Norwegian Service Centre for Climate Modelling -> NoSerC project description 2003-2004 -> Project Description 2000-2002 -> Overall Aims
2. Overall Aims
The overall aim of the proposed service centre for climate modelling is
To facilitate efficient climate research in Norway, by providing technical assistance in the areas of data handling and analysis and computational efficiency of climate models.
This will be reached through four main tasks:
- National facility for archiving of climate modelling data
- Formats and conversion routines for storage of climate modelling data
- Porting and optimisation of climate models
- Library of data analysis tools
Objective: To facilitate fast and easy access to climate data for all scientists involved in national climate modelling projects.
Objective: To store climate modelling data in standard formats, which facilitates exchange of data and easy conversions to and from formats used by climate models and pre/post-processing tools, and to provide the required conversion routines.
Objective: To improve the computational efficiency of the commonly used climate models on the available high performance computers in Norway.
Objective: To make a set of data analysis tools easily available to all Norwegian scientists working with climate modelling.
In addition, the centre should provide general guidance on technical use of IT to Norwegian climate scientists.
These tasks and objectives are ambitious, given the limited size of the centre. However, depending on the activity in the climate modelling projects, some tasks will be of special importance in some periods while the activity in other tasks can be reduced during these periods. We leave to the proposed Steering Committee (see next section) to prioritise consecutively among the tasks.
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