EC-Earth3
EC-Earth3 is developed by the EC-Earth consortium. There are eight different (tuned) EC-Earth3 configurations which ares used for climate change projections, predictions and process studies. EC-Earth3 is prepared for the 6th phase of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6).
EC-Earth3 configurations
| EC-Earth3 configuration | atmosphere | ocean | vegetation | atmospheric chemistry | marine biogeo-chemistry | land ice | CMIP6 MIP list in which the configuration participated |
| 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 EC-Earth3 model description paper is published in GMD:
- Döscher et al.: 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.
The EC-Earth3-AerChem model description paper is published in GMD:
- van Noije et al: 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.