Implementation of an orographic drag scheme considering orographic anisotropy in all flow directions in the Earth System Model CAS‐ESM 2.0

Abstract. The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool designed to improve comprehensive and routine evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). It has undergone rapid development since the first release in 2016 and is now a well-tested tool that provides end-to-end provenance tracking to ensure reproducibility. It consists of (1) an easy-to-install, well-documented Python package providing the core functionalities (ESMValCore) that performs common preprocessing operations and (2) a diagnostic part that includes tailored diagnostics and performance metrics for specific scientific applications. Here we describe large-scale diagnostics of the second major release of the tool that supports the evaluation of ESMs participating in CMIP Phase 6 (CMIP6). ESMValTool v2.0 includes a large collection of diagnostics and performance metrics for atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables for the mean state, trends, and variability. ESMValTool v2.0 also successfully reproduces figures from the evaluation and projections chapters of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and incorporates updates from targeted analysis packages, such as the NCAR Climate Variability Diagnostics Package for the evaluation of modes of variability, the Thermodynamic Diagnostic Tool (TheDiaTo) to evaluate the energetics of the climate system, as well as parts of AutoAssess that contains a mix of top–down performance metrics. The tool has been fully integrated into the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) infrastructure at the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) to provide evaluation results from CMIP6 model simulations shortly after the output is published to the CMIP archive. A result browser has been implemented that enables advanced monitoring of the evaluation results by a broad user community at much faster timescales than what was possible in CMIP5.

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The EC-Earth3 Earth System Model for the Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6

10.5194/gmd-2020-446 ◽

2021 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ralf Döscher ◽

Mario Acosta ◽

Andrea Alessandri ◽

Peter Anthoni ◽

Almut Arneth ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Performance ◽

Performance Metrics ◽

Climate Model ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Historical Period ◽

Earth System ◽

Dynamic Features ◽

The Earth ◽

Intercomparison Project

Abstract. The Earth System Model EC-Earth3 for contributions to CMIP6 is documented here, with its flexible coupling framework, major model configurations, a methodology for ensuring the simulations are comparable across different HPC systems, and with the physical performance of base configurations over the historical period. The variety of possible configurations and sub-models reflects the broad interests in the EC-Earth community. EC-Earth3 key performance metrics demonstrate physical behaviour and biases well within the frame known from recent CMIP models. With improved physical and dynamic features, new ESM components, community tools, and largely improved physical performance compared to the CMIP5 version, EC-Earth3 represents a clear step forward for the only European community ESM. We demonstrate here that EC-Earth3 is suited for a range of tasks in CMIP6 and beyond.

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Erratum to: The earth system model of intermediate complexity CLIMBER-3α. Part I: description and performance for present-day conditions

Climate Dynamics ◽

10.1007/s00382-009-0677-6 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 151-151

Author(s):

Marisa Montoya ◽

Alexa Griesel ◽

Anders Levermann ◽

Juliette Mignot ◽

Matthias Hofmann ◽

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Keyword(s):

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Intermediate Complexity ◽

The Earth ◽

And Performance

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Recent developments on the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3476 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bouwe Andela ◽

Fakhereh Alidoost ◽

Lukas Brunner ◽

Jaro Camphuijsen ◽

Bas Crezee ◽

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Keyword(s):

Model Evaluation ◽

Performance Metrics ◽

Climate Model ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Evaluation Tool ◽

Scientific Review ◽

The Earth ◽

User Friendly

The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a free and open-source community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models such as those participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Version 2 of the tool (Righi et al. 2020, www.esmvaltool.org) features a brand new design composed of a core that finds and processes data according to a &#8216;recipe&#8217; and an extensive collection of ready-to-use recipes and associated diagnostic codes for reproducing results from published papers. Development and discussion of the tool (mostly) takes place in public on https://github.com/esmvalgroup and anyone with an interest in climate model evaluation is welcome to join there.&#160;Since the initial release of version 2 in the summer of 2020, many improvements have been made to the tool. It is now more user friendly with extensive documentation available on docs.esmvaltool.org and a step by step online tutorial. Regular releases, currently planned three times a year, ensure that recent contributions become available quickly while still ensuring a high level of quality control. The tool can be installed from conda, but portable docker and singularity containers are also available.&#160;Recent new features include a more user-friendly command-line interface, citation information per figure including CMIP6 data citation using ES-DOC, more and faster preprocessor functions that require less memory, automatic corrections for a larger number of CMIP6 datasets, support for more observational and reanalysis datasets, and more recipes and diagnostics.&#160;The tool is now also more reliable, with improved automated testing through more unit tests for the core, as well as a recipe testing service running at DKRZ for testing the scientific recipes and diagnostics that are bundled into the tool. The community maintaining and developing the tool is growing, making the project less dependent on individual contributors. There are now technical and scientific review teams that review new contributions for technical quality and scientific correctness and relevance respectively, two new principal investigators for generating a larger support base in the community, and a newly created user engagement team that is taking care of improving the overall user experience.

