Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-461-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-461-2025
Model description paper
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27 Jan 2025
Model description paper |  | 27 Jan 2025

The very-high-resolution configuration of the EC-Earth global model for HighResMIP

Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Thomas Arsouze, Mario Acosta, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Miguel Castrillo, Eric Ferrer, Amanda Frigola, Daria Kuznetsova, Eneko Martin-Martinez, Pablo Ortega, and Sergi Palomas

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We present the high-resolution model version of the EC-Earth global climate model to contribute to HighResMIP. The combined model resolution is about 10–15 km in both the ocean and atmosphere, which makes it one of the finest ever used to complete historical and scenario simulations. This model is compared with two lower-resolution versions, with a 100 km and a 25 km grid. The three models are compared with observations to study the improvements thanks to the increased resolution.
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