Current Projects and Funding Streams

CMS provides direct-funded and un-funded support for a range of projects.

Funded

• Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Representation of Processes and Extremes in Earth System Models (AI4PEX)

  A research project that will deliver enhanced knowledge on the Earth system by integrating Earth’s Observations, artificial Intelligence, and machine Learning into Earth system modelling and analysis.

• ENES-RISe

  The ENES-RISe project (ENES-RI SERVICES: Services of the European Network for Earth System Modelling Research) aims to provide and further develop key research infrastructure services for European Earth system modeling.

• Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor

  EPOC is a 5-year research project funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme

• ESiWACE4

  Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe

• Explaining and Predicting Climate Changes and Extremes

  “Towards an Integrated Capability to Explain and Predict Regional Climate Changes” is a Horizon Europe research project that aims to address the urgent issue of rapid climate change, which has led to an increase in extreme weather events at a rate faster than current models predicted.

• FUTURA

  FUTURA: Future of Climate Change Scenarios of the Earth System, Impacts and Socio-Economic Outcomes for Assessment and AND Society

• High Resolution Climate Modelling

  The HRCM project is a long-standing collaborative project between the Met Office Hadley Centre and NCAS to use the global NWP model for climate simulations.

• Hydro-JULES

  Hydro-JULES will deliver an open-source, three dimensional model of the terrestrial water cycle to provide next generation land-surface and hydrological predictions.

• Optimal High Resolution Earth System Models for Exploring Future Climate Change

  OptimESM is developing a novel generation of Earth system models to deliver cutting-edge and policy-relevant knowledge around the consequences of global warming, including the risk of rapid change in key Earth system phenomena and regional impacts.

• PROMOTE

  Progressing Earth System Modelling for Tipping Point Early Warning Systems

Core

• CF Compliance Checker

  Development and Maintenance of the CF Checker tool which checks netCDF files comply with the CF conformance requirements and recommendations.

• cf-plot and cf-view

  cf-plot and cf-view are visualisation tools for the plotting and exploration of data from the environmental, earth and aligned sciences.

• cf-python

  cf-python, the Python cf package, is an Earth Science data analysis library that is built on a complete implementation of the CF data model.

• UKCA

  The United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols project is a collaboration between the universities of Cambridge, Leeds, Oxford, and the Met Office. Its objective is to develop, evaluate and make available a new UK community atmospheric chemistry-aerosol global model suitable for a range of topics in climate and environmental change research.