CCSM Climate Change Working Group: Experiments

15 June 2005 http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Change/experiments.html

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Climate Change Working Group: Experiments

This page highlights experiments conducted with CCSM3 & PCM by the CCWG or CCSM development team. Links are also provided to related CCSM3 integrations and "observational" comparison datasets. Click on the "Details" links for further information.

Model	Run Type	Res	Short Description
CCSM3	PDcntrl	T42	1000 year present-day control run, fully coupled. Details
CCSM3	PDcntrl	T85	700 year present-day control run Details
CCSM3	1% increasing CO2	T85	1% per year increasing CO2 Details
CCSM3	PIcntrl	T85	~700 year pre-industrial control run Details
CCSM3	20C3M	T85	climate of the 20th Century experiment Details
CCSM3	20C3M	T85	black carbon only Details
CCSM3	20C3M	T85	natural forcings only Details
CCSM3	20C3M	T85	anthropogenic forcings only Details
CCSM3	COMMIT	T85	committed climate change experiment Details
CCSM3	A2	T85	SRES A2 experiment Details
CCSM3	A1B	T85	SRES A1B experiment Details
CCSM3	B1	T85	SRES B1 experiment Details

Model Run Type Res Short Description

PCM1 PDcntrl T42 300 year present-day control and idealised 1%/yr increasing CO₂ experiments Details

PCM1 PIcntrl T42 1400 year pre-industrial control run Details

PCM1 20thC T42 various 20thC experiments Details

PCM1 21stC T42 SRES scenarios Details

Click here for recent experiments with the CCSM3 (internal users only)

Observational Comparison Datasets
ERA 40	ECMWF 40 year reanalysis. Data is available at T85 resolution in netCDF and grib format, as well as model resolution and 2.5 x 2.5 degree resolutions. Sep. 1957 - Aug 2003
NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis	NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data is available on many different grids at: CDC (2.5° x 2.5° / T62, netCDF) \| NCAR's DSS (various grids, GRIB) \| IRI (2.5° x 2.5° / T62, netCDF). Jan. 1948 - present