The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC)
Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland)
Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Norway)
NICEST-2 is the second phase of the Nordic Collaboration on e-Infrastructures for Earth System Modeling Tools and it focuses on strengthening the Nordic position within climate modeling by leveraging, reinforcing and complementing ongoing initiatives. It builds on previous efforts within NICEST (a 3-year NeIC project as of 2017-01) and NordicESM (3-year NordForsk funded project from 2014-12). NICEST2 activities include: 1) Enhance the performance and optimize and homogenize workflows used, so climate models (like EC-EARTH and NorESM) can be run in an efficient way on future computing resources (like EuroHPC); 2) Widen the usage and expertise on evaluating Earth System Models and develop new diagnostic modules for the Nordic region within the ESMValTool; 3)Create a roadmap for FAIRification of Nordic climate model data.
Anne Foilloux, Hamish Struthers, Risto Makkonen, Oskar Landgren, Antti-Ilari Partanen, Elina Miinalainen, Jean Iaquinta, et al. "NeIC NICEST2 Project." ROHub. Apr 01 ,2022. https://doi.org/10.24424/chnf-4g76.
Initial Collaboration agreement for the NICEST2 project
Achievements of the NeIC NICEST2 project at the beginning of January 2022. This slide is part of a presentation that has been shown during the NeIC AHM22.
NICEST2 project outcomes (24th January 2022)
The submitted project proposal for the NICEST2 project.
NICEST2 project plan. Please note that some changes may have been agreed during the course of the project.
Economy, business and finance/Economy/Macro economics/Budgets and budgeting
Environment/Natural resources/Water/Rivers
physical geography and environmental geoscience
NICESTThe objective of the NICEST project was to strengthen the Nordic ESM community by supporting the efficientuse of various e infrastructures through competence building, sharing and exchanging knowledge.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Nordics and NeICWithin the Nordic ESM modeling community there is significant and sustained support for the concept of aNordic collaboration.
Economy, business and finance/Business information/Human resources
NICEST-2 is the second phase of the Nordic Collaboration on e-Infrastructures for Earth System Modeling Tools and it focuses on strengthening the Nordic position within climate modeling by leveraging, reinforcing and complementing ongoing initiatives.
Strengthen the Nordic position within climate modeling by leveraging, reinforcing and complementing ongoinginitiatives to enable a future joint Nordic Climate Model Intercomparison Project and Nordic Climate services toassist decision making.
Arts, culture and entertainment/Arts and entertainment/Literature/Non-fiction
The Climate Community needs to learn and understand FAIR principles to be able to create a roadmap for FAIRification of Nordic climate model data.
In addition to the comprehensive experiments made available to the community through CMIP, NorESM is also used in Norway to study present and past climate states and variability ranging from seasonal to multi centennial time scales.
Education/School/Higher education/College
With regard to one another, each partner bears responsibility for implementation of the duties and obligations specified in this collaboration agreement and the project description specified for the partner.
It builds on previous efforts within NICEST (a 3-year NeIC project as of 2017-01) and NordicESM (3-year NordForsk funded project from 2014-12)
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Nordic aims at bridging e services in the Nordic region with EuropeanOpen Science Cloud (EOSC). The Nordic Climate Community is represented in EOSC Nordic by a few partners ofthe NICEST project.
Education/Teaching and learning/Students
The Climate Modelling community is an essential component of joint European efforts to build a European framework of earth system modelling as part of the ENES/IS ENES network (European Network for Earth System Science), through Horizon projects (e.g.
The partners will sign necessary agreements with owners, employees (including individuals with dual employment), partners, sub contractors, and others that are required to fulfil the relevant partner s obligations under this agreement, including measures to ensure the necessary transfer of intellectual property rights.
The Climate Community needs to work on improving the performance and optimizing/homogenizing workflows used, so that climate models (like EC EARTH and
When appropriate, the project owner enters into a separate agreement with the employer of the project manager in a way that does not violate the terms of this agreement.
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish modeling groups have committed to participate in phase of CMIP (CMIP )
EC EARTH and NorESM model throughput on LUMI EC EARTH and NorESM are portable e.g. they can run on different HPC national providers and on Virtual machines (cloud computing). EC EARTH and NorESM can scale on new architectures (performance analysis numbers compared to initially on HPC national providers and LUMI when available). Number of users running EC EARTH and NorESM on their own national facilities.
If not defined otherwise in the project description the project owner does not require the right to conclude a contract on behalf of the other partners through this collaboration agreement.
Economy, business and finance/Business information/Strategy and marketing/Commercial contract
NICEST2 activities include: 1) Enhance the performance and optimize and homogenize workflows used, so climate models (like EC-EARTH and NorESM) can be run in an efficient way on future computing resources (like EuroHPC); 2) Widen the usage and expertise on evaluating Earth System Models and develop new diagnostic modules for the Nordic region within the ESMValTool; 3)Create a roadmap for FAIRification of Nordic climate model data.
Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC)