CESM Mission

"The primary goal of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) project is to develop a state-of-the-art climate model and to use it to perform the best possible science to understand climate variability and global change. We will strive to build a CESM community of users who are interested in participating in this project."

 

Administration of the Community Earth System Model

The CESM Advisory Board (CAB) will serve as an advisory committee reporting to the CESM Scientific Steering Committee, NSF Program Director, NCAR Director, and UCAR President. Membership in the CAB will come from university faculty and staff, staff members of national laboratories, and scientists from foreign universities, laboratories, and centers.

The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) will provide scientific leadership for the CESM project, including oversight of activities of working groups, coordination of model experiments, decision making on model definition and development.

The detailed work on various aspects of CESM will be done in working groups. These working groups will consist of scientists who come together to work on topics on which they share common interest.

CESM Project

The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is a fully-coupled, global climate model that provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states.

CESM is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Administration of the CESM is maintained by the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

CESM Leadership