Project Summary

Capitalizing on recent advances in HPC, WarmWorld centrally contributes to this new paradigm of high-resolution models by furthering the development of ICON, a globally coupled climate model. To this end, WarmWorld’s efforts are not concentrated on constructing a model from scratch. The project rather imparts a significant contribution to ongoing developments of the already convection-resolving ICON model. Overall, WarmWorld aims to increase ICON’s run time efficiency, construct a more fine-meshed model grid, and seeks to create a more seamless experience for end-users. The leap toward smaller scales allows for the representation of finer meso-scale processes, such as cloud formation and eddies, and holds not only with the promise to improve local impact assessments but fosters potential to improve understanding of large-scale processes at the same time.

Funding

BMFTR