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Model description paper
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Model description paper |
| 13 Sep 2021
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EC-Earth3-AerChem: a global climate model with interactive aerosols and atmospheric chemistry participating in CMIP6
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Tommi Bergman
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Philippe Le Sager
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Declan O'Donnell
Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Risto Makkonen
Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
María Gonçalves-Ageitos
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Ralf Döscher
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping,
Sweden
Uwe Fladrich
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping,
Sweden
Jost von Hardenberg
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research
Council, Turin, Italy
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering,
Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Jukka-Pekka Keskinen
Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Faculty of
Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Hannele Korhonen
Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Anton Laakso
Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Finnish Meteorological
Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Stelios Myriokefalitakis
Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development,
National Observatory of Athens, Penteli, Greece
Pirkka Ollinaho
Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Carlos Pérez García-Pando
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies,
Barcelona, Spain
Thomas Reerink
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands
Roland Schrödner
Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund,
Sweden
now at: Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig,
Germany
Klaus Wyser
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping,
Sweden
Shuting Yang
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Short summary
This paper documents the global climate model EC-Earth3-AerChem, one of the members of the EC-Earth3 family of models participating in CMIP6. We give an overview of the model and describe in detail how it differs from its predecessor and the other EC-Earth3 configurations. The model's performance is characterized using coupled simulations conducted for CMIP6. The model has an effective equilibrium climate sensitivity of 3.9 °C and a transient climate response of 2.1 °C.
This paper documents the global climate model EC-Earth3-AerChem, one of the members of the...
