Internal Projects
At the MPI-M we strive to strategically initiate, and support, cross-cutting projects. These projects bring together diverse teams of scientists from across the institute to help answer important questions. Unlike scientific working groups, which have a more permanent status, and work within one of the institute's three departments, internal projects should bring together people from different departments, and have a limited lifetime. Currently the institute supports three cross cutting projects, some in cooperation with partner institutes.
CMIP5
With DKRZ the MPI-M has devoted considerable resources to the CMIP5 project. This project finalized the development and secured the release of the MPI-ESM, our first generation Earth System Model. Additionally the model was used to conduct the institute's CMIP5 simulations, which contributes to the assessment of our understanding of climate change by the IPCC. Both the model and the simulation data are available to the broader community upon request. For further information please contact 
Dr. Johann Jungclaus, or visit the project website (
here).
ICON
Together with the German Weather Service (the DWD) the institute is developing a next generation numerical model, one that is capable of better exploiting advances in high performance computing. This numerical model, called ICON, is built around an icosohedral grid, and will be numerically integrated over grids whose resolution permits the explicit representation of deep convection. The first release of this model is expected to be at the end of 2012. For further information please contact Dr. Marco Giorgetta, or visit the project website (here).
STORM
Together with other partners on the KlimaCampus, the MPI-M has been using the MPI-ESM to explore the effects of very high resolution on patterns of climate. This project, called STORM, is combining an atmosphere model that has 95 levels and a triangular spectral truncation of T255, leading to a grid spacing at mid-latitudes near 25 km, with a tri-polar ocean grid whose average resolution is about 0.1 deg. The purpose of the STORM simulations is to help understand the effects of qualitiatively new phenomena that emerge at different scales, such as ocean eddies, or the interactions between fluid flows and topography. For further information please contact Dr. Jin-Song von Storch, or visit the project webpage (here).