About us

The LEMONTREE project is one of 4 projects in VESRI Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VESRI) – Schmidt Futures, funded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt as part of Schmidt Futures.

Lead PI’s Prof Sandy Harrison and Prof Iain Colin Prentice. Created by PhD student Boya Zhou using Nano Banana.

The LEMONTREE  project team comprises of an international consortium with participants from the University of Reading, Imperial College London, Columbia University, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Berkeley, Utrecht University, Seoul National University, Texas Tech University, Tsinghua University and the University of Bern. It is led by Prof Sandy Harrison (University of Reading) and Prof Iain Colin Prentice (ICL).

We will also be collaborating with ECMWF and UK Met Office.

The project started in January 2021 and finishes in July 2027.