The Lake Model Intercomparison Project (LakeMIP): overview of the project

(1) Centre ESCER, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, 201 Av. du President-Kennedy, H2X 3Y7, Montreal, Canada (andrey.martynov@uqam.ca), (2) Climatic Change and Climate impacts, University of Geneva, Route de Drize 7, Carouge, 1227, Switzerland (stephane.goyette@unige.ch), (3) Moscow State University, Research Computing Center, Faculty of Geography, Leninskie Gory, building 4, Moscow, GSP-1, 119991, Russia (vstepanenkomeister@gmail.com), (4) Auburn University, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn Alabama 36849-5337, USA (xing.fang@auburn.edu), (5) Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Dept. Limnology of Stratified Waters, Alte Fischerhutte 2, 16775 Stechlin-Neuglobsow, Germany (k.joehnk@igb-berlin.de), (6) Deutscher Wetterdienst, Forschung und Entwicklung, FE14; Frankfurter Str. 135, D-63067 Offenbach am Main, Germany (Dmitrii.Mironov@dwd.de)