Taiwan Earth System Model Version 1: description and evaluation of mean state

Lee, Wei-Liang; Wang, Yi-Chi; Shiu, Chein-Jung; Tsai, I-chun; Tu, Chia-Ying; Lan, Yung-Yao; Chen, Jen-Ping; Pan, Hua-Lu; Hsu, Huang-Hsiung

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3887-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3887-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3887-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 9

Model description paper

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01 Sep 2020

Model description paper |

| 01 Sep 2020

Taiwan Earth System Model Version 1: description and evaluation of mean state

Wei-Liang Lee, Yi-Chi Wang, Chein-Jung Shiu, I-chun Tsai, Chia-Ying Tu, Yung-Yao Lan, Jen-Ping Chen, Hua-Lu Pan, and Huang-Hsiung Hsu

Model code and software

TaiESM v1.0.0 RCEC-LCCR https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3626654

Short summary

The Taiwan Earth System Model (TaiESM) is a new climate model developed in Taiwan. It includes several new features, and therefore it can better simulate the occurrence of convective rainfall, solar energy received by mountainous surfaces, and more detail chemical processes in aerosols. TaiESM can capture the trend of global warming after 1950 well, and its overall performance in most meteorological quantities is better than the average of global models used in IPCC AR5.