Concept information
Preferred term
CMIP
Definition
- CMIP, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, is the analog of AMIP for global coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. CMIP began in 1995 under the auspices of the Numerical Experimentation Group 2 (NEG-2) of CLIVAR. The PCMDI supports CMIP in much the same way that it supports AMIP: by helping NEG-2 to determine the scope of the project, by maintaining the project's data base, and by participating in data analysis. CMIP has received model output from pre-industrial climate simulations ("control runs") of 18 coupled GCMs. A new phase of CMIP (CMIP2) will examine model responses to anthropogenic climate forcing. The second phase of the project (CMIP2) began in January 1997. This phase will examine model responses to an idealized scenario of anthropogenic climate forcing: a 1% per year increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Diagnosis of the model output will produce the first comprehensive data base on model predictions of future climatic changes. More CMIP information is available on the World Wide Web. Link to: "http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip/" (en)
Broader concept
- A - C (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/8f528b66-670d-4198-b014-7fdc9e1f6890
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