The EC-Earth3 Earth system model for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6

Döscher, Ralf; Acosta, Mario; Alessandri, Andrea; Anthoni, Peter; Arsouze, Thomas; Bergman, Tommi; Bernardello, Raffaele; Boussetta, Souhail; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Carver, Glenn; Castrillo, Miguel; Catalano, Franco; Cvijanovic, Ivana; Davini, Paolo; Dekker, Evelien; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J.; Docquier, David; Echevarria, Pablo; Fladrich, Uwe; Fuentes-Franco, Ramon; Gröger, Matthias; v. Hardenberg, Jost; Hieronymus, Jenny; Karami, M. Pasha; Keskinen, Jukka-Pekka; Koenigk, Torben; Makkonen, Risto; Massonnet, François; Ménégoz, Martin; Miller, Paul A.; Moreno-Chamarro, Eduardo; Nieradzik, Lars; van Noije, Twan; Nolan, Paul; O'Donnell, Declan; Ollinaho, Pirkka; van den Oord, Gijs; Ortega, Pablo; Prims, Oriol Tintó; Ramos, Arthur; Reerink, Thomas; Rousset, Clement; Ruprich-Robert, Yohan; Le Sager, Philippe; Schmith, Torben; Schrödner, Roland; Serva, Federico; Sicardi, Valentina; Sloth Madsen, Marianne; Smith, Benjamin; Tian, Tian; Tourigny, Etienne; Uotila, Petteri; Vancoppenolle, Martin; Wang, Shiyu; Wårlind, David; Willén, Ulrika; Wyser, Klaus; Yang, Shuting; Yepes-Arbós, Xavier; Zhang, Qiong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2973-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2973-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2973-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 7

Model description paper

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08 Apr 2022

Model description paper |

| 08 Apr 2022

The EC-Earth3 Earth system model for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6

Ralf Döscher, Mario Acosta, Andrea Alessandri, Peter Anthoni, Thomas Arsouze, Tommi Bergman, Raffaele Bernardello, Souhail Boussetta, Louis-Philippe Caron, Glenn Carver, Miguel Castrillo, Franco Catalano, Ivana Cvijanovic, Paolo Davini, Evelien Dekker, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, David Docquier, Pablo Echevarria, Uwe Fladrich, Ramon Fuentes-Franco, Matthias Gröger, Jost v. Hardenberg, Jenny Hieronymus, M. Pasha Karami, Jukka-Pekka Keskinen, Torben Koenigk, Risto Makkonen, François Massonnet, Martin Ménégoz, Paul A. Miller, Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Lars Nieradzik, Twan van Noije, Paul Nolan, Declan O'Donnell, Pirkka Ollinaho, Gijs van den Oord, Pablo Ortega, Oriol Tintó Prims, Arthur Ramos, Thomas Reerink, Clement Rousset, Yohan Ruprich-Robert, Philippe Le Sager, Torben Schmith, Roland Schrödner, Federico Serva, Valentina Sicardi, Marianne Sloth Madsen, Benjamin Smith, Tian Tian, Etienne Tourigny, Petteri Uotila, Martin Vancoppenolle, Shiyu Wang, David Wårlind, Ulrika Willén, Klaus Wyser, Shuting Yang, Xavier Yepes-Arbós, and Qiong Zhang

Data sets

EC-Earth-Consortium EC- Earth3-Veg model output prepared for CMIP6 ScenarioMIP ssp119 EC-Earth Consortium (EC-Earth) https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.4872

Short summary

The Earth system model EC-Earth3 is documented here. Key performance metrics show physical behavior and biases well within the frame known from recent models. With improved physical and dynamic features, new ESM components, community tools, and largely improved physical performance compared to the CMIP5 version, EC-Earth3 represents a clear step forward for the only European community ESM. We demonstrate here that EC-Earth3 is suited for a range of tasks in CMIP6 and beyond.