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Taiwan Earth System Model Version 1: description and evaluation of mean state
Wei-Liang Lee
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Yi-Chi Wang
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Chein-Jung Shiu
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
I-chun Tsai
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Chia-Ying Tu
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Yung-Yao Lan
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Jen-Ping Chen
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Hua-Lu Pan
National Center for Environmental Protection, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA
Huang-Hsiung Hsu
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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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.
The Taiwan Earth System Model (TaiESM) is a new climate model developed in Taiwan. It includes...
