Models Represented in NOAA's Climate Change Web Portal:
We acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modeling groups listed below for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led development of software infrastructure in partnership with the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals.
More information on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) and the 5th Assessment of the IPCC can be found here.
| Modeling Center | Model | Institution | terms of use |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCC | BCC-CSM1.1 BCC-CSM1.1(m) |
Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration | unrestricted |
| CCCma | CanESM2 | Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis | unrestricted |
| CMCC | CMCC-CESM CMCC-CM |
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per I Cambiamenti Climatici | non-commercial only |
| CNRM-CERFACS | CNRM-CM5 | Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques / Centre Europeen de Recherche et Formation Avancees en Calcul Scientifique | unrestricted |
| CSIRO-BOM | ACCESS1.0 ACCESS1.3 |
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia), and BOM (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia) | non-commercial only |
| CSIRO-QCCCE | CSIRO-Mk3.6.0 | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in collaboration with the Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence | non-commercial only |
| EC-EARTH | EC-EARTH | EC-EARTH consortium | unrestricted |
| FIO | FIO-ESM | The First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China | non-commercial only |
| GCESS | BNU-ESM | College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University | unrestricted |
| INM | INM-CM4 | Institute for Numerical Mathematics | unrestricted |
| IPSL | IPSL-CM5A-LR IPSL-CM5A-MR IPSL-CM5B-LR |
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace | unrestricted |
| LASG-CESS | FGOALS-g2 | LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and CESS, Tsinghua University | unrestricted |
| LASG-IAP | FGOALS-s2 | LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | unrestricted |
| MIROC |
MIROC5 |
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology | non-commercial only |
| MIROC | MIROC-ESM MIROC-ESM-CHEM |
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (The University of Tokyo), and National Institute for Environmental Studies | non-commercial only |
| MOHC (additional realizations by INPE) |
HadGEM2-AO HadGEM2-CC HadGEM2-ES |
Met Office Hadley Centre (additional HadGEM2-ES realizations contributed by Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) | unrestricted |
| MPI-M |
MPI-ESM-LR MPI-ESM-MR | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) | unrestricted |
| MRI |
MRI-CGCM3 |
Meteorological Research Institute | non-commercial only |
| NASA GISS | GISS-E2-H GISS-E2-R | NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | unrestricted |
| NCAR | CCSM4 | National Center for Atmospheric Research | unrestricted |
| NCC | NorESM1-M NorESM1-ME |
Norwegian Climate Centre | unrestricted |
| NOAA GFDL |
GFDL-CM3 GFDL-ESM2G GFDL-ESM2M |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory | unrestricted |
| NSF-DOE-NCAR | CESM1(BGC) CESM1(CAM5) |
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Center for Atmospheric Research | unrestricted |
Experiments
The CMIP5 experiements represented in NOAA's Climate Change Portal are the Historical, RCP4.5 and the RCP8.5. The historical experiments are forced with observed climate forcing (CO2, volcanos, solar activity) through the year 2005. The two future experiments are defined by strength of the radiative forcing in 2100, aka "representative concentration pathways" or RCPs. The CO2 emissions and the radiative forcing for each RCP are shown in the following figure.
More details on RCPs can be found in this paper.
We acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modeling groups listed here for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led development of software infrastructure in partnership with the Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals.
More information on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) and the 5th Assessment of the IPCC can be found here.
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