioli, Jerry Blackford, Professor Icarus Allen
Project Website: http://www.ukesm.ac.uk/
Global climate change is one of the leading environmental threats facing mankind. To develop appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies requires accurate projections of the future state of the Earth’s climate.
To address the need to simulate both the changing global climate and the carbon cycle response to a changing climate and changing atmospheric composition, we are developing the 1st UK Earth system model, based on the core physical GCM, HadGEM3, developed at the Met Office. This development is a major collaboration between NERC centres and the Met Office, integrating a large body of core research and development into a single, world-leading ESM.