PRIMAVERA draws on key scientific and technological advances in four cross-disciplinary areas: i) seamless weather and climate; ii) process-based assessment; iii) high-performance computing (HPC); iv) IT, networks and post-processing capacity for large datasets. Optimally combining these advances is a huge challenge and has never been attempted before. PRIMAVERA will, for the first time ever, make highly coordinated use of European high-resolution GCMs to provide trustworthy projections up to 2050.
48 months from 01/11/2015 to 31/07/2020
https://www.primavera-h2020.eu/
General aims
The overarching goal of PRIMAVERA is to develop a new generation of advanced and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models, capable of simulating and predicting regional climate with unprecedented fidelity, for the benefit of governments, business and society in general.
CMCC Role
CMCC will contribute to a European multi-model ensemble of high-resolution simulations for the 1950-2050 period; improved physical parameterizations for sea-ice and land-surface components; analyses of the impact of model resolution on processes relevant to the European and global climate evolution, development of metrics for the evaluation of CMIP6 (and beyond) generation of climate models.
Expected results
PRIMAVERA will deliver a new generation of advanced and well-evaluated global climate models that will provide the foundational capability for future sophisticated climate related prediction systems. The advanced models will be used to achieve better understanding of past climatic variability and its causes and impacts focussing particularly on the period since 1950.
Activity
Climate simulations for the 1950-2050 period, to be carried out using two different configurations of CMCC-CM2 model, at high and very-high resolutions; development of improved physical parameterizations for sea-ice and land-atmosphere interactions; multi-model analyses of the climate simulations produced under PRIMAVERA; metrics development.
Partners
- MET OFFICE
- Uread - University Of Reading
- KNMI - Het Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
- SMHI - Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut
- CERFACS - Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique
- MPI-M - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
- BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion
- CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
- UCL - Université Catolique de Louvain - Institut d'Astronomie et de géophysique Georges Lemaître
- AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven
- Oxford University
- ISAC-CNR - Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima
- ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- NERC - Natural Environment Research Council
- UNIVLEEDS - University of Leeds
- Stockholm University
- STFC - Science & Technology Facilities Concil
- Predictia
- DKRZ