12th session of the Working Group on Coupled Modelling
Paris, France - 22-24 September 2008
Presentations and reports are available on the " JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling" website
The WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling leads the development of coupled ocean/atmosphere/land models used for climate studies on longer time-scales. Activities in this area concentrate on the identification of errors in model climate simulations and exploring the means for their reduction by organizing coordinated model experiments under standard conditions.
WGCM also promotes the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), aiming to understand natural climate variability on decadal to centennial time scales and its predictability, and to achieve more confident projections of the response of the climate system to changes in natural and anthropogenic forcing. The Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) also facilitated controlled simulations of the ten-year period 1979-1988 by thirty different atmospheric models under specified conditions. The comparison of the results with observations has shown the capability of many models to represent adequately mean seasonal states and large-scale interannual variability.
WGCM is WCRP's link to the Earth system modelling in IGBP's Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System (AIMES) and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
For more information on WCRP Modelling activities, please click here.
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