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Guy P. Brasseur Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Past Accomplishments and Vision for the Future. The MPI-M in a nutshell Mission Statement and Scientific Directions Model Development and Infrastructure Scientific Departments and Projects

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  1. Guy P. BrasseurMax-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, HamburgThe Max Planck Institute for MeteorologyPast Accomplishments and Vision for the Future

  2. The MPI-M in a nutshell Mission Statement and Scientific Directions Model Development and Infrastructure Scientific Departments and Projects The International Max Planck School for Earth System Modeling Issues and Challenges Vision for the Future Scientific Presentations Outline

  3. 1. The MPI-M in a Nutshell

  4. Founded in 1974 3 Departments Climate Processes Physical Climate System Biogeochemical System 1 Research Group Integrated Assessments ~200 Staff members Total Budget of 14 Millions Euros The MPI-M in a Nutshell (1)

  5. MPG-supported positions: 47.5 Scientists: 20 Technicians: 14.5 Administration: 5.5 Others: 7.5 Scientists supported by soft-money: 65 PhD Students: 23 M&D Group: 25 The MPI-M in a Nutshell (2)

  6. Positions in each Department or Group Climate Processes: 41 Physical Climate System: 33 Biogeochemical System: 41 Integrated Assessments: 12 International Max Planck Research School: 12 Services: 20 Administration: 20 Others: 10 The MPI-M in a Nutshell (3)

  7. MPG-supported “Scientist Staff” Scientists--Scientific support staff: 11--7 Permanent—Non Permanent: 15--3 Female--Male: 1--17 German--Foreign: 16--2 The MPI-M in a Nutshell (4a)

  8. Total Staff of MPI-M Non Permanent -- Permanent: 143 -- 46 Non German -- German: 37 -- 152 Female -- Male: 77 -- 112 Scientists and Scientific Support Permanent: 15 Non Permanent: 67 The MPI-M in a Nutshell (4b)

  9. Budget of the Institute (2002) in Euros (including salaries in Meuros) Institutional (MPG) Support: 7.2 Projects (Soft-money) 6.4 Overhead: 0.3 Total: 13.9 The MPI-M in a Nutshell (5)

  10. Products and Deliverables 85 papers/year in the peer-reviewed literature Community models and model components (atmosphere, ocean; regional, global) State-of-the-art instrumentation Educational products The MPI-M in a Nutshell (6)

  11. The Research Environment Other Max Planck Institutes Biogeochemistry in Jena and Chemistry in Mainz The University of Hamburg (ZMAW) Institute for Meteorology Institute for Oceanography Sustainability Research Unit: The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Two National Facilities Model and Data Group (administered by MPI-M) The German Climate Computer Center (DKRZ) The MPI-M in a Nutshell (7)

  12. A national facility documenting, adapting and providing to the scientific community state-of-the-art global and regional climate models A national facility hosting and distributing data sets related to the Earth system, and specifically results from long-term model integrations M&D is administered by the Max Planck Institute and financed by the Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) The Model and Data Group (M&D)

  13. A national infrastructure open to the German scientific community providing top-of-the-line supercomputing facility and visualization tools Private company managed by 4 shareholders (Max Planck Society, University Hamburg, GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht, Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) [4 Meuros/year] Infrastructure provided by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) [60 Meuros in 10 years] The German Climate Computer Center (DKRZ)

  14. Organization Shareholder MPI-M DKRZ M&D Cooperation Advise WLA Service Service Requirements German Scientific Community

  15. 2. Mission Statement and Scientific Directions

  16. To understand how physical, chemical, and biological processes, as well as human behavior contribute to the dynamics of the Earth system, and specifically how they relate to global and regional climate changes. Mission Statement

  17. Analysis and Prediction of the Earth Dynamics • Develop and use appropriate tools to investigate the complexity of the Earth system, explain its natural variability, assess how the system is affected by changes in land-use, industrial development, urbanization and other human-induced perturbations

  18. Extension of physical climate models towards comprehensive Earth system models Development of a new dynamical core for a global non-hydrostatic atmospheric model component Development of a unified ocean model with shelfs, tides, and waddens, using a new grid Development of a chemical transport model to analyze observations, quantify global budgets, and assess chemistry-climate interactions New Directions (1)

  19. Quantification of energy, water, and carbon partitioning at the land surface, jointly with MPI-Jena Study of energetics, dynamics and chemistry of the mesopause region, and influences of upper atmosphere variability on lower atmospheric processes Assessment of the role of dynamical modes in climate change Investigation of the glacial-interglacial transitions . New Directions (2)

