Concept information
Preferred term
MECCA
Definition
- The Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Change Assessment (MECCA) Enhanced Greenhouse Atlas is an industry-funded project designed to assess the reliability of Global Circulation Models (GCMs), to quantify the probable range of future climatic change and to convey the resulting information to policymakers and other interested organizations and individuals. The Enhance Greenhouse Atlas visualizes the results from six MECCA experiments employing a variety of greenhouse gas scenarios. The six models are: GENESIS: Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems BMRC CCM0: NCAR's Community Climate Model (Washington and Meehl) CCM1-OZ: Modified version of CCM1 CCM1W: Wang, et al (1992) version of CCM1 CCM1: Oglesby and Saltzman (1992) version of CCM1 The model results illustrate the effects of enhanced carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations on surface temperature and precipitation. The atlas is divided into two sections representing surface temperature and p! recipitation. These are further divided into five subsections each consisting of displays for the four canonical months: January, April, July and October. The five subsections are: agreement maps; mean; standard deviation control run; mean differences; and signal-to-noise. The atlas is available on the World-Wide Web at: "http://www.epri.com/ME2CA/MECCA.html" The atlas WWW pages were created by Jessica Weinstein. The Grid Analysis Display System (GrADS), developed by Brian E. Doty, was used to generate the graphics. Contributors and authors include: A. Henderson-Sellers, A.-M. Hansen, J. Arblaster, J. Hoekstra, K. McGuffie, C. Brescianini, C. Gross, P. Love, M. Perkins, and the MECCA Analysis Team, Professor R. Oglesby (Purdue University) and Professor W-C. Wang (SUNY Albany) Data Center: Data_Center_Name Electric Power Research Institute(EPRI) URL "http://www.epri.com/ME2CA/MECCA.html" Contact Person: CHUCK HAKKARINEN Position Data Center Contact Address Electric Power Research Institute 3412 Hillview Avenue, P.O. Box 10412 Palo Alto, California 94303 USA Phone 415 855 2592 Fax 415 855 1069 Email chakk@mecca.epri.com ANN HENDERSON-SELLERS Position Investigator Address Macquarie University School of Earth Sciences North Ryde, New South Wales 2109 Australia Phone +61-2-850-8398 Fax +61-2-850-9671 Email ann@mqclimat.mqcc.mq.oz.au (en)
Broader concept
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URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/6bb51d32-d3bc-4379-a96b-dba4145c3272
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