The Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF) is the first international SRM modelling fund and the first aimed exclusively at scientists in developing countries.
The DMF is the largest SRM research initiative in the world by number of scientists, having supported over 150 researchers working across 26 projects hosted in 21 developing countries. It has awarded over $1,800,000 in research grants.
The Degrees Modelling Fund provides grants to research teams in developing countries who want to understand how SRM could affect their local climate.
New projects are selected via an open call for proposals and a process of independent peer review. Applicants are free to define their own research questions and methods for answering them – the Degrees Initiative does not tell teams what to study or how to do it.
Twenty six teams have been awarded DMF research grants to date. The projects explore how SRM could affect, amongst other things, dust storms across the Middle East, droughts in Southern Africa, the spread of cholera in South Asia.
The teams are working with data generated by large climate model runs such as the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) or the NCAR Geoengineering Large Ensemble (GLENS).
DMF teams are paired with some of the world’s leading SRM modelling experts to increase international cooperation around SRM research and to build a global community of experts.
First SRM study in Caribbean and Small Island Developing State
Learn more11th March 2021The Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF) was launched in 2018 as the DECIMALS Fund (Developing Country Impacts Modelling Analysis for SRM). In 2022, DECIMALS was renamed the Degrees Modelling Fund.
The DMF is a partnership between The Degrees Initiative and TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences. The DMF would not have been possible without their expert guidance and hard work.