  20. 3. Model Development and Infrastructure

  21. ECHAM-5: Global Atmospheric GCM MPI-OM-1: Global/Regional Ocean GCM with ice model LPJ-BETHY-VIC: Land Vegetation Model MOZART-2: Global Chemical transport model HAMMOC: Ocean Biogeochemical Model REMO: Regional Atmospheric Model with hydrological cycle and coupled ocean model LES: Large-scale Eddy Simulations ATHAM: High resolution simulations of fire and volcanic eruptions Model development

  22. Model components of the Earth System ECHAM5, REMO, ATHAM, LES MPI-OM1LSGHAMMOC LPJBETHYVICSICOPOLIS SDIAMSDEM GWEM MOZART, CHEM, CTM, SAM, HAM

  23. Coupler Atmosphere Physics: Atmospheric Chemistry: Land Surface Regional Climate: Ocean Biogeochemistry: Sea Ice Ocean Physics

  24. A new organizational structure with Three Scientific Divisions One Scientific Project for Integrated Assessment A Service Group (Information Technology, Public Relations and Graphics, Library, Workshop) The Administration The Model and Data Group (transferred from DKRZ, administered by MPI-M) Seminar Series The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling Infrastructure (1)

  25. Service functions (IT, PR) have been centralized, and a plan for IT development is in preparation, intranet and internet A new building is being constructed A Strategic Plan for scientific research during the next 8 years Several cross-cutting working groups open to scientists from outside MPI-M Infrastructure (2)

  26. Joint project with MPI-Biogeochemistry, MPI-Chemistry and PIK (Essence Project) has been developed. International links, specifically with Institut Laplace in Paris for joint Earth System Model studies have been established. New supercomputing facilities have been installed and are accessible to MPI-M scientists (DKRZ-Hamburg) Infrastructure (3)

  27. DKRZ Hardware Configuration (in preparation)

  28. Shareholders: 50% MPG: 27% Uni-HH: 13% AWI: 5% GKSS: 5% Projects (BMBF, DFG): 50% Distribution of computing resources

  29. PRISMAn Infrastructure Project for Climate Research in Europe To create a European infrastructure for developing, coordinating and executing a long-term program of European-wide, multi-institutional Earth System simulations Develop a system of portable, efficient and user-friendly community models with associated visualization/diagnostic software under standardized coding conventions.

  30. Coordination: MPI-M, Germany KNMI, The Netherlands MPI-M&D, Germany MetOffice, United Kingdom UREADMY, United Kingdom IPSL, France MétéoFrance, France CERFACS, France DMI, Denmark SHMI, Sweden NERSC, Norway CSCS/ETH, Switzerland INGV, Italy MPI-BGC, Germany PIK, Germany ECMWF, Europe UCL-ASTR, Belgium NEC-ESS, Germany FECIT/Fujitsu, France SGI, Germany SUN, Germany NEC-CCRLE, Germany PRISM Partners

  31. 4. Scientific Departments and Scientific Projects A Quick Survey

  32. Climate Processes

  33. Atmospheric Structure from Passive Sensing Atmospheric Structure from Laser Remote Sensing Radar Methods and Technology Modeling of Boundary Layer Processes Aerosol Chemistry Climate Processes

  34. Goal: Evaluate energy and moisture exchange between sea surface and the atmosphere from passive microwave satellite dataExample: Annual mean field of fresh water flux in mm/d for the years 1992 and 1993 as derived from SSM/I microwave data

  35. Goal:Derivation of the vertical distribution of key atmospheric parameters as e.g. water vapor, ozone, aerosol, wind, through laser remote sensing Example: Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) will allow all day water vapor profiling of the troposphere with accuracies comparable to Raman-Lidar results

  36. Investigation of the indirect aerosol effects Improvement of water cycle components in climate models Study of the fate organic pollutants in the different components of the Earth system Quantification of smoke aerosols to thermal infrared emissions Improvement and extension of the HOAPS climatology Future Orientations

  37. Physical Climate System

  38. Understanding and predicting internal climate variability on seasonal, inter-annual and decadal timescales Sensitivity of the climate system to orbital forcing and meltwater input from ice-sheets Impact of anthropogenic emissions on past and future climate evolution Recent climate trends in model evolution and observations Projected Climate Change Regionalization and Extreme Events Physical Climate System

  39. Difference in annual mean surface air temperature (average over years 501 to 1000) between the mid-Holocene experiment 6k and the control run (modern insolation and preindustrial pCO2).

  40. Differences (%)in a) tree and b) grass plant functional type coverages between the mid-holocene simulation 6k and the control case. Data were averaged over the time period 501 to 1000 years.

  41. Interactions between the physical climate system and the biological system (carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry) Simulation of extreme events Stability of the thermohaline circulation High latitude climate Future Orientations

  42. Biogeochemical System

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