A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA) climate model and control run
FAMOUS is an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model of low resolution, capable of simulating approximately 120 years of model climate per wallclock day using current high performance computing facilities. It uses most of the same code as HadCM3, a widely used climate model of higher resolution a...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:3b57bd7051b74fc5a31f6f70c4441960 2023-05-15T18:18:23+02:00 A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA) climate model and control run A. Osprey R. S. Smith J. M. Gregory 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/3b57bd7051b74fc5a31f6f70c4441960 EN eng Copernicus Publications http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/1/53/2008/gmd-1-53-2008.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1991-959X https://doaj.org/toc/1991-9603 1991-959X 1991-9603 https://doaj.org/article/3b57bd7051b74fc5a31f6f70c4441960 Geoscientific Model Development, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 53-68 (2008) Geology QE1-996.5 article 2008 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T01:24:24Z FAMOUS is an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model of low resolution, capable of simulating approximately 120 years of model climate per wallclock day using current high performance computing facilities. It uses most of the same code as HadCM3, a widely used climate model of higher resolution and computational cost, and has been tuned to reproduce the same climate reasonably well. FAMOUS is useful for climate simulations where the computational cost makes the application of HadCM3 unfeasible, either because of the length of simulation or the size of the ensemble desired. We document a number of scientific and technical improvements to the original version of FAMOUS. These improvements include changes to the parameterisations of ozone and sea-ice which alleviate a significant cold bias from high northern latitudes and the upper troposphere, and the elimination of volume-averaged drifts in ocean tracers. A simple model of the marine carbon cycle has also been included. A particular goal of FAMOUS is to conduct millennial-scale paleoclimate simulations of Quaternary ice ages; to this end, a number of useful changes to the model infrastructure have been made. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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FAMOUS is an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model of low resolution, capable of simulating approximately 120 years of model climate per wallclock day using current high performance computing facilities. It uses most of the same code as HadCM3, a widely used climate model of higher resolution and computational cost, and has been tuned to reproduce the same climate reasonably well. FAMOUS is useful for climate simulations where the computational cost makes the application of HadCM3 unfeasible, either because of the length of simulation or the size of the ensemble desired. We document a number of scientific and technical improvements to the original version of FAMOUS. These improvements include changes to the parameterisations of ozone and sea-ice which alleviate a significant cold bias from high northern latitudes and the upper troposphere, and the elimination of volume-averaged drifts in ocean tracers. A simple model of the marine carbon cycle has also been included. A particular goal of FAMOUS is to conduct millennial-scale paleoclimate simulations of Quaternary ice ages; to this end, a number of useful changes to the model infrastructure have been made. |
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A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA) climate model and control run |
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A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA) climate model and control run |
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A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA) climate model and control run |
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A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA) climate model and control run |
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