Danish Meteorological Institute

country: Denmark

The Danish Meteorological Institute is the official weather service and climate advisor to the Danish Government, and it operates across the Kingdom of Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands. DMI’s research and development departments address various facets ranging from meteorology to sea ice and ocean modelling and remote sensing, stratosphere dynamics, radar, numerical weather prediction model development, and global and regional climate modelling. The climate research group pioneered coupled climate and ice sheet models.

DMI, in collaboration with other partners (CNR, AWI), will integrate the dedicated ice and snow surface model CISSEMBEL into earth system models. This step enhances the physical representation of the interaction between the atmosphere and the ice sheets in global models. It paves the road towards more realistic simulations. Also, in collaboration with other partners (UiO, GEUS), they will compare the fidelity of their snow ice surface models used in LIQUIDICE. Furthermore, CISSEMBEL will contribute to IMBIE [http://imbie.org/], while the development of CISSEMBEL will incorporate the debris effect that is essential for processes in Alpine regions.