BFM Consortium Agreement

The development of the BFM is supported by a formal agreement, which establishes a program for model development that is discussed and prepared every year by the participants. Model developments are inserted by the System Team into the different releases of the model. The agreement is open to entrance of more contributors and more information can be requested to BFM-Community System Team.

The Consortium organization is detailed in the BFM agreement and current members of the consortium are: CMCC, OGS, UNIBO, UCT, and SYKE.

• The BFM Agreement signed in Spring 2011 (pdf)
• First amendment to the Work Plan 2011-2013: May 2012 (pdf)
• First amendment to the Annex 1 of the BFM Agreement: October 2013 (pdf)
• Accession form of University of Cape Town (UCT): April 2015 (pdf)
• Accession form of Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE): July 2016 (pdf)

System Team & Work Plan

Here below the chronology of work plan documents approved by the Steering Committee

• BFM Work Plan 2011-2013 (pdf)
• BFM Work Plan 2015-2017 (pdf)

System Team Coordinator: Momme Butenschön (CMCC)

Scientific Leader: Paolo Lazzari (OGS)

Steering Committee members:

• Marcello Vichi (UCT, chairperson)
• Cosimo Solidoro (OGS)
• Nadia Pinardi (UNIBO DIFA)
• Simona Masina (CMCC)
• Letizia Tedesco (SYKE)

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System Team members

UNIBO DIFA :	Nadia Pinardi	Isabella Scroccaro	Luca Giacomelli
CMCC :	Tomas Lovato	Momme Butenschön	Andrea Russo	Simona Masina
OGS :	Paolo Lazzari	Giorgio Bolzon	Gianpiero Cossarini	Simone Libralato	Cosimo Solidoro
UCT :	Marcello Vichi	Abdoulkadri Chama	Giles Fearon	Mark Hague	Riesna Audh	Shantelle Smith
	Jonathan Rogerson
SYKE :	Letizia Tedesco