COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

Lead coordinators: Yen-Ting Hwang, Allison Wing, and Thorsten Mauritsen

Why COMMUNITY INITIATIVES?

CFMIP supports informal activities which can contribute to answer important scientific questions about clouds, circulation, precipitation, and climate.  As a community driven project, we support informal interactions and activities at our meetings and beyond.  These activities include informal CFMIP experiments that are not a part of CMIP, tools and observations that are useful for assessing our science, and focused attention and discussion in key research areas.  Let us know if you have an idea and CFMIP (initially through the SSC) will do our best to support you.

informal CFMIP experiments

Currently several informal model experiments endorsed and supported by CFMIP are actively on the move. Click to see a brief description of each experiment.  We plan to update this list in 2026 (apologies for some older information here for now).

1. ETIN-MIP (Contact: Sarah Kang), see updates as of the 2023 meeting here

2. COMBLE-MIP or Arctic cold-air outbreak LES/SCM MIP (contact: Tim Juliano, Florian Tornow, Ann Fridlind), Contact: Tim Juliano), see updates as of the 2024 meeting here

3. RCEMIP (Contact: Allison Wing), see updates as of the 2024 meeting here 

4. ITCZ-MIP (Contact: Angie Pendergrass), see updates as of the 2022 meeting here 

5. TRAC-MIP (Contact: Aiko Voigt and Michela Biasutti), see updates as of the 2022 meeting here

6. Evaluation of cloud-base precipitation rates using ground-based observation (Israel Siber and Ann Fridlind)

7. Cloud Adjustment MIP, CAMIP (contact: Nick Lutsko)

8. Green's Function MIP, GFMIP (contact: Jonah-Bloch Johnson)

9. Pattern-effect MIP (contact: Angshuman Modak, Thorsten Mauritsen)

10. Coupled Green's Function MIP, CGF-MIP (contact: Malte Stuecker) 

Updates from GFMIP, Pattern-effect MIP, Coupled Green's Function MIP, and TROPICS working group updates as of 2023 meeting here.