The CCPP sponsors the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling Project (COSIM) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The COSIM project provides the ongoing development and distribution of (1) the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) ocean general circulation model, which is the ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM); and (2) the LANL Sea Ice Model (CICE), which is one option for the sea ice component of the CCSM. In addition to coupled climate simulations, COSIM researchers apply POP, CICE and other ocean models to a variety of ocean and sea ice problems, including eddy-resolving ocean simulations, studies of the thermohaline circulation, and polar ice feedbacks.
The end-product of the CCPP is the simulation and prediction of contemporary climate and possible future climates using the state-of-science coupled climate models, e.g., the CCSM. These multi-century simulations are coordinated through the CCSM Climate Change Working Group. Results from these simulations are accessible to interested researchers throughout the world and serve as critical input to major national and international assessments of potential future climatic changes in the polar regions. See http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/ccp/ for details.