Solicitation Announcement
Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models
National Science Foundation
Submission deadline: 11 May 2012
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503399
For questions, please contact:
William Wiseman
Email: wwiseman [at] nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-4750
The solicitation for "Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using
Earth System Models (EaSM)" was released by NSF and has a proposal
deadline of 11 May 2012 at 5:00 p.m. proposers' local time.
This is the second in a series of EaSM solicitations (see NSF Program
Solicitation 10-554 for the first EaSM solicitation). It remains focused
on the prediction of future climates and their consequences for human
systems on time scales of several decades and shorter, and global to
regional and finer spatial scales. A time span of several decades is
chosen because within this timeframe modeled climate change responses
appear to be insensitive to CO2 forcing scenarios. Moreover, adaptation
planning and implementation is carried out on roughly these time scales.
This solicitation will not consider research involving varying CO2
forcing scenarios beyond the next several decades. The long-term EaSM
Program goals (see the Synopsis and Program Description Section) remain
essentially the same; however, some of the specific areas of interest
related to those goals have changed. There will be less emphasis on
model building, and greater emphasis on the following:
- Predictability studies
- Extreme events
- Prediction and attribution
- Upscaling/downscaling
- Interactions between natural and human systems
- Research on metrics, methods, and tools for testing, evaluating,
and validating climate and climate impact predictions and their
uncertainty characterization.
Unlike EaSM 1, this solicitation will not consider proposals for
incubator or pilot project activities.
Submission deadline: 11 May 2012.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503399.
For questions, please contact:
William Wiseman
Email: wwiseman [at] nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-4750