Services
We provide services and support for activities related to atmospheric high-performance computing, weather and climate modelling, climate scenarios, and climate impacts in the areas of research, education, and outreach.
C2SM User Landing Page
Helpful information for the C2SM community members, such as tools, manuals, and scripts for the climate models stored and maintained at C2SM, can be found at the external page C2SM User Landing Page.
In particular, the external page User Support and external page Tasks subpages provide information on how to get regular support and how to assign tasks to groups, third parties and C2SM community projects.
ICON
The ICON modelling framework is a joint project between the external page German Weather Service (DWD) and the external page Max Planck Institute for Meteorology for developing a unified next-generation global numerical weather prediction and climate modelling system. The ICON framework includes the components atmosphere, ocean, land surface, as well as traces gases and aerosols. ICON has been used for national weather forecasts at external page DWD since 2015. It is now also increasingly used for research purposes, also in C2SM member groups. Within the C2SM EXCLAIM openETH project, ICON will be adapted for extreme-scale modelling on modern supercomputing architectures.
More information on ICON at
CESM
The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is a fully-coupled, global climate model which includes the atmosphere, ocean, ice, land surface, carbon cycle, and other components, and provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states. The CESM project is supported primarily by the United States National Science Foundation external page (NSF). Administration of the CESM is maintained by the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory external page (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research external page (NCAR). CESM is public domain software.
More information on CESM at
C2SM provides technical services that support members in their use and development of weather and climate models. These services are broken down into two categories: tasks and regular support. Tasks are one-time assignments that usually entail development of a new model feature, acceleration/optimisation of a model feature, or other technical improvements to a model. Tasks are proposed by one or more C2SM members and approved by the C2SM working groups. Regular support refers to the C2SM effort to ensure that all of the supported software are running correctly on the supported computing systems. This includes hosting the software for easy distribution to members, regular testing of supported software, and helping to resolve issues members have with running and compiling supported software.
The activities around Swiss climate scenarios and impact research are focusing on data quality and control, management, and processing. We also aim at integrating impact models into the processing chains of our climate models.
You can find an overview of already provided datasets on our external page User Landing Page.
C2SM also provides support for outreach and educational activities, such as technical trainings, the Swiss Climate Summer School, and ETH-Klimarunde, a public event on current topics around climate change.