About Us

Welcome to the webpage of the Climate Limited-area Modelling Community!

The CLM-Community (Climate Limited-area Modelling-Community) is an open, international network of scientists, who develop and apply the regional climate models COSMO-CLM and ICON-CLM.

To become a member of the CLM-Community please follow the information here:

 

The CLM-Community currently has around 300 members from about 85 climate research institutions all over the world. It is, to our knowledge, the largest consortium in the field of regional climate modelling in the world, aiming to address the challenges of model development, to efficiently use the computing resources and to make substantial contributions to answer the key questions of regional climate modelling. 

The CLM-Community members meet every year in fall at the CLM Community Assembly. At the Assembly, recent developments and exciting results are presented, further cooperations in working and project groups are initiated and community decisions are taken.

ICCARUS (ICON COSMO CLM ART User Seminar) is the second imporant meeting for the CLM-Communtiy. It takes place each year in spring at the headquarter of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) in Offenbach, Germany. ICCARUS is organized together with the ICON-, COSMO- and ART-Communities. At ICCARUS, recent model developments are presented in joint plenary sessions and in more detail also in project and working groups of the different communities.

The CLM Community also organizes an ICON Training Course together with DWD and COSMO (Consortium for Small-scale Modeling). The course usually takes place in spring or early summer at the DWD headquater in Offenbach, Germany. All new users of ICON-CLM are invited to this training course to get assistance with the first steps in regional climate modelling with ICON-CLM.

The main purpose of the CLM-Community is communication and exchange of information to provide a platform for collaboration and joined research and to enable a harmonized model development. There are several ways to share and exchange information at the moment:

If you are interested, you are cordially invited to be part of our exciting community: