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Review and perspective paper
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01 Sep 2017
Review and perspective paper |
| 01 Sep 2017
Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers
Gavin A. Schmidt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, USA
David Bader
DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Leo J. Donner
GFDL/NOAA, Princeton University Forrestal Campus, 201 Forrestal Rd., Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Gregory S. Elsaesser
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, USA
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Jean-Christophe Golaz
DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
Cecile Hannay
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, USA
Andrea Molod
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Richard B. Neale
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, USA
Suranjana Saha
Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA, NCWCP College Park, Maryland, USA
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Short summary
The development of coupled ocean atmosphere climate models is a complex process that inevitably includes multiple calibration steps (sometimes called
tuning). Tuning uses degrees of freedom allowed by uncertainties in model approximations to modify parameters to make the simulation better align with some selected observed target(s). We describe how these tuning targets, parameters, and philosophy vary across six US modeling centers in order to increase the transparency of the practice.
The development of coupled ocean atmosphere climate models is a complex process that inevitably...
