OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic
protocol for the physical component of the   Ocean Model
 Intercomparison Project

S. M. Griffies; G. Danabasoglu; P. J. Durack; A. J. Adcroft; V. Balaji; C. W. Böning; E. P. Chassignet; E. Curchitser; J. Deshayes; H. Drange; B. Fox-Kemper; P. J. Gleckler; J. M. Gregory; H. Haak; R. W. Hallberg; P. Heimbach; H. T. Hewitt; D. M. Holland; T. Ilyina; J. H. Jungclaus; Y. Komuro; J. P. Krasting; W. G. Large; S. J. Marsland; S. Masina; T. J. McDougall; A. J. G. Nurser; J. C. Orr; A. Pirani; F. Qiao; R. J. Stouffer; K. E. Taylor; A. M. Treguier; H. Tsujino; P. Uotila; M. Valdivieso; Q. Wang; M. Winton; S. G. Yeager

doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3231-2016

Geoscientific Model Development (Sep 2016)

OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

S. M. Griffies,
G. Danabasoglu,
P. J. Durack,
A. J. Adcroft,
V. Balaji,
C. W. Böning,
E. P. Chassignet,
E. Curchitser,
J. Deshayes,
H. Drange,
B. Fox-Kemper,
P. J. Gleckler,
J. M. Gregory,
H. Haak,
R. W. Hallberg,
P. Heimbach,
H. T. Hewitt,
D. M. Holland,
T. Ilyina,
J. H. Jungclaus,
Y. Komuro,
J. P. Krasting,
W. G. Large,
S. J. Marsland,
S. Masina,
T. J. McDougall,
A. J. G. Nurser,
J. C. Orr,
A. Pirani,
F. Qiao,
R. J. Stouffer,
K. E. Taylor,
A. M. Treguier,
H. Tsujino,
P. Uotila,
M. Valdivieso,
Q. Wang,
M. Winton,
S. G. Yeager

Affiliations

S. M. Griffies: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
G. Danabasoglu: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
P. J. Durack: Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
A. J. Adcroft: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
V. Balaji: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
C. W. Böning: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
E. P. Chassignet: Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
E. Curchitser: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
J. Deshayes: Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Univ Paris 06-CNRS-IRD-MNHN), LOCEAN Laboratory, Paris, France
H. Drange: Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway
B. Fox-Kemper: Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Brown University, USA
P. J. Gleckler: Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
J. M. Gregory: Met Office Hadley Centre and University of Reading, UK
H. Haak: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
R. W. Hallberg: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
P. Heimbach: Institute for Computational Engineering and Science and Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
H. T. Hewitt: Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
D. M. Holland: New York University, New York, USA
T. Ilyina: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
J. H. Jungclaus: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Y. Komuro: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
J. P. Krasting: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
W. G. Large: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
S. J. Marsland: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
S. Masina: Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy
T. J. McDougall: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A. J. G. Nurser: National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS), Southampton, UK
J. C. Orr: IPSL/LSCE, UMR8212, CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
A. Pirani: Université Paris Saclay, France, and Abdus Salam Institute for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
F. Qiao: First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China
R. J. Stouffer: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
K. E. Taylor: Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
A. M. Treguier: Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale, Ifremer, Plouzane, France
H. Tsujino: Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
P. Uotila: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
M. Valdivieso: University of Reading, Reading, UK
Q. Wang: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
M. Winton: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
S. G. Yeager: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3231-2016
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 9
pp. 3231 – 3296

Abstract

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The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) is an endorsed project in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses CMIP6 science questions, investigating the origins and consequences of systematic model biases. It does so by providing a framework for evaluating (including assessment of systematic biases), understanding, and improving ocean, sea-ice, tracer, and biogeochemical components of climate and earth system models contributing to CMIP6. Among the WCRP Grand Challenges in climate science (GCs), OMIP primarily contributes to the regional sea level change and near-term (climate/decadal) prediction GCs.OMIP provides (a) an experimental protocol for global ocean/sea-ice models run with a prescribed atmospheric forcing; and (b) a protocol for ocean diagnostics to be saved as part of CMIP6. We focus here on the physical component of OMIP, with a companion paper (Orr et al., 2016) detailing methods for the inert chemistry and interactive biogeochemistry. The physical portion of the OMIP experimental protocol follows the interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II). Since 2009, CORE-I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE-II (Interannual Forcing) have become the standard methods to evaluate global ocean/sea-ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability. The OMIP diagnostic protocol is relevant for any ocean model component of CMIP6, including the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima experiments), historical simulations, FAFMIP (Flux Anomaly Forced MIP), C4MIP (Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate MIP), DAMIP (Detection and Attribution MIP), DCPP (Decadal Climate Prediction Project), ScenarioMIP, HighResMIP (High Resolution MIP), as well as the ocean/sea-ice OMIP simulations.

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