Announcement of Opportunity: Global Climate Model Development for Africa 2014
Closing date (Notification of Intent): 16:00 UK local time (GMT+1), Monday 2 June 2014
Closing date (Proposals): 16:00 UK local time (GMT+1), Tuesday 5 August 2014
The prediction of African climate variability and change through model development of global models with an African lens. This call is for proposals for the Global Climate Model Development for Africa Project, which will provide an opportunity for the world’s best researchers to undertake large-scale, complex natural science research to advance Proposals are invited for funding of up to £3m full economic cost (FEC) per consortium.
We anticipate funding a single project for a maximum duration of four years with an expected start date of January 2015. The focus of this project will be on evaluating and developing the representation of processes affecting pan-African climate on timescales for adaptation (medium-term or 5 to 40 years) in general circulation models (GCM). This will include improving the understanding and representation of drivers, processes and feedbacks responsible for the greatest uncertainty in model representations of African climate. The intention is to deliver a step-change in the performance of GCMs for Africa and to make a long-term contribution to model development with an African lens. This will improve projections of future changes in rainfall and extreme weather for Africa, increasing availability of high quality, robust climate information across the continent.
Notification of Intent to submit form here
Announcement of Opportunity here
FCFA 2014 Global Project Full Proposal Guidance Annex 1 here
FCFA 2014 Global Project Full Proposal Guidance Annex 2 here
FCFA 2014 Global Project Full Proposal Guidance Annex 3 here
FCFA 2014 Global Project Full Proposal Guidance Annex 4 here
FCFA 2014 Global Project Full Proposal Guidance Annex 5 here
For more informations here.
