EC-Earth3

EC-Earth3 is the third generation of the model and is also the name of the basic standard-resolution atmosphere-ocean physical model configuration. In total, there are eight different EC-Earth3 configurations, which are used for different science applications. These are the configurations with which the EC-Earth consortium has contributed to the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6).

EC-Earth3 configurations

 

Configuration name Atmosphere      Ocean      Vegetation        Atmospheric chemistry Marine biogeochemistry Land ice   CMIP6 MIP participation
  IFS NEMO LPJ-GUESS TM5 PISCES PISM  
EC-Earth3 ✔ ✔ CMIP,DCPP,LS3MIP,PAMIP,RFMIP,ScenarioMIP,VolMIP,CORDEX,DynVarMIP,SIMIP,VIACSAB
EC-Earth3-LR ✔ ✔ CMIP,PMIP
EC-Earth3-Veg ✔ ✔ ✔ CDRMIP,CMIP,LUMIP,LS3MIP,ScenarioMIP
EC-Earth3-Veg-LR ✔ ✔ ✔ CMIP,PMIP,ScenarioMIP
EC-Earth3-AerChem ✔ ✔ ✔ AerChemMIP,CMIP,RFMIP
EC-Earth3-CC ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ C4MIP,DCPP,CDRMIP,CMIP,LUMIP,OMIP,ScenarioMIP
EC-Earth3-GrisIS ✔ ✔ ✔ CMIP,ISMIP6,PMIP
EC-Earth3-HR ✔ ✔ CMIP,DCPP,HighResMIP

 

The general EC-Earth3 overview paper has been published in Geoscientific Model Development:

  • Döscher, R., Acosta, M., Alessandri, A., Anthoni, P., Arsouze, T., Bergman, T., Bernardello, R., Boussetta, S., Caron, L.-P., Carver, G., Castrillo, M., Catalano, F., Cvijanovic, I., Davini, P., Dekker, E., Doblas-Reyes, F. J., Docquier, D., Echevarria, P., Fladrich, U., Fuentes-Franco, R., Gröger, M., v. Hardenberg, J., Hieronymus, J., Karami, M. P., Keskinen, J.-P., Koenigk, T., Makkonen, R., Massonnet, F., Ménégoz, M., Miller, P. A., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Nieradzik, L., van Noije, T., Nolan, P., O'Donnell, D., Ollinaho, P., van den Oord, G., Ortega, P., Prims, O. T., Ramos, A., Reerink, T., Rousset, C., Ruprich-Robert, Y., Le Sager, P., Schmith, T., Schrödner, R., Serva, F., Sicardi, V., Sloth Madsen, M., Smith, B., Tian, T., Tourigny, E., Uotila, P., Vancoppenolle, M., Wang, S., Wårlind, D., Willén, U., Wyser, K., Yang, S., Yepes-Arbós, X., and Zhang, Q.: The EC-Earth3 Earth system model for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 2973–3020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2973-2022, 2022.

A paper describing the EC-Earth3-AerChem configuration also been published in Geoscientific Model Development:

  • van Noije, T., Bergman, T., Le Sager, P., O'Donnell, D., Makkonen, R., Gonçalves-Ageitos, M., Döscher, R., Fladrich, U., von Hardenberg, J., Keskinen, J.-P., Korhonen, H., Laakso, A., Myriokefalitakis, S., Ollinaho, P., Pérez García-Pando, C., Reerink, T., Schrödner, R., Wyser, K., and Yang, S.: EC-Earth3-AerChem: a global climate model with interactive aerosols and atmospheric chemistry participating in CMIP6, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 5637–5668, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5637-2021, 2021.