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The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): simulation design and preliminary results

Journal

GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 8, Issue 10, Pages 3379-3392

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COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-3379-2015

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Funding

  1. Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER)
  2. Battelle Memorial Institute [DE-AC05-76RL01830]
  3. NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at Goddard Space Flight Center
  4. NSF [AGS-1157525, GEO-1240507]
  5. National Science Foundation
  6. UK DECC/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme [GA01101]
  7. Norwegian Research Council [229760/E10]
  8. priority program 1689 of the German Research Foundation within project CEIBRAL
  9. Norwegian Research Council project NAPEX [229778]
  10. SOUSEI program, MEXT, Japan
  11. Directorate For Geosciences [1240507] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  12. Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1157525] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We present a suite of new climate model experiment designs for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). This set of experiments, named GeoMIP6 (to be consistent with the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6), builds on the previous GeoMIP project simulations, and has been expanded to address several further important topics, including key uncertainties in extreme events, the use of geoengineering as part of a portfolio of responses to climate change, and the relatively new idea of cirrus cloud thinning to allow more longwave radiation to escape to space. We discuss experiment designs, as well as the rationale for those designs, showing preliminary results from individual models when available. We also introduce a new feature, called the GeoMIP Testbed, which provides a platform for simulations that will be performed with a few models and subsequently assessed to determine whether the proposed experiment designs will be adopted as core (Tier 1) GeoMIP experiments. This is meant to encourage various stakeholders to propose new targeted experiments that address their key open science questions, with the goal of making GeoMIP more relevant to a broader set of communities.

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