Announcement of Opportunity
Climate Process and Modeling Teams (CPT)
National Science Foundation
Full Proposal Deadline: Thursday, 24 September 2009
For further information, please search for solicitation 09-568 at:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Or contact:
William Wiseman
Email: wwiseman [at] nsf.gov
Peter Milne
Email: pmilne [at] nsf.gov
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced solicitation 09-568,
Climate Process and Modeling Teams (CPT). The key aim of the CPT concept
is to speed development of global coupled climate models and reduce
uncertainties in climate models by bringing together theoreticians,
field observationalists, process modelers and the large modeling centers
to concentrate on the scientific problems facing climate models today.
Demand is growing for climate models to provide more accurate
simulations of the present and past climates and more credible and
reliable predictions and projections of future climates. Meeting this
demand requires that progress in model development accelerate, a goal
that will be met most effectively by bringing field experimentalists,
remote sensing experts, process modelers, and global-scale modelers
together to tackle the most persistent and vexing problems in how global
models represent key processes.
The CPT is envisioned to support collaborations that will accelerate
progress in climate model development. Such support should include
visiting scientist programs, post-doctoral programs that give incentives
for modelers and field scientists to interact, workshops for the teams
to interact regularly, and computational resources to test and assess
new parameterizations.
The full text of the announcement can be found by searching for
solicitation number 09-568 at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/. The full
proposal deadline is Thursday, 24 September 2008.
For further information, please contact:
William Wiseman
Email: wwiseman [at] nsf.gov
Or:
Peter Milne
Email: pmilne [at] nsf.gov