TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP)
AU - Griffies, Stephen M.
AU - Danabasoglu, Gokhan
AU - Durack, Paul J.
AU - Adcroft, Alistair J.
AU - Balaji, V.
AU - Böning, Claus W.
AU - Chassignet, Eric P.
AU - Curchitser, Enrique
AU - Deshayes, Julie
AU - Drange, Helge
AU - Fox-Kemper, Baylor
AU - Gleckler, Peter J.
AU - Gregory, Jonathan M.
AU - Haak, Helmuth
AU - Hallberg, Robert W.
AU - Hewitt, Helene T.
AU - Holland, David M.
AU - Ilyina, Tatiana
AU - Jungclaus, Johann H.
AU - Komuro, Yoshiki
AU - Krasting, John P.
AU - Large, William G.
AU - Marsland, Simon J.
AU - Masina, Simona
AU - McDougall, Trevor J.
AU - George Nurser, A. J.
AU - Orr, James C.
AU - Pirani, Anna
AU - Qiao, Fangli
AU - Stouffer, Ronald J.
AU - Taylor, Karl E.
AU - Treguier, Anne Marie
AU - Tsujino, Hiroyuki
AU - Uotila, Petteri
AU - Valdivieso, Maria
AU - Winton, Michael
AU - Yeager, Stephen G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) aims to provide a framework for evaluating, understanding, and improving the ocean and sea-ice components of global climate and earth system models contributing to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses these aims in two complementary manners: (A) by providing an experimental protocol for global ocean/sea-ice models run with a prescribed atmospheric forcing, (B) by providing a protocol for ocean diagnostics to be saved as part of CMIP6. We focus here on the physical component of OMIP, with a companion paper (Orr et al., 2016) offering details for the inert chemistry and interactive biogeochemistry. The physical portion of the OMIP experimental protocol follows that of the interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II). Since 2009, CORE-I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE-II have become the standard method to evaluate global ocean/sea-ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability. The OMIP diagnostic protocol is relevant for any ocean model component of CMIP6, including the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima experiments), historical simulations, FAFMIP (Flux Anomaly Forced MIP), C4MIP (Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate MIP), DAMIP (Detection and Attribution MIP), DCPP (Decadal Climate Prediction Project), ScenarioMIP (Scenario MIP), as well as the ocean-sea ice OMIP simulations. The bulk of this paper offers scientific rationale for saving these diagnostics.
AB - The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) aims to provide a framework for evaluating, understanding, and improving the ocean and sea-ice components of global climate and earth system models contributing to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses these aims in two complementary manners: (A) by providing an experimental protocol for global ocean/sea-ice models run with a prescribed atmospheric forcing, (B) by providing a protocol for ocean diagnostics to be saved as part of CMIP6. We focus here on the physical component of OMIP, with a companion paper (Orr et al., 2016) offering details for the inert chemistry and interactive biogeochemistry. The physical portion of the OMIP experimental protocol follows that of the interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II). Since 2009, CORE-I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE-II have become the standard method to evaluate global ocean/sea-ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability. The OMIP diagnostic protocol is relevant for any ocean model component of CMIP6, including the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima experiments), historical simulations, FAFMIP (Flux Anomaly Forced MIP), C4MIP (Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate MIP), DAMIP (Detection and Attribution MIP), DCPP (Decadal Climate Prediction Project), ScenarioMIP (Scenario MIP), as well as the ocean-sea ice OMIP simulations. The bulk of this paper offers scientific rationale for saving these diagnostics.
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U2 - 10.5194/gmd-2016-77
DO - 10.5194/gmd-2016-77
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075145884
SN - 1991-959X
VL - 9
JO - Geoscientific Model Development
JF - Geoscientific Model Development
ER -