Open AccessCMIP5 Scientific Gaps and Recommendations for CMIP6
Author(s) -
Ronald J. Stouffer,
Veronika Eyring,
Gerald A. Meehl,
Sandrine Bony,
C. A. Senior,
Björn Stevens,
Karl E. Taylor
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of the american meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.367
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1520-0477
pISSN - 0003-0007
DOI - 10.1175/bams-d-15-00013.1
Subject(s) - coupled model intercomparison project , predictability , scope (computer science) , climate model , earth system science , radiative forcing , environmental science , climate science , climatology , forcing (mathematics) , climate change , climate system , downscaling , computer science , geology , oceanography , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is an ongoing coordinated international activity of numerical experimentation of unprecedented scope and impact on climate science. Its most recent fifth phase, CMIP5, has created nearly two petabytes of output from dozens of experiments performed by dozens of comprehensive climate models available to the climate science research community. In so doing, it has greatly advanced climate science. While CMIP5 has given answers to important science questions, with the help of a community survey we identify and motivate three broad topics here that guided the scientific framework of the next phase of CMIP, i.e. CMIP6