MIT's Climate Modeling Initiative

is a collaboration between scientists at MIT, coordinated by the Center for Global Change Science, to develop a modeling infrastructure for the study of the atmosphere, ocean and climate of the Earth.

An approach that emphasizes modeling hierarchies is pursued, bridging from simple to complex, but based on a common set of modeling tools.

The development focus of CMI is MITgcm, a hydrodynamical model that can be used to study both the atmosphere and ocean.

Our approach is wide-ranging encompassing algorithmic, computational, physical, biogeochemical and technological innovations, drawing together elements of computational fluid dynamics, statistics, meteorology, oceanography and computer science.

CMI is directed by John Marshall.