Project: PRIMAVERA - Development of a new generation of advanced and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models, capable of simulating and predicting regional climate with unprecedented fidelity, for the benefit of governments, business and society in general. https://www.primavera-h2020.eu/ Summary: The MPI-ESM1.2-ER configuration is designed to facilitate research on ocean eddies that are explicitly resolved. The 1950-control simulation, spans 200 years for ocean and 100 years for the atmosphere, forced by fixed-1950 GHG-forcing. This includes fixed orbital parameters, solar irradiance averaged over a solar cycle, greenhouse gas concentrations, and ozone concentrations. The simulation excludes volcanic aerosol forcing and focuses on tropospheric natural aerosols. The MPI-ESM1.2-ER climate model includes the following components: aerosol: none, prescribed MACv2-SP, atmos: ECHAM6.3 (spectral T127/L95; 384 × 192 longitude/latitude; 95 levels; top level 0.01 hPa), land: none, landIce: none/prescribed, ocean: MPIOM1.63 (TP6M, approximately 0.1deg; 3602x2394 longitude/latitude; 40 levels; top grid cell 0-6 m), ocnBgchem: none, seaIce: unnamed (thermodynamic (Semtner zero-layer) dynamic (Hibler 79) sea ice model). The model was run by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg 20146, Germany (MPI-M) in native nominal resolutions: aerosol: 100 km, atmos: 100 km, land: none, landIce: none, ocean: 10 km, ocnBgchem: none, seaIce: 10 km. MPI-ESM-ER is a coupled climate model that is conducted following the HighResMIP protocol. Atmospheric component (ECHAM6.3) and ocean component (MPIOM) of the MPI-ESM-ER are coupled with a coupling frequency of 1hr (via OASIS3 coupler). MPI-ESM-ER includes dynamic vegetation, and interactive carbon cycle, as well as advanced representations of atmosphere and ocean processes (Stevens et al., 2013).
