UK-HiGEM: The New U.K. High Resolution Global Environment Model - Model description and basic evaluation

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Shaffrey, L.C., Norton, W.A., Vidale, P.L., Demory, M.E., Donners, J., Cole, J.W., Wilson, S.S., Slingo, J.M., Steenman-Clark, L., Stevens, I., Stevens, D.P., Roberts, M.J., Clayton, A., Johns, T.C., Martin, G.M., Harle, J.D., New, A.L., Jrrar, A., Connolley, W.M., King, J.C., Woodage, J., Slingo, A., Clark, D.B., Davies, T.M., Iwi, A.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Atmospheric Sciences; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7163/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7163/1/HiGEM_main_paper-submitted.pdf; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7163/2/2008jcli2508%252E1.pdf; http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F2008JCLI2508.1

This article describes the development and evaluation of the U.K.'s new High-Resolution Global Environmental Model (HiGEM), which is based on the latest climate configuration of the Met Office Unified Model, known as the Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model, version 1 (HadGEM1). In HiGEM, t...