Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF)

The fund

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.

What the DMF does

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.

DMF research projects

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). 

Research Collaborators

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.

Degrees research collaborator photograph collage

DMF Achievements

First SRM study in South Africa

And first SRM study in Africa

Learn moreJanuary 2020

First SRM study in Benin

The first SRM study in a Least Developed Country (LDC)

Learn moreJune 2020

First SRM study in Iran

Also first SRM study in Middle East region

Learn more15th June 2020

First SRM research paper from Jamaica

First SRM study in Caribbean and Small Island Developing State

Learn more11th March 2021

First paper on SRM from Indonesia

First SRM study in Southeast Asia

Learn more19 September 2021

First SRM study in Argentina

And first SRM study in Latin America region.

Learn More26 April 2022

History of the DMF

The 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.

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