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Forced Climate Variability During the Last Millennium with the Earth System Model CLIMBER-2

The Climate in Historical Times - GKSS School of Environmental Research ◽

10.1007/978-3-662-10313-5_19 ◽

2004 ◽

pp. 337-350

Author(s):

Eva Bauer ◽

Martin Claußen ◽

Anja Hünerbein ◽

Victor Brovkin

Keyword(s):

Climate Variability ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Last Millennium ◽

Earth System ◽

The Earth

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The compact Earth system model OSCAR v2.2: description and first results

Geoscientific Model Development ◽

10.5194/gmd-10-271-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 271-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Thomas Gasser ◽

Philippe Ciais ◽

Olivier Boucher ◽

Yann Quilcaille ◽

Maxime Tortora ◽

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Keyword(s):

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽

Stratospheric Ozone ◽

Earth System Model ◽

Tropospheric Chemistry ◽

System Model ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Historical Period ◽

Earth System ◽

Atmospheric Concentration ◽

The Earth

Abstract. This paper provides a comprehensive description of OSCAR v2.2, a simple Earth system model. The general philosophy of development is first explained, followed by a complete description of the model's drivers and various modules. All components of the Earth system necessary to simulate future climate change are represented in the model: the oceanic and terrestrial carbon cycles – including a book-keeping module to endogenously estimate land-use change emissions – so as to simulate the change in atmospheric carbon dioxide; the tropospheric chemistry and the natural wetlands, to simulate that of methane; the stratospheric chemistry, for nitrous oxide; 37 halogenated compounds; changing tropospheric and stratospheric ozone; the direct and indirect effects of aerosols; changes in surface albedo caused by black carbon deposition on snow and land-cover change; and the global and regional response of climate – in terms of temperature and precipitation – to all these climate forcers. Following the probabilistic framework of the model, an ensemble of simulations is made over the historical period (1750–2010). We show that the model performs well in reproducing observed past changes in the Earth system such as increased atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases or increased global mean surface temperature.

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A Multitask Learning View on the Earth System Model Ensemble

Computing in Science & Engineering ◽

10.1109/mcse.2015.105 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (6) ◽

pp. 35-42

Author(s):

Andre R. Goncalves ◽

Fernando J. Von Zuben ◽

Arindam Banerjee

Keyword(s):

Multitask Learning ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Model Ensemble ◽

The Earth

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The compact Earth system model OSCAR v2.2: description and first results

10.5194/gmd-2016-149 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas Gasser ◽

Philippe Ciais ◽

Olivier Boucher ◽

Yann Quilcaille ◽

Maxime Tortora ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽

Stratospheric Ozone ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Historical Period ◽

Earth System ◽

Atmospheric Concentration ◽

Carbon Cycles ◽

The Earth

Abstract. This paper provides a comprehensive description of OSCAR v2.2, a simple Earth system model. The general philosophy of development is first explained, it is then followed by a complete description of the model's drivers and various modules. All components of the Earth system necessary to simulate future climate change are represented in the model: the oceanic and terrestrial carbon-cycles – including a book-keeping module to endogenously estimate land-use change emissions – so as to simulate the change in atmospheric carbon dioxide; the tropospheric OH chemistry and the natural wetlands, to simulate that of methane; the stratospheric chemistry, for nitrous oxide; thirty-seven halogenated compounds; changing tropospheric and stratospheric ozone; the direct and indirect effects of aerosols; changes in surface albedo caused by black carbon deposition on snow and land-cover change; and the global and regional response of climate – in terms of temperatures and precipitations – to all these climate forcers. Following the probabilistic framework of the model, an ensemble of simulations is made over the historical period (1750–2010). We show that the model performs well in reproducing observed past changes in the Earth system such as increased atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases or increased global mean surface temperature.

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Coupling the Earth system model INMCM with the biogeochemical flux model

Russian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling ◽

10.1515/rnam-2018-0027 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 325-331

Author(s):

Ilya A. Chernov ◽

Nikolay G. Iakovlev

Keyword(s):

Climate Model ◽

World Ocean ◽

Coupled Model ◽

Horizontal Resolution ◽

Ocean Model ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Time Step ◽

The Earth

Abstract In the present paper we consider the first results of modelling the World Ocean biogeochemistry system within the framework of the Earth system model: a global atmosphere-ocean-ice-land-biogeochemistry model. It is based on the INMCM climate model (version INMCM39) coupled with the pelagic ecosystem model BFM. The horizontal resolution was relatively low: 2∘ × 2.5∘ for the ‘longitude’ and ‘latitude’ in transformed coordinates with the North Pole moved to land, 33 non-equidistant σ-horizons, 1 hour time step. We have taken into account 54 main rivers worldwide with run–off supplied by the atmosphere submodel. The setup includes nine plankton groups, 60 tracers in total. Some components sink with variable speed. We discuss challenges of coupling the BFM with the σ-coordinate ocean model. The presented results prove that the model output is realistic in comparison with the observed data, the numerical efficiency is high enough, and the coupled model may serve as a basis for further simulations of the long-term climate change.

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