About the project
The Norwegian Infrastructure for Earth System modelling (INES) provides the foundation for research of strategic relevance for Norwegian climate science and a basis for international cooperation efforts aimed at better understanding of future climate change and associated mitigation needs.
INES will establish the next generation climate model for Norwegian and Nordic research and will thus provide society and business with the most recent high-quality knowledge base, at a time when climate change is understood and recognized as a primary driver for change in wide socio-economic areas of Norway.
See full project description at NORCE`s webpages ...
Objectives
The overall objectives of the INES project are to:
- Upgrade and maintain a cutting-edge and verified ESM suitable for the national climate science community and participation in international model intercomparison projects.
- Provide an infrastructure for efficient model simulations, storage, analysis and validation available for the national climate science community and collaborating international groups.
- For efficient sharing of model data, provide an infrastructure that connects to international data grids and ensures that model data complies with established standards of the climate community
Financing
The INES e-infrastructure is financed by Research Council of Norway through the KLIMAFORSK program. The project owner is NORCE, Project leader: Mats Bentsen (NORCE), with Co-Project leader: Michael Schulz (MET).
For more details please visit the main INES project site.
The project period is from 2018 to 2021.
Cooperation
The project is a collaboration between researchers from different institutions. These are the partners in INES:
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET)
- Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)
- University of Bergen (UiB)
- University of Oslo (UiO)
- Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
- NORCE