The carbon cycle in the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-ESM1) – Part 2: Historical simulations

Ziehn, Tilo; Lenton, Andrew; Law, Rachel M.; Matear, Richard J.; Chamberlain, Matthew A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2591-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2591-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2591-2017

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Model evaluation paper

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06 Jul 2017

Model evaluation paper |

| 06 Jul 2017

The carbon cycle in the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-ESM1) – Part 2: Historical simulations

Tilo Ziehn, Andrew Lenton, Rachel M. Law, Richard J. Matear, and Matthew A. Chamberlain

Model code and software

CABLE2 NCI https://trac.nci.org.au/svn/cable/

MOM4p1 US Department of Commerce http://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/~arl/pubrel/r/mom4p1/src/mom4p1/doc/mom4_manual.html

CICE Los Alamos http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CICE

OASIS3-MCT 2.0 CNRS http://oasis.enes.org

Short summary

Our work presents the evaluation of the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-ESM1) over the historical period (1850–2005). The main focus is on climate and carbon related variables. Globally integrated land–atmosphere and ocean–atmosphere fluxes and flux patterns are well reproduced and show good agreement with most recent observations. This makes ACCESS-ESM1 a useful tool to explore the change in land and oceanic carbon uptake in the future.