The new WCRP Core Project on Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) held a virtual workshop on “The Future of Climate Modelling”, on 21-24 March.
The final agenda can be accessed here.
Presentations
Session - Challenges of Climate Modelling
- Ultra-high resolution modelling - Ruby Leung (USA)
- Next generation climate modelling - Tim Palmer (UK)
- Challenges in Earth System Modelling - Elena Shevliakova (USA)
- Hydrological /regional modelling - Sabine Attinger (Germany)
- IPCC AR6 - June-Yi Lee (South Korea) and Baylor Fox Kemper (USA)
- CMIP - successes and where to next? - Jean-Francois Lamarque (USA) and Matthew Mizielinski (UK)
- Greening of climate modelling - Pierre Friedlingstein (UK)
Session - Societal Needs for Climate Information
- Health impacts - Kristi Ebi (USA)
- Carbon budgets and communications - Rob McSweeney (UK)
- Mitigation (IPCC Working Group III) - Joeri Rogelj (UK) and Malte Meinshausen (Australia)
- Impacts and adaptation (IPCC Working Group II) - Chris Lennard (South Africa)
- Communities in the Global South - Mandira Shrestha (Nepal)
Session - Science and Technology – exciting and relevant science that can be done using Earth System Models
- High resolution models - Daniel Klocke (Germany)
- Composition-climate models - Stephanie Fiedler (Germany)
- Model emulation/simple models/reduced complexity model - Zeb Nicholls (Australia)
- Societal decision making and model integration - Claudia Tebaldi (USA)
- From climate change to socio-economic impacts - Katja Frieler (Germany)
- Model improvement - Tomoki Miyakawa (Japan)
- Model Evaluation - Paul Durack (USA)
- Large Ensembles - Nicola Maher (USA)
- Processes that are currently missing in the models - Nick Golledge (New Zealand)
Session - Technology and Accessibility
- AI in Climate Science- Libby Barnes (USA)
- Computing hardware development - Hisashi Yashiro (Japan)
- Model development in South Africa and Southern Hemisphere - Francois Engelbrecht (South Africa)
- Towards minimising carbon footprint of climate modelling: Modelling centre perspective - Mario Acosta (Spain)
- Novel climate modelling approaches - Tapio Schneider (USA)
Youtube links
The workshop was streamed live on the WCRP Youtube channel.
- Day 1 (21st March) - https://youtu.be/QEex28orbpM
- Day 2 (22nd March) - https://youtu.be/j1BHklM6CaM
- Day 3 (23rd March) - https://youtu.be/jOuCS3nkqvg
- Day 4 (24th March) - https://youtu.be/ZowWN22VmU8