12th Session of the Working Group on Coupled Modelling

September 22-24 2008, Paris, France

Presentations and Reports

Agenda
List of Participants
Links to relevant documents and information

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Presentations

DAY 1 - Monday, September 22

Reports and news from governing groups

-Report on JSC outcomes relevant to WGCM - G.Flato
-Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) - G.Flato

Presentation and discussion of the proposed CMIP5 coordinated climate change experiments to be assessed for IPCC AR5 leading to approval of experimental design by WGCM

-Introduction to CMIP5 coordinated climate change experiments proposed by WGCM/AIMES to be assessed as part of the IPCC AR5 - G. Meehl
-RCPs and the data handshake between IAMs - K. Hibbard
-A Project for Decadal Prediction - G. Boer
-Detail on design of short term experiments - J. Murphy
-CMIP5 “Long term” Experiment Design - K. Taylor

Proposed coordination of experimental design with other activities; presentations of proposals from related communities

-Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project – Phase 2: Recommendations for Advancing Assessments of Cloud-Climate Feedbacks - S. Bony
-Effect of Chemistry in Climate Simulations and SPARC/AC&C Data Sets for CMIP5 - V. Eyring
-Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Phase II, towards Phase III - P. Braconnot
-Report on an ongoing discussion on a coordinated RCM effort to enhance the input into the AR5 and to the impact community - F. Giorgi
-A new framework for parametrization research in WCRP - C. Jakob
-WGOMD Report to WGCM - S. Griffies
-Report on Ice Sheet Modelling Activities - D. Holland (pdf)

DAY 2 - Tuesday, September 23

-CMIP5 Experiment Design Summary - K. Taylor (pdf)

Updates from modeling centers

-Plans for CMIP5 from IPSL - J.L. Dufresne
-Plans from Météo-France/CNRM and CERFACS for CMIP5 - D. Salas-Mélia
-CMIP5 plans at MPI-M - M. Giorgetta
-Status of CCCma Climate and Earth System Models - G. Flato
-INGV-CMCC Climate Scenario Simulations (a possible contribution to CMIP5) - S. Gualdi (pdf)
-Update on modelling systems relevant to IPCC in Australia - A. Hirst
-Update on Japanese activity for climate projection - M. Kimoto
-Research activity of global warming projection at MRI, Japan - S Kusunoki
-Met Office Hadley Centre CMIP5 runs - C. Jones
-Decadal predictability and near-term climate change experiments with HiGEM - L. Shaffrey
-Modeling plans at NCAR involving the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) - G. Meehl
-GFDL Modeling Activities - R. Stouffer
-GMAO Participation in CMIP-5 - M Suarez
-Plan for ESM Development and CMIP5 Participation in Korea - W.T. Kwon
-LASG Climate system models and climate change simulations - T. Zhou
-The BCC-CSM development and application for CMIP5 - T. Wu
-Global coupled climate modelling initiatives at the Danish Climate Centre (Danish Meteorological Institute) - W. May
-The Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM) - M. Bentsen
-EC-Earth - C. Jones

Summary of modeling center presentations on CMIP5 participation (kindly prepared by V. Eyring) - download Pdf

DAY 3 - Wednesday, September 24

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

-Earth System Grid Development: meeting AR5 needs - D. Bader
-CF-conventions news, Metrics panel formed, CMIP5 standard output - K. Taylor

WGCM Discussion topics

-Regional climate prediction- what are the issues and how should they be addressed by WCRP? - F. Giorgi

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Reports

There will not be time for all invited experts to give a separate talk, but we would very much like everyone to submit a short document-preferably one page with bullet points - on the work of the group they represent which is relevant to these topics. This will also allow more time for debate on the key topics and for contributions from invited experts to the discussion of the key topics.

CMIP5 Experimental Design

Author	Title
K. Taylor, R. Stouffer et al.	A Summary of Experiments Proposed for CMIP5
K. Taylor	Pre-WGCM letter on CMIP5 experimental design
IDAG Community	Input from the detection and attribution scientists
S. Griffies et al.	Sampling Physical Ocean Fields in WCRP CMIP5 Simulations (under revision)
R. Mizuta et al.	Estimation of Future Distribution of Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Using CMIP3 Multi-model Ensemble Mean
V. Eyring et al.	SPARC CCMVal contribution to CMIP5
G. Bodeker et al.	A consensus observational stratospheric ozone database for constraining and validating GCM and ESM simulations for CMIP5

Submitted Reports

Author	Title
D. Holland and J. Gregory	Report on Ice Sheet Modeling Activities
S. Bony et al.	The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project: Summary of Activities and Recommendations for Advancing Assessments of Cloud-Climate Feedbacks - SUMMARY
S. Bony et al.	The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project: Summary of Activities and Recommendations for Advancing Assessments of Cloud-Climate Feedbacks - FULL PROPOSAL
P. Braconnot et al.	A Summary of Experiments Proposed by PMIP3
P. Braconnot et al.	PMIP flyer

Modeling Center Updates

Author	Title
M. Giorgetta	MPI-M Preparations for the proposed experimental design of CMIP5
W. May and S. Yang	Global coupled climate modelling initiatives at the Danish Climate Centre (Danish Meteorological Institute)
S. Kusunoki	Research activity of global warming projection in Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan
T. Wu and Z. Wang	The BCC-CSM development and application for CMIP5
D. Salas and S. Planton	CNRM-CM global coupled model: previous modelling initiatives and preparation for CMIP5
B. Wang, T. Zhou, Y. Yu and G. Wu	LASG Climate system models and climate change simulations
C. Jones, J. Murphy and J. Mitchell	Plans for AR5 simulations from the Met Office Hadley Centre
J. -L. Dufresne	Plans for CMIP5 from Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)
G. Meehl	Plans for NCAR modeling with the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) for 2008-2009
W.-T. Kwon and Y.-H. Byun	KMA’s Plan for CMIP5 and Climate Modeling Initiatives

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last updated Fri, Oct 10, 2008 by Anna Pirani