Traceable Modelling - Kakushin B1
Kakushin
Kakushin is a large project funding most of the modelling-based climate science in Japan from April 2007-March 2012. A small sliver of the project is devoted to uncertainty on the climatological timescale. As the project progresses more details on this “sub-group” will be added here.
Traceable Modelling
The MIROC3.2 model runs in a variety of configurations and resolutions, which allows us to “dress” a state of the art best estimate with an ensemble of simplified but related model integrations. The standard model is T42 with a 3D ocean, but a T106 version is also available and a T21+slab ocean model provides a comparable equilibrium climate on continental scales at much lower computational cost. MIROC-LITE is a low-resolution MIROC ocean component which has been coupled to an energy-balance atmosphere, ice sheet and carbon cycle. The model will also be tested with the T21 AGCM.