U.K. HiGEM: The New U.K. High-Resolution Global Environment Model—Model Description and Basic Evaluation

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Shaffrey, LC, Stevens, I, Norton, WA, Roberts, MJ, Vidale, PL, Harle, JD, Jrrar, A, Stevens, DP, Woodage, MJ, Demory, ME, Donners, J, Clark, DB, Clayton, A, Cole, JW, Wilson, SS, Connolley, WM, Davies, TM, Iwi, AM, Johns, TC, King, JC, New, AL, Slingo, JM, Slingo, A, Steenman-Clark, L, Martin, GM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Pacific; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15936/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15936/1/DS_48.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2508.1

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, the ho...