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CCS: Institutes: CCRI: Background: Thrust of CCS-CCRI

• Key Science Question
• Thrust of CCS-CCRI
• Challenges
• Resources of CCS
• Next Steps
• Enabling National Science Goals
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Thrust of CCS - CCRI

There is an urgent national and international need to understand the liklihood of significant climate change and the potential consequences of that change. The international assessment community, policymakers and the public need predictions of future climate to assess the impacts of climate change on domestic and international economies.

To address this urgency and to meet the needs of researchers and assessment scientists, CCS-CCRI will

• Provide the computational infrastructure for extended climate simulations that couple atmospheric, ocean, and land processes, especially carbon-climate processes; predict regional climate at 10km resolution; simulate extreme event (e.g., hurricanes, floods); and, predict and quantify uncertainties in climate variables for use in the analysis of climate change impacts.


• Work with other research institutions to interpret and improve climate simulations.


• Be the testing ground for applying new, innovative computer software engineering applications to advance and accelerate climate modeling.


• Provide the focus for national and international climate assessment activities using state-of-the-art climate models for a variety of future climate scenarios.


• Train the next generation of climate scientists by providing workshops and educational services to students and post-docs in the areas of computational climate and carbon science.

Taken together, these five major thrusts form the core activities of CCS-CCRI and will ensure that climate projections are available to researchers to evaluate model results and help understand the effect of future climate change.