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EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 88, NO. 20, doi:10.1029/2007EO200002, 2007

A Strategy for Climate Change Stabilization Experiments

Kathy A. Hibbard

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colo., USA


Gerald A. Meehl

NCAR, Boulder, Colo., USA


Peter M. Cox

School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K.


Pierre Friedlingstein

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France


Abstract

Climate models used for climate change projections are on the threshold of including much greater biological and chemical detail than previous models. Today, standard climate models (referred to generically as atmosphere-ocean general circulation models, or AOGCMs) include components that simulate the coupled atmosphere, ocean, land, and sea ice. Some modeling centers are now incorporating carbon cycle models into AOGCMs in a move toward an Earth system model (ESM) capability. Additional candidate components to include in ESMs are aerosols, chemistry, ice sheets, and dynamic vegetation.

Published 15 May 2007.

Index Terms: 1622 Global Change: Earth system modeling (1225); 1626 Global Change: Global climate models (3337, 4928); 1630 Global Change: Impacts of global change (1225).

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Citation: Hibbard, K. A., G. A. Meehl, P. M. Cox, and P. Friedlingstein (2007), A Strategy for Climate Change Stabilization Experiments, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(20), doi:10.1029/2007EO200002.