| Models, model runs and model output of use in the context of
RAPID Climate Change projects 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/… |
| Hadley Centre | HadAM3 | AGCM | Troposphere + stratosphere |
Brian Hoskins, Reading | Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | ||||
| HadCM3 | OAGCM | 0.25 deg | 1000-year control run (available from BADC) | Hadley Centre | Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | ||||
| Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | |||||||||
| Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | |||||||||
| 100-year runs | ? | Sandy Tudhope, Edinburgh | 443 | |||||||
| Various long-term scenarios | Michael Vellinga, Richard Wood & Simon Tett, Hadley Centre |
Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | |||||||
| Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | |||||||||
| Keith Briffa, UEA | 440 | |||||||||
| Peter Challenor, SOC | 450 | |||||||||
| + fresh water forcing | ? | Eric Wolff, BAS | 430 | |||||||
| + isotopes module | Paul Valdes, Bristol | Eric Wolff, BAS | 430 | |||||||
| Jonathan Holmes, UCL | 460 | |||||||||
| Jonathan Bamber, Bristol | 462 | |||||||||
| Ric Williams, Liverpool | 439 | |||||||||
| 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 | ||
| Jonathan Bamber, Bristol | 462 | |||||||||
| HadCEM | OAGCM | High resolution version of HadCM3 (output ~ 10 times more voluminous) | Michael Vellinga, Hadley Centre | Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | |||||
| HadGEM | OAGCM | Under development. Physics different than the one in HadCM3 | 1000-year control run and various long-term scenarios | Hadley Centre | Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | ||||
| Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | |||||||||
| Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | |||||||||
| HiGEM | OAGCM | Project | 1000-year control run and various long-term scenarios | Hadley Centre | Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | ||||
| Eric Guilyardi, Reading | 442 | |||||||||
| SOC | FORTE | OAGCM | 40 | 4 deg x 5 deg | 1000-year control run and various long-term scenarios | Robin
Smith & Bablu Sinha, SOC |
Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | ||
| C-Goldstein | OGCM | From surface down to - 5 km |
8 | 36 x 36 grid: 10 deg longitude & ~ 5 deg latitude |
Peter Challenor, SOC | 450 | ||||
| Jonathan Bamber, Bristol | 462 | |||||||||
| 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 | |||
| ECMWF | IFS | OAGCM | ERA-40 (available from BADC) |
ECMWF | Simon Josey, SOC | 427 | ||||
| Brian Hoskins, Reading | 441 | |||||||||
| Ric Williams, Liverpool | 439 | |||||||||
| Andrew Willmott, Keele | 425 | |||||||||
| BAS | BAS model | Ice core model | Eric Wolff, BAS | Eric Wolff, BAS | 430 | |||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| GKSS | GKSS, Hamburg, Germany | |||||||||
| IFS | Integrated Forecast System (ECMWF model) | |||||||||
| MIH | Meteorologisches Institut Hamburg, Germany | |||||||||
| OAGCM | Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Model | |||||||||
| SOC | Southampton Oceanographic Centre | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||