Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers

Schmidt, Gavin A.; Bader, David; Donner, Leo J.; Elsaesser, Gregory S.; Golaz, Jean -Christophe; Hannay, Cecile; Molod, Andrea; Neale, Richard B.; Saha, Suranjana

doi:10.5194/gmd-10-3207-2017

Title: Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers

Journal Article · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Geoscientific Model Development (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3207-2017· OSTI ID:1389939

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NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies (GISS), Broadway, NY (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Princeton Univ. Forrestal Campus, Princeton, NJ (United States)
NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies (GISS), Broadway, NY (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD (United States)
NCEP/NWS/NOAA, NCWCP, College Park, MD (United States)

Model calibration (or tuning) is a necessary part of developing and testing coupled ocean–atmosphere climate models regardless of their main scientific purpose. There is an increasing recognition that this process needs to become more transparent for both users of climate model output and other developers. Knowing how and why climate models are tuned and which targets are used is essential to avoiding possible misattributions of skillful predictions to data accommodation and vice versa. This paper describes the approach and practice of model tuning for the six major US climate modeling centers. While details differ among groups in terms of scientific missions, tuning targets, and tunable parameters, there is a core commonality of approaches. Furthermore, practices differ significantly on some key aspects, in particular, in the use of initialized forecast analyses as a tool, the explicit use of the historical transient record, and the use of the present-day radiative imbalance vs. the implied balance in the preindustrial era as a target.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

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Journal Information:: Geoscientific Model Development (Online), Vol. 10, Issue 9; ISSN 1991-9603

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