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Title: Preindustrial Control Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6

Journal Article · · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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  1. Met Office Exeter (United Kingdom). Met Office Hadley Centre; Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). LOCEAN/IPSL
  2. Univ. of Reading (United Kingdom). Dept. of Meterology
  3. Met Office Exeter (United Kingdom). Met Office Hadley Centre
  4. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
  5. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). LOCEAN/IPSL
  6. Met Office Exeter (United Kingdom). Met Office Hadley Centre; European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts, Reading (United Kingdom)

Preindustrial control simulations with the third Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model,run in the Global Coupled configuration 3.1 of the Met Office Unified Model (HadGEM3-GC3.1) are presentedat two resolutions. These are N216ORCA025, which has a horizontal resolution of 60 km in the atmosphereand 0.25° in the ocean, and N96ORCA1, which has a horizontal resolution of 130 km in the atmosphereand 1° in the ocean. The aim of this study is to document the climate variability in these simulations, makecomparisons against present-day observations (albeit under different forcing), and discuss differencesarising due to resolution. In terms of interannual variability in the leading modes of climate variability thetwo resolutions behave generally very similarly. Notable differences are in the westward extent of El Niñoand the pattern of Atlantic multidecadal variability, in which N216ORCA025 compares more favorably toobservations, and in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which is far too weak in N216ORCA025. In the NorthAtlantic region, N216ORCA025 has a stronger and deeper Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, whichcompares well against observations, and reduced biases in temperature and salinity in the North Atlanticsubpolar gyre. These simulations are being provided to the sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project(CMIP6) and provide a baseline against which further forced experiments may be assessed.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Organization:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (United Kingdom); Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) (United Kingdom); European Commission (EC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (United Kingdom); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
OSTI ID:
1565753
Journal Information:
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal Name: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 10; ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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