Models, model runs and model output of use in the context of
RAPID Climate Change projects (v2 Kevin Marsh ,BADC, January 2007) (v1 Anne De Rudder, BADC, February 2004) |
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Institution where model has been / is being developed | Model name | Model type | Model characteristics | Depth / height range |
Number of levels | Horizontal resolution | Model configuration and run specificities | Runs performed by |
Model results used by |
Project ID number NER/T/S/2002/… |
Funding Round |
Hadley Centre | HadAM3 | AGCM | Troposphere + stratosphere |
Brian Hoskins, Reading | Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | 1 | ||||
HadCM3 | OAGCM | 0.25 deg | 1000-year control run (available from BADC) | Hadley Centre | Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | 1 | ||||
Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | 1 | |||||||||
Simon Josey NOCS | 427 | 1 | |||||||||
100-year runs | ? | Sandy Tudhope, Edinburgh | 443 | 1 | |||||||
Various long-term scenarios | Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood & Simon Tett, Hadley Centre |
Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | 1 | |||||||
Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | 1 | |||||||||
Keith Briffa, UEA | 440 | 1 | |||||||||
Peter Challenor,NOCS | 450 | 1 | |||||||||
+ fresh water forcing | ? | Eric Wolff, BAS | 430 | 1 | |||||||
+ isotopes module | Paul Valdes, Bristol | Eric Wolff, BAS | 430 | 1 | |||||||
Jonathan Holmes, UCL | 460 | 1 | |||||||||
Jonathan Bamber, Bristol | 462 | 1 | |||||||||
Ric Williams, Liverpool | 439 | 1 | |||||||||
FAMOUS | OAGCM | Low resolution version of HadCM3 (~ 10 times faster) |
Atmosphere: 11 | Atmosphere: 5 deg x 7.5 deg Ocean: 2.5 deg x 3.75 deg |
+ isotopes module | Paul Valdes, Bristol | Jonathan Holmes, UCL | 460 | 1 | ||
Jonathan Bamber, Bristol | 462 | 1 | |||||||||
HadCEM | OAGCM | High resolution version of HadCM3 (output ~ 10 times more voluminous) | Michael Vellinga, Hadley Centre | Simon Josey, NOCS | 427 | 1 | |||||
HadGEM | OAGCM | Under development. Physics different than the one in HadCM3 | 1000-year control run and various long-term scenarios | Hadley Centre | Simon Josey, NOCS | 427 | 1 | ||||
Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | 1 | |||||||||
Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | 1 | |||||||||
HiGEM | OAGCM | Project | 1000-year control run and various long-term scenarios | Hadley Centre | Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | 1 | ||||
Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | 1 | |||||||||
NOCS | FORTE | OAGCM | 40 | 4 deg x 5 deg | 1000-year control run and various long-term scenarios | Robin
Smith & Bablu Sinha, SOC |
Simon Josey,NOCS | 427 | 1 | ||
C-Goldstein | OGCM | From surface down to - 5 km |
8 | 36 x 36 grid: 10 deg longitude & ~ 5 deg latitude |
Peter Challenor,NOCS | 450 | 1 | ||||
Jonathan Bamber, Bristol | 462 | 1 | |||||||||
MIH | ECHO-G | OAGCM | HOPE
= Ocean component ECHAM4 = Atmosphere component |
1000-year control run + various long-term scenarios (for SO&P) | Hans von Storch, GKSS | Keith Briffa, UEA | 440 | 1 | |||
ECMWF | IFS | OAGCM | ERA-40 (available from BADC) |
ECMWF | Simon Josey,NOCS | 427 | 1 | ||||
Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | 1 | |||||||||
Ric Williams, Liverpool | 439 | 1 | |||||||||
Andrew Willmott, Keele | 425 | 1 | |||||||||
BAS | BAS model | Ice core model | Eric Wolff, BAS | Eric Wolff, BAS | 430 | 1 | |||||
Hadley Centre | HadGEM1 HadCEM |
OAGCM | HadGEM atmos with HadCEM bathymetry | 40 | 1/3 degree | 40 years | Keith Haines, ESSC | Keith Haines, ESSC | NE/C509058/1 | 2 | |
Hadley Centre | HadRM3 | RCM | Brian Hoskins, Reading | Brian Hoskins, Reading | NE/C509115/1 | 2 | |||||
Paris Co-I | Box model | Simple box model of ocean ventillation scenarios | Paris Co-I | WIlliam Austin, (St Andrews) | NE/C000137/1 | 2 | |||||
Hadley Centre | HadCM3 | OAGCM | Various | Rowan Sutton, Reading | Rowan Sutton, Reading | NE/C509174/1 | 2 | ||||
MIT | MIT | OGCM | 1 degress, 0.5 degree | David Marshall, UEA | David Marshall, UEA | NE/C509266/1 | 2 | ||||
NOCS | OCCAM | OCGM | 1/12 degree, 1/4 degree | Model forced by NCEP | Sheldon Bacon, NOCS |
Sheldon Bacon, NOCS |
NE/C509307/1 | 2 | |||
Various | HadCM FAMOUS UVIC, FRUGAL HadGEM1 |
OAGCM | various | various | THC Model intercomparison project (THCMIP) | Various | Jonathan Gregory, Hadley Centre | NE/C509366/1 | 2 | ||
KNMI | RACMO2 | RCM | 11-16km resolution | 45 years to match era-40 | Michiel Van den Broeke , Utrect | Michiel Van den Broeke , Utrect | NE/C509747/1 | Joint AO | |||
/Netherlands |
HadAM3, HadCM3, ECBILT |
OAGCM | 5x5 deg | Tim Osborn, UEA | Tim Osborn, UEA | NE/C509507/1 | Joint AO | ||||
Sheffield | FRUGAL | ICM/Ice flow model | 2x1.5 deg in far field, 0.5 deg in arcti. | Grant Bigg, Sheffield | Grant Bigg, Sheffield | NE/C509523/1 | Joint AO | ||||
Bristol/ECBILT | FAMOUS/CLIO | Sandy Harrison, Bristol | Sandy Harrison, Bristol |
NE/C509558/1 | Joint AO | ||||||
ESSC (Readong) | NEMO | Ocean | Greg Smith, ESSC | Keith Haines, Reading | NE/C509058/1 | 2 | |||||
Acronyms | |||||||||||
AGCM | Atmospheric General Circulation Model | ||||||||||
BADC | British Atmospheric Data Centre | ||||||||||
BAS | British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge | ||||||||||
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, Reading | ||||||||||
ESSC | Environmental Systems Science Centre | ||||||||||
GKSS | GKSS, Hamburg, Germany | ||||||||||
IFS | Integrated Forecast System (ECMWF model) | ||||||||||
MIH | Meteorologisches Institut Hamburg, Germany | ||||||||||
OAGCM | Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Model | ||||||||||
NOCS | National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton | ||||||||||
SO&P | Simulations, Observations & Palæoclimatic Data: Climate Variability over the Last 500 Years, international project funded by the European Commission | ||||||||||
UCL | University College, London | ||||||||||
UEA | University of East Anglia, Norwich | ||||||||||