Climate Variability and Predictability
(CLIVAR)
CLIVAR, is an international research programme addressing many issues of
natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. As part of
the wider World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) CLIVAR is giving insights
into the working of the climate system and hence answers to important
questions. WCRP works in partnership with the International Geosphere
Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and International Human Dimensions Programme
(IHDP).
UGAMP, funded by The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is
helping to strengthen the role of the UK universities in the area of
numerical modelling of the large scale atmosphere.
CCSR/NIES AGCM
Global Climate Model of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics in the
Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies in collaboration with
Center for Climate System Research , University of Tokyo.
NCAR Community Climate Model
(CCM3)
The NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3) is a stable, efficient,
documented, state of the art atmospheric general circulation model designed
for climate research on high-speed supercomputers and select upper-end
workstations. CCM3 is a free resource for scientists and graduate students
in a wide array of specialties to use in conducting global modeling
experiments in their particular area of expertise without spending decades
of their careers developing a complete global climate model of this
complexity.
Community Climate System Model
(CCSM)
The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) is a fully-coupled, global
climate model that provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the
Earth's past, present, and future climate states.
Distributed Climate System
Laboratory
An NSF project to combine the capabilities of the GCRP and HPCC to develop
and distributed climate system model (DSCM).
PCMDI
The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) was
established in 1989 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in
Livermore, California. PCMDI's principal mission is to develop improved
methods and tools for the diagnosis, validation and intercomparison of
global climate models.
Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
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 Working Group on Coupled Models
(WGCM) of CLIVAR.
Arctic
Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees,
glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic
environmental variability over the last 400 years.