Organization
Partner and network
DKRZ is a member of several national, European and international associations.
The Cluster of Excellence „Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction“ (CliSAP) of the University of Hamburg is funded for 5 years in the framework of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state Governments and started in 2007. It initiated the foundation of the network KlimaCampus which includes scientists from 18 different institutes of the University of Hamburg as well as non-university partners such as the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and the German Climate Computing Centre. Together, they analyze natural and human-caused climate change and develop scenarios for the future.
The Gauß-Allianz for supercomputing is a cooperation of the 15 leading German high performance computing centers – among them DKRZ. It establishes the requirements for a sustainable and efficient use of supercomputing resources, coordinates the HPC related activities of its members and implements the BMBF study “HPC in Germany – Reasons for a Strategic Alliance”. The newsletter “Infobrief” (in German), published by the Gauß-Allianz, informs about the latest news and developments of the HPC community.
The German Climate Consortium (Deutsches Klima-Konsortium e.V. - DKK) represents the essential parts of German climate and climate impact research. Under the guiding principle “Research for Society, Economy and the Environment”, DKK brings together twenty-one internationally renowned research organizations, amongst them DKRZ. These organizations make an important contribution to recognize and respond to climate change and climate impacts.
In 2001, a large number of European climate modeling groups joined to form the European Network for Earth System Modeling (ENES) with the aim of accelerating the development of Earth system models for climate through the exchange of model software and results and improving high performance computing facilities. Four European projects initiated by ENES are ongoing: COMBINE, METAFOR, EUCLIPSE and IS-ENES. DKRZ contributes to METAFOR, EUCLIPSE and IS-ENES. The ENES newsletter, published on a quarterly base, aims to keep interested parties up-to-date with the latest news regarding the activities of the ENES community.
