EUCLIPSE

EU Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project

A.P. Siebesma, S. Bony, M. Webb, B. Stevens, F. Selten, R. Neggers, J. Quaas, I. Sandu, M. Ringer, Bodas-Salcedo, H. Chepfer, E. Guilyardi, F. Hourdin, J-L. Dufresne, G. Tselioudis, A. Romanou, T. Palmer, M. Rodwell, A. Weisheimer, S.R. de Roode, H. Jonker, I. Beau, G. Bellon, D. Bouniol, F. Bouysell, M Deque, H. Douville. F. Guichard, G. Svensson, M. Tjernstrom, U. Lohmann, H. Pawslowska, J. Teixeira, M. Lautenschlager, S. Kindermann

What is EUCLIPSE?

A (likely) European Commission (EC) sponsored collaborative project

Plans are build on the CFMIP2/GCSS proposals

View it as capacity building around the CFMIP2/GCSS plans

Starting date : Fall 2009/Early 2010

Duration: 4 years.

Budget

Total Budget: 5 Million Euro

Eu Sponsored: 3.5 Million Euro

Involved Institutes: 1.5 Million Euro

Mainly used to hire personel: 42 man year total

Involved Institutes

TOPICS

WP1: Evaluation techniques and climate model experiments

Largely overlapping CFMIP2/GCSS

Extra resources for data hosting and dissemination (DKRZ)

Led by: George Tselioudis (Athens)

WP2: Climate Model Evaluation and Analysis

Extra: cloud aerosol evaluation subproject (Quaas MPI Hamburg)

subproject on evaluation of polar clouds (Svensson, Stockholm)

Led by: Sandrine Bony (IPSL)

WP3: Process Evaluation Analysis

Largely overlapping with present activities discussed in this workshop

Some extra emphasis on ESM evaluation on specific locations: Cloudnet, ARM AMMA,GPCI

Led by: Stephan de Roode (TU Delft)

WP4: Metrics and diagnostics for narrowing uncertainties in clolud climate feedback

Extra: NWP related activities to identify cloud representation biases:

Initial tendency techniques.

Transpose-AMIP type of experiments.

model experiments nudged to reanalysis data.

Led by: Bjorn Stevens (MPI Hamburg)

Outreach Activities

1 or 2 Summerschools

Outreach of model and observational data.

Publications, Websites, Brochures etc……

Conclusions

View EUCLIPSE as a “funded organic outflow” of CFMIP2 that will increase capacity to enlarge the chances of success for the CFMIP2/GCSS plans! (like EUROCS vs GCSS in the past)

TOPICS