What is the CRESCENDO Project?

AIMS

The primary aims of the CRESCENDO project are: 1) to improve the numerical representation of key Earth system processes in models used to predict climate and the Earth system; 2) Evaluate the performance of these models; 3) use the updated models to generate new projections for the coming century as part of the United Nations CMIP6 initiative. You can explore the output of some of the future projections here in the app — follow the Explore Output link below.

PARTICIPANTS

There are seven Earth system models in the CRESCENDO project – each developed by a number of different scientific centres:

  • UKESM [United Kingdom]: Meteorological Office Hadley Centre; National Oceanography Centre; University of Exeter; University of East Anglia; University of Leads (National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences); University of Reading (National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences); Finnish Meteorological Institute.
  • CNRM-ESM [France]: Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques.
  • CMCC-ESM [Italy]: Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici.
  • EC-EARTH [European collaboration]: Finnish Meteorological Institute; Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute; University of Lund.
  • MPI-ESM [Germany]: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie.
  • IPSL-ESM [France]: Institut Pierre Simon Laplace.
  • Nor-ESM [Norway]: University of Bergen; Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

You can explore the output of global climate change projections from the CRESCENDO Earth system models by following the Explore link below.

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