Project Sponsors

• The current Earth System Modeling projects are sponsored by the DOE Office of Science SciDAC Program. This program is titled Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, is exploring and developing the third leg of modern science - simulation - as a paradigm complementing experiment and theory. Funding for these projects is primarily for model development and comes from the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Climate Research Division.
• The application of the models falls into the applied earth sciences area and takes on a variety of forms requiring specialized techniques of data assimilation, and data analysis. Our sponsors for this area are NASA Earth Missions as well as DOE OBER.
• Mathematical aspects of our modeling work are partially sponsored by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
• Work on GCM Downscaling and Economic Impacts is supported by the ORNL LDRD program.
• An old link that we are trying to keep alive is from the DOE CHAMMP program that started many of the research directions in climate modeling in the early 1990's. Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics (CHAMMP)