CICERO has been funded by the Spark Foundation to run CLM-FATES as part of the Warming Induced Emissions Model Inter-Comparison Project. In past iterations of CMIP, there has been no platform to look specifically at the responses of the terrestrial biosphere to future climate forcing, aside from the limited set of coupled experiments inside the C4MIP protocol (which are coupled climate model experiments and so subject to large variations in baseline climate which can overwhelm differences in behaviour). Future offline experiments were part of ISIMIP, which has a timeline delayed by several years as waits for the output of coupled model future scanerios to drive impact models (none of which is focused on the responses of natural ecosystems or the carbon cycle to future climate forcing). This is major gap, but happily time and dedicated resources have been provided by the SPARK foundation to provide this critical missing information.
Simulations are running and submissions are planned before summer to allow analysis to inform IPCC-AR7 timetables.
April 2026Seminar trip to Bern
I gave a research seminar at the University of Bern and had the opportunity to learn more about their intermediate complextiy modeling efforts, the LPX-Bern model, and the work of the Wyss Academy for Nature who are working on natural climate solutions representations in FATES. Thanks to Eduoard Davin (ling time friend of CLM and partner on NCS-REVISE) for hosting.
April 2026INESII & NorESM4CMIP7 meeting
Following last year’s successful meeting in Geilo, the second annual joint meeting of the INESII infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System Modeling and NotESM4CMIP7 meeting was held in Bergen at the [Bjerknes Center for Climate Research(https://bjerknes.uib.no/en). As last year, we discussed how we were quite close to having a final model version ;). The NorESM team has become ever more slick in its capacity for running, documenting, fixing, tuning and making the climate model better. You can check out literally everything we are doing online too! We were/are all very fortunate and happy that Marianawas able to come back to work in time for the annual meeting)
For several years we in the NorESM, CLM & FATES network have been very busy coding, calibration, testing debugging, recalibrating, coupling, spinning up, and analysing output from the first global version of CLM-FATES. This has been a monumental and all-consuming effort on the part of a large team of dedicated scientists. To more broadly share our activities with the newly minted global version of the model. There are a few goals.