Governance

The ESMValTool governance structure is described here. A consortium agreement is currently undergoing review by partners.

ESMValTool Core Development Team

  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Germany (Co-PI)
  • Met Office, United Kingdom (Co-PI)
  • Alfred Wegener institute (AWI) Bremerhaven, Germany (overseeing EU Horizon 2020 APPLICATE and TRR181 ESMValTool work)
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain (overseeing EU Horizon 2020 PRIMAVERA ESMValTool work)
  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC), The Netherlands
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (overseeing EU Horizon 2020 CRESCENDO ESMValTool work)
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), United Kingdom
  • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
  • University of Bremen, Germany
  • University of Reading, United Kingdom
  • ACCESS-NRI, The Australian National University, Australia

ESMValTool Development Team

  • Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Italy
  • Brown University, RI, USA
  • Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway
  • Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Colorado State University, CO, USA
  • Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), Germany
  • Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
  • Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany
  • GERICS Climate Service Center, Germany
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) NOAA, USA
  • Government of Canada, Canada
  • IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, Korea
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), France
  • Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISAC-CNR), Italy
  • Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA), University of Cantabria, Spain
  • Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil
  • International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), United Arab Emirates
  • IPCC WGI Technical Support Unit (TSU), France
  • Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Maynooth University, Ireland
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE)/ Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), France
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), CA, USA
  • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI), Germany
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI), Germany
  • Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Spain
  • Météo France, France
  • Met Office Hadley Centre, United Kingdom
  • Monash University, Australia
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), CO, USA
  • National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
  • National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia
  • National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand
  • Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Met Norway), Norway
  • Ouranos, Canada
  • Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), The Netherlands
  • Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  • Uni Research, Norway
  • Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
  • University of Arizona, AZ, USA
  • University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • University of Delft, The Netherlands
  • University of Exeter, United Kingdom
  • University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Sweden
  • University of Hamburg, Germany
  • University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
  • University of Melbourne, Australia
  • University of Paris, France
  • University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
  • Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Austria

Projects funding the ESMValTool Development

See list of projects.

Alex_Loew Our great friend and colleague, Alexander Loew, lost his life in a tragic traffic accident. Our thoughts are with his family and his department. Alex, we are shocked beyond words and will miss you greatly!