DOE/UCAR Cooperative Agreement for the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
This progress report describes research supported by Cooperative Agreement between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER). The purpose of the Cooperative Agreement is to provide support for an integrated research program to address key science questions relevant to the DOE Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program as part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The Cooperative Agreement funds four tasks that address key aspects of climate science, and this report provides a summary of activities for each task during the past year. As part of the Cooperative Agreement supported science, the Climate Change Prediction (CCP) group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), provides leadership to the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Climate Variability and Change Working Group (CVCWG) through co-chairs Gerald Meehl and Susan Bates (with DOE-funded co-chair Peter Gleckler, along with Clara Deser and Shang-Ping Xie). Over the past year CCP has played a leadership role in performing climate change simulations and analyses with the Community Climate System Model version 4 (CCSM4) and CESM version 1. These simulations and analyses made strong contributions to the federal USGCRP in several high priority areas. We have also been involved in planning for the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) which started in 2015. Simulations from CMIP6 will form the basis for ongoing U.S. National Assessment activities, and the IPCC AR6.
- Research Organization:
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO (United States); National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC02-97ER62402; FG02-13ER62402
- OSTI ID:
- 1511280
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-NCAR-62402
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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