Themes

Research

• Low-cloud Feedbacks
  
• Dynamical Framework (formerly Future Tools)
  
• MJO
  
• Physical Processes (formerly Deep and Shallow)

• Research webpage

Education, Outreach and Diversity

• K-12 Education and Outreach to the Public and Policymakers
  
• Undergraduate and Graduate Education, and Teaching Future Teachers
  
• Increasing the Diversity of Climate Scientists

• Education, outreach and diversity webpage

Knowledge Transfer

• Knowledge-Transfer to Climate Modeling and NWP Centers
  
• Book and Journal

• Knowledge-transfer webpage

Objectives

Research

• 1 Extensions, evaluations and applications of the prototype MMF
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• 2 Development of a second-generation MMF
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• 3 Physical process parameterization
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• 4 Innovative analysis, evaluation and interpretation of MMF results using emerging datasets
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• 5 Accelerating improvement of conventional parameterizations
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• 6 Optimal use of computational and data storage resources
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Education

• 1 Enhance K-12 education
  Objective wiki : mailing list
  
• 2 Outreach to climate stakeholders & policymakers
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• 3 Improved undergraduate climate education
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• 4 Improve graduate research and education
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Diversity

• 1 Recruit and support relevant Ph.D. candidates from underrepresented groups
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• 2 Recruit and support relevant undergraduate students
  Objective wiki : mailing list
  
• 3 Implement programs that encourage retention of women, minorities and the under-served in the science pipeline
  Objective wiki : mailing list
  
• 4 Study diversity problems and solutions, and disseminate results
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Knowledge Transfer

• 1 Provide to climate modeling centers improved tools for the simulation of global cloudiness, as well as innovative tools for the analysis of such simulations
  Objective wiki : mailing list
  
• 2 Provide improved cloud parameterizations to numerical weather prediction centers
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• 3 Create an edited book on the history of global atmospheric modeling
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• 4 Create a new all-electronic open-access journal for the publication of research on global environmental modeling, including review articles and a semi-popular section
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• 5 Create and maintain a website containing a section designed to make CMMAP results easily available to the scientific community and a section designed to increase public understanding of issues in global climate modeling
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