Climate change is not only a pressing social and economic problem of our time, but also poses one of the most complex challenges to science. In order to analyze the further development of climate change and its effects on the economy and ecology, researchers nowadays use climate as well as climate-impact models. These tools also allow finding answers to questions regarding appropriate strategies to reduce or best adapt to the consequences of climate change.
Objectives
The newly founded Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM) enables climate researchers from the greater Zurich area to meet this challenge. The focus is hereby put on improving the understanding of climate systems, which is the key to developing optimal strategies regarding climate change. In addition to strengthening cooperation between different institutions, the center also aims to intensify climate research, develop and ameliorate climate models, and provide climate and model data for the coming generation of high-performance computers. Founding members of C2SM are the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Empa, and the Research station Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon (ART).
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