OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

By S. Griffies, Gokhan Danabasoglu, P. Durack, Alistair Adcroft, V. Balaji, C. Böning, Eric P. Chassignet, Enrique Curchitser, J. Deshayes, H. Drange and 29 more. 2016

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The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) is an endorsed project in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses CMIP6 science questions, investigating the origins and consequences of systematic model biases. It does so by providing a framework for evaluating (including assessment of systematic biases), understanding, and improving ocean, sea-ice, tracer, and biogeochemical components of climate and earth system models contributing to CMIP6. Among the WCRP Grand Challenges in climate science (GCs), OMIP primarily contributes to the regional sea level change and near-term (climate/decadal) prediction GCs. OMIP provides (a) an experimental protocol for global ocean/sea-ice models run with a prescribed atmospheric forcing; and (b) a protocol for ocean diagnostics to be saved as part of CMIP6. We focus here on the physical component of OMIP, with a companion paper (Orr et al., 2016) detailing methods for the inert chemistry and interactive biogeochemistry. The physical portion of the OMIP experimental protocol follows the interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II). Since 2009, CORE-I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE-II (Interannual Forcing) have become the standard methods to evaluate global ocean/sea-ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability. The OMIP diagnostic protocol is relevant for any ocean model component of CMIP6, including the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima experiments), historical simulations, FAFMIP (Flux Anomaly Forced MIP), C4MIP (Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate MIP), DAMIP (Detection and Attribution MIP), DCPP (Decadal Climate Prediction Project), ScenarioMIP, HighResMIP (High Resolution MIP), as well as the ocean/sea-ice OMIP simulations.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Simulations for CMIP6 With the AWI Climate Model AWI‐CM‐1‐1 (2020, methodology): “Furthermore, data publications of AWI‐CM simulations are planned for OMIP (Griffies et al., 2016) and PMIP (Kageyama et al., 2018).”
Evaluation of CNRM Earth System Model, CNRM‐ESM2‐1: Role of Earth System Processes in Present‐Day and Future Climate (2019, methodology): “Observed estimates are based on the most up‐to‐date measurements as detailed in Griffies et al. (2016), except for the Drake Passage estimate which has recently been updated by Donohue et al. (2016).”
Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR Climate Model (2020, background): “…is apparent in Figure 9: the stream function Table 2 Mass Transports (in Sv) Through a Selection of Key Transects of the Global Ocean as Defined in Griffies et al. (2016) Transect IPSL‐ CM5A‐LR IPSL‐ CM5A‐ MR IPSL‐ CM6A‐LR Observations Barents opening −0.89 −0.059 4.06 2.0 Bering Strait 1.09…”
Developments in the MPI‐M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI‐ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2 (2019, background): “Updates of existing parameterized processes follow recommendations of the C4MIP and OMIP protocols (Jones et al., 2016; Orr et al., 2017).”
The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model Description and Simulation Features (2019, methodology): “The CORE protocol is specified to be used in Phase I of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project version 6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6/OMIP; Griffies et al., 2016).”
Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models (2019, methodology): “Consequently, it is being used for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) (Griffies et al., 2016; Orr et al., 2017).”