Computational Modelling Group

Generating Optimal Ensembles of Earth System Models

Homepage
http://www.genie.ac.uk/
Research Team
Elizabeth Hart, Andras Sobester
Investigators
Simon Cox

Grid-Enabled Integrated Earth System Model

GENIE is an Earth system model of intermediate complexity. As with other climate models, the tuning of its parameters is essential for providing reliable long-term forecasts of Earth system behaviour. We apply a multi-objective optimization algorithm to the problem. The aim of the tuning exercise is to find the optimal values for the free parameters that produce and euqilibrium model end state with the closest fit to equivalent observational data.

Categories

Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Climate, Oceanography

Algorithms and computational methods: Evolutionary Algorithms, Optimisation

Programming languages and libraries: Matlab

Computational platforms: Iridis