Contact:  Veronika Eyring

SPARC (Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate), a core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), has established the international Chemistry-Climate Model Validation Activity (CCMVal). The goal of CCMVal is to improve understanding of coupled chemistry-climate models (CCMs) and their underlying GCMs (General Circulation Models) through process-oriented evaluation, along with discussion and coordinated analysis of science results. One outcome of this effort is expected to be improvements in how well CCMs represent physical, chemical, and dynamical processes. In addition, this effort focuses on understanding the ability of CCMs to reproduce past trends and variability and providing predictions from ensembles of long model runs. Achieving these goals involves comparing CCM constituent distributions with robust relationships between constituent variables as found in observations. Key diagnostics with respect to radiation, dynamics, transport, and stratospheric chemistry and microphysics are defined in the CCMVal Evaluation Table.

References:

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