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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1827-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1827-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Methods for assessment of models
| 
12 May 2016
Methods for assessment of models |
| 12 May 2016
Inconsistent strategies to spin up models in CMIP5: implications for ocean biogeochemical model performance assessment
CNRM, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France/CNRS, 42 Avenue Gaspard Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse, France
Marion Gehlen
LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, CEA/Saclay 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Laurent Bopp
LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, CEA/Saclay 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Laure Resplandy
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, CEA/Saclay 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
James C. Orr
LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, CEA/Saclay 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Olivier Marti
LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, CEA/Saclay 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
John P. Dunne
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, NJ, USA
James R. Christian
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Scott C. Doney
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Tatiana Ilyina
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Keith Lindsay
Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Paul R. Halloran
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK
Christoph Heinze
Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Joachim Segschneider
Department of Geosciences, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Jerry Tjiputra
Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Olivier Aumont
Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Univ Paris 06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN-IPSL Laboratory, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Anastasia Romanou
Dept. of Applied Math. and Phys., Columbia University, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Short summary
This paper explores how the large diversity in spin-up protocols used for ocean biogeochemistry in CMIP5 models contributed to inter-model differences in modeled fields. We show that a link between spin-up duration and skill-score metrics emerges from both individual IPSL-CM5A-LR's results and an ensemble of CMIP5 models. Our study suggests that differences in spin-up protocols constitute a source of inter-model uncertainty which would require more attention in future intercomparison exercises.
This paper explores how the large diversity in spin-up protocols used for ocean biogeochemistry...
