ModE-Sim - A medium size AGCM ensemble to study climate variability during the modern era (1420 to 2009): Set 1420-2

doi:10.26050/WDCC/ModE-Sim_s14202

Hand, Ralf et al.

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Summary
ModE-Sim (short for Modern Era Simulations) is a medium-size ensemble of model simulations using the ECHAM6 atmosphere general circulation model (model version 6.3.5p2, https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/models/mpi-esm/echam). Its setup is based on the PMIP4 experiments, but uses a forced AGCM rather than a fully coupled model.

ModE-Sim was originally designed to form the a-priori state for a climate reconstruction (Modern Era Reanalysis, ModE-RA, to be found as separate experiment within this WDC project) that uses an offline data assimilation technique to combine the output of ModE-Sim with historical climate information. However, beyond its original purpose ModE-Sim on its own can be used as a tool to study climate variability, providing a high number of posible climate states that are physically plausible under the given forcings and boundary conditions. This might include, e.g. the separation of internal variability from the response to externally forced signals, understanding of teleconnection patterns, or the study of extreme events.

The ensemble uses observed/reconstructed forcings and boundary conditions, while accounting in uncertainties in these. For 1420 to 1850 we provide a 60 member ensemble grouped in three subsets. The subset 1420-2 provided in this dataset group has 20 members and uses a 20-member ensemble of perturbed volcanic forcings from the easy volcanic aerosol (EVA) model to account for uncertainties in the strength and the timing of volcanic eruptions. As ocean boundary condition 20 different realizations of SST reconstructions were used and for sea ice analogues were picked from the HadISST2 sea ice, based on the reconstructed SST fields.
Project
ModE (A Reanalysis (ModE-RA) and a medium-size AGCM ensemble (ModE-Sim) to study climate variability in the modern era (1420 to 2009))
Contact
Dr. Ralf Hand (
 ralf.hand@nullgiub.unibe.ch
0000-0003-4169-5016)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Brönnimann (
 stefan.broennimann@nullgiub.unibe.ch
0000-0001-9502-7991)
Additional Information
Additional information on the dataset groups and datasets in the ModE-Sim experiment
Example Runscripts for the ModE-Sim experiments
Additional information on the dataset groups and datasets in the ModE-Sim experiment
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -180 to 180 Latitude -90 to 90
Temporal Coverage
1420-01-01 to 1849-12-31 (gregorian)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Size
228.21 GiB (245035636107 Byte)
Format
NetCDF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2033-03-04
Cite as
Hand, Ralf; Brönnimann, Stefan; Samakinwa, Eric; Lipfert, Laura (2023). ModE-Sim - A medium size AGCM ensemble to study climate variability during the modern era (1420 to 2009): Set 1420-2. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/ModE-Sim_s14202

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Funding
European Commission - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Grant/Award No: 787574 - PA Palaeoreanalysis To Understand Decadal Climate Variability (PALAEO-RA)
Description
Summary:
Findable: 6 of 7 level;
Accessible: 2 of 3 level;
Interoperable: 3 of 4 level;
Reusable: 5 of 10 level
Method
F-UJI online v2.2.5 automated
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. Metrics documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4081213 Metric Version: metrics_v0.5
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Result Date
2023-01-10
Result Date
2023-04-12
Description
1. Number of data sets is correct and > 0: passed;
2. Size of every data set is > 0: passed;
3. The data sets and corresponding metadata are accessible: passed;
4. The data sizes are controlled and correct: passed;
5. The spatial-temporal coverage description (metadata) is consistent to the data, time steps are correct and the time coordinate is continuous: passed;
6. The format is correct: passed;
7. Variable description and data are consistent: passed
Method
WDCC-TQA checklist
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. The list of TQA metrics are documented in the 'WDCC User Guide for Data Publication' Chapter 8.1.1
Method Url
Result Date
2023-04-12
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[1] DOI Hand, Ralf; Samakinwa, Eric; Lipfert, Laura; Brönnimann, Stefan. (2023). ModE-Sim – a medium-sized atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) ensemble to study climate variability during the modern era (1420 to 2009). doi:10.5194/gmd-16-4853-2023

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[1] DOI Giorgetta, Marco; Roeckner, Erich; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Bader, Jurgen; Crueger, Traute; Esch, Monika; Rast, Sebastian; Kornblueh, Luis; Schmidt, Hauke; Kinne, Stefan; Hohenegger, Cathy; Möbis, Benjamin; Krismer, Thomas; Wieners, Karl-Hermann; Stevens, Bjorn. (2013). The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM6 - Model description . doi:10.17617/2.1810480
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[Entry acronym: ModE-Sim_s14202] [Entry id: 3970251]