Acknowledgements

The development of the ESMValTool was/is funded by

Project Description Funding period
AI4PEX the EU’s Horizon Europe, the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee and the Swiss State’s Secretariat for Education project “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Enhanced Representation of Processes and Extremes in Earth System Models (AI4PEX)” 04/2024-03/2028
APPLICATE the EU’s Horizon 2020 “Advanced Prediction in Polar regions and beyond: Modelling, observing system design and LInkages associated with a Changing Arctic climate (APPLICATE)” project -
BMBF the BMBF’s CMIP6-DICAD project funding CMIP6 activities in Germany 07/2016-06/2020
BMBF the BMBF project “German Contribution to ClimAte Projections for CMIP7 (CAP7)” 09/2024-08/2027
C3S Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Lot 1 and Lot 2 Metrics and Access to Global Indices for Climate Projections (C3S-MAGIC) projects  
4C the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, under Grant Agreement number 821003, the “Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century (4C)” 06/2019-05/2023
CRESCENDO the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, under Grant Agreement number 641816, the “Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach (CRESCENDO)” 11/2015-03/2021
CMUG the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG) Phase 2 07/2014-06/2017
CMUG the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG) Phase 3 10/2018-09/2022
CMUG the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Climate Modelling User Group (CMUG) Phase 4 10/2023-09/2026
EMBRACE the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, under Grant Agreement number 282672, the “Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change (EMBRACE)” project 11/2011-02/2016
ESM2025 the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, under Grant Agreement number 101003536, the “Earth system models for the future (ESM2025)” project 06/2021-05/2025
eWaterCycle the NWO (eWaterCycle II)” project -
ESMVal the DLR project “Earth System Model Validation (ESMVal)” 01/2011-04/2015
EUCP the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, under Grant Agreement number 776613, the “European Climate Prediction system (EUCP)” 12/2017-11/2021
EVal4CMIP the Helmholtz Society project “Advanced Earth System Model Evaluation for CMIP (EVal4CMIP)” 09/2017-08/2022
IS-ENES3 the third phase project of the distributed e-infrastructure of models, model data and metadata of the European Network for Earth System Modelling “Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System Modelling (IS-ENES3)”. The IS-ENES3 project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824084. 01/2019-12/2022
KliSAW the DLR project “Klimarelevanz von atmosphärischen Spurengasen, Aerosolen und Wolken: Auf dem Weg zu EarthCARE und MERLIN (KliSAW)” 01/2015-09/2019
MABAK the DLR project “Innovative Methoden zur Analyse und Bewertung von Veränderungen der Atmsphäre und des Klimasystems (MABAK)” 01/2020-12/2024
PRIMAVERA EU Horizon 2020 PRocess-based climate sIMulation: AdVances in high-resolution modelling and European climate Risk Assessment (PRIMAVERA) project -
TRR181 the DFG TRR181 - Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean” -
UKESMP the National Environmental Research Council (NERC) National Capability Science Multi-Centre (NCSMC) funding for the UK Earth system modelling project (Grant NE/N018036/1)” 04/2016-11/2019