Project Organization
The most important body of the COSMOS network is the community of Earth system scientists ready to work on and with the scientific tools and endeavours it promotes. The community meets at least once a year for the COSMOS General Assembly. At these meetings it takes strategic decisions, e.g. new scientific co-operation and projects.
It also determines the configuration of the
The board calls activity heads for
and working groups. The activity heads assignment is to organise and run groups to think about and act upon projects, methods, aspects etc. of Earth system modeling. Examples are to be found here. The activity heads report about the activities of their enterprises to the board and to the community. In their daily business they are interacting intensively with the
The COSMOS office consists of the Science Director, an ex-officio member of the board, and a Project Manager running day-to-day business. The office gets secretarial assistance for office issues and meeting organisation. Support positions for technical work on the model system as well as outreach activities are applied for. The office supports the chair and the co-chairs. It is assigned by the board, and it develops and proposes the strategies and plans for COSMOS.
The processes involved in this organisation can be found in this figure.
