[1] Livermore is in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.
It is funded by the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Group (RGCM) and the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) programs of the Climate and Environment Sciences Division of the United States Department of Energy.
[2][3] The main goal of PCMDI is to develop improved methods and tools for the diagnosis and intercomparison of general circulation models (GCMs).
[4] PCMDI is also developing the Cloud-Associated Parameterizations Testbed (CAPT)[5] and is involved with other research and innovations that will help with the diagnosis, tweaking, and intercomparison of models.
[6] On April 6, 2009, the American Meteorological Society held a meeting in Bethesda, Maryland to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the operation of the PCMDI.