GENIE:Future funding

GENIE:ENGAGE now funded

Options for future funding
Please feel free to add new ideas, or start fleshing out proposals as appropriate.

n.b. if writing a GENIE science project, please include model maintenance and support costs in proposal in line with FEC. Between 1 day per month and 1 day per week is probably appropriate - please talk to Gethin as early as possible in the process of proposal writing.

Why GENIE's great (things to mention in the background section future proposals)

 * GEODISE, ensemble runs on grid, engineering standard optimisation of GENIE flavours

Science

 * strong presence in IPCC AR5
 * Tuned and tested closed carbon cycle GENIE 2 (IGCM, MOSES/TRIFFID)
 * Reproduce borehole temperatures and tree ring proxies of global T!
 * Boundary conditions for the last milennium
 * Solar constant
 * CO2 concentration
 * Land use change
 * Volcanic effect on solar radiation

Scientific Development

 * Multigas (CH4, N2O) radiative forcing (and sinks?)
 * Atmospheric chemistry scheme - gas phase chemistry, particle formation, dust
 * Climate sensitivity knob

Technological development

 * Free biogem from the shackles of GOLDSTEIN

Proposals underway
Integrating impacts models into GENIE
 * UEA (Lenton/Goswami), Tyndall(Warren/Santos), Manchester(Riley/Ford), Soton(Andy Price)
 * NERC
 * Model development on GENIE and CIAS side
 * BFG integration
 * Science done with outcome

Characterising climate society dynamics under mitigation: a control perspective
 * Lancaster (Andy Jarvis), UEA (Warren/Santos, Lenton/Goswami)
 * NERC standard grant (1st July 2008)

Using GENIE with GLIMMER to simulate past glacial changes
 * Bob Marsh, Dan Lunt
 * Inception, LGM, Deglaction
 * Further back too
 * Road test of ice-sheet component
 * 1x postdoc 1xPhD student

Ideas for fundable GENIE projects:
Infrastructure research and development
 * Rupert and Graham, Gethin, Andy Price
 * EPSRC
 * Concurrency, model ordering, module integration etc.
 * Who on climate science side would like to get involved with this work?

Open sourcing GENIE
 * Money for Gethin and a code monkey
 * OMII? commercial funding sources?
 * Possible funders
 * OMII
 * Omidyar Network
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GENIE2 closed carbon cycle
 * 1 December NERC Grant round?
 * Tuned and tested IGCM with MOSES/TRIFFID
 * BFG-ising GENIE2 components in the background
 * Last milliennium simulations and future projections of CO2 emissions (1000yr timescale)
 * Scoping study first?

Other ideas for GENIE projects
GAIAGem (just a name at the moment, but hey, it sounds good)

Evolutionary biology

Atmospheric chemistry scheme / dust module

Coupling existing models from elsewhere

Web based GENIE

Other income sources
Searching for sponsorship from e.g. Google or the Guardian for creating standalone GENIE 'toy' model for teaching / public exploration of the Earth-system. Integrate with Google pack? Martin to investigate