The Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics (CHAMMP) Program, Sponsored by the Environmental Sciences Division of the U. S. Department of Energy's Office of Health and Environmental Research Newsletter - December 1994 Contact: Dave Bader dc_bader@pnl.gov 202-646-7801 (Battelle) 301-903-4328 (DOE HQ) 1995 CHAMMP Science Team and Model Development Meetings The next CHAMMP Science Team and Model Development Meetings are tentatively scheduled for late September in the Washington, DC, area. With the ARM meeting in March and the AMIP meeting in May, it is best to hold the CHAMMP meetings later. This will also allow the new science team projects some time to get started. All CHAMMP Science Team and Model Development Principal Investigators should plan to attend. We are holding the meetings near Washington to maximize the involvement of the Environmental Science Division (ESD) and communicate the progress of the program. Model Development Program Plans are underway for the development of coupled atmosphere-ocean models based on the component models developed under the first phase of CHAMMP. The coupling of the LANL POP ocean model with the parallel version of the NCAR CCM2 on the CM-5 at LANL will be done first. Following this initial effort, we plan to couple POP to the NCAR/ORNL/ANL PCCM2 on the Intel Paragon. Coupling POP with the finite difference atmospheric codes developed at LLNL, UCLA and CSU should begin by next summer. Computational and theoretical aspects of coupling atmospheric models to an eddy-resolving ocean model on MPP machines is the focus of the CHAMMP effort, which is complementary to other coupling projects underway at NCAR, GFDL and other institutions. No CHAMMP Proposal Solicitation in Fiscal Year 1995 Budget constraints have eliminated the possibility of a proposal solicitation for FY 1995 funds. Current CHAMMP investigators who have projects that are scheduled to be renewed will have an opportunity to propose work for continued funding. Renewal projects are those whose multi-year funding period ends before September 30, 1995. These investigators will be contacted separately regarding the renewal process. This DOES NOT involve multi-year projects that require a progress report for second and third year funding of a multi-year grant that extends beyond September 30, 1995. The Washington Rumor Mill Press accounts and rampant rumors about the changes brought about by November's elections and the subsequent effects on the Department of Energy and the US Global Change Research Program are causing anxiety among many researchers. There does not appear to be any immediate effect on ESD's climate modeling programs (including CHAMMP) from all of this commotion. The picture should be much clearer by late spring when the results of an internal DOE organizational review are complete and the President's budget request for 1996 is submitted to Congress. I will continue to pass along the periodic electronic newsletters issued by OHER to everyone on the CHAMMP mailing list.