News and Events
October 28, 2025
Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making
Climate research provides the scientific foundation of the European Union’s climate policies, including the ambitious European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. ...
May 29, 2025
UKESM supporting European Climate Education Projects
The European Union Horizon 2020 research project CRESCENDO refers to Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach....
December 14, 2023
Linking the climate modelling community with satellite climate datasets
Through its Climate Change Initiative (CCI), ESA develops a suite of satellite data records of 36 key components of the climate system, known as Essential Climate Variables (ECVs)....
December 14, 2023
ESM2025 Bridging the Gap: Science to Policy Meeting in Brussels
Scientists from four EU-funded climate research projects met with policy officers from the European Commission in Brussels in November 2023....
July 18, 2023
Participating at COP27 in Egypt
UK pavilion talk on "Co-benefits and trade-offs of climate action, uncovering new incentives for early climate action” and a poster on "Physical Climate at 2oC and 4oC as seen in the UK Earth System model"...
June 30, 2023
Optimal High Resolution Earth System Models for Exploring Future Climate Change (OptimESM)
The OptimESM project will provide new and policy-relevant knowledge on the consequences of reaching or exceeding different levels of global warming, including the risk of rapid change in key Earth system phenomena and the regional impacts arising from the level of global warming and the occurrence of abrupt changes....
June 30, 2023
ESM2025 General Assembly in Grenoble – May/June 2023
Project participants from 20 partners across 7 countries descended on Grenoble for the 3rd General Assembly of the ESM2025 project....
June 20, 2023
The Marine Biogeochemical Evaluation Toolkit, bgcval2
The marine biogeochemistry validation toolkit, bgcval, has been a key part of the validation of the United Kingdom Earth System model since the early days of UKESM1 development back in 2015....
June 10, 2023
Regional Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project
The cooling effect of aerosols means they have played an important role in climate change over the last 200 years, masking some of the warming caused by increases in greenhouse gases, and contributing to observed multidecadal variability. ...
June 01, 2023
Global-scale evaluation of a coastal ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) scheme in UKESM1
The Earth’s climate is rapidly changing with an increase in mean surface air temperature of 1.09°C between 1850-1900 and 2011-2020....