The Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model, Grid-point Version 2:FGOALS-g2

This study mainly introduces the development of the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model: Grid-point Version 2 (FGOALS-g2) and the preliminary evaluations of its performances based on re- sults from the pre-industrial control run and four members of historical runs according to the fif...

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Published inAdvances in atmospheric sciences Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 543 - 560
Main Author 李立娟 林鹏飞 俞永强 王斌 周天军 刘利 刘骥平 包庆 徐世明 黄文誉 夏坤 普业 董理 申思 刘屹岷 胡宁 刘咪咪 孙文奇 史湘军 郑伟鹏 吴波 宋米荣 刘海龙 张学洪 吴国雄 薛巍 黄小猛 杨广文 宋振亚 乔方利
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Published Heidelberg SP Science Press 01.05.2013
Springer Nature B.V
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084%Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029%State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029
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ISSN0256-1530
1861-9533
DOI10.1007/s00376-012-2140-6

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Summary:This study mainly introduces the development of the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model: Grid-point Version 2 (FGOALS-g2) and the preliminary evaluations of its performances based on re- sults from the pre-industrial control run and four members of historical runs according to the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) experiment design. The results suggest that many obvi- ous improvements have been achieved by the FGOALS-g2 compared with the previous version, FGOALS-gl, including its climatological mean states, climate variability, and 20th century surface temperature evolution. For example, FGOALS-g2 better simulates the frequency of tropical land precipitation, East Asian Monsoon precipitation and its seasonal cycle, MJO and ENSO, which are closely related to the updated cumulus parameterization scheme, as well as the alleviation of uncertainties in some key parameters in shallow and deep convection schemes, cloud fraction, cloud macro/microphysical processes and the boundary layer scheme in its atmospheric model. The annual cycle of sea surface temperature along the equator in the Pacific is significantly improved in the new version. The sea ice salinity simulation is one of the unique characteristics of FGOALS-g2, although it is somehow inconsistent with empirical observations in the Antarctic.
Bibliography:LI Lijuan, LIN Pengfei, YU Yongqiang, WANG Bin, ZHOU Tianjun, LIU Li, LIU Jiping, BAO Qing, XU Shiming, HUANG Wenyu, XIA Kun, PU Ye, DONG LiI , SHENSi, LIU Yimin, HU Ning, LIU Mimi, SUN Wenqi, SHI Xiangjun, ZHENG Weipeng , WU Bo, SONG Mirong, LIU Hailong, ZHANG Xuehong, WU Guoxiong, XUE Wei, HUANG Xiaomeng, YANG Guangwen, SONG Zhenya, and QIAO Fangli
This study mainly introduces the development of the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model: Grid-point Version 2 (FGOALS-g2) and the preliminary evaluations of its performances based on re- sults from the pre-industrial control run and four members of historical runs according to the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) experiment design. The results suggest that many obvi- ous improvements have been achieved by the FGOALS-g2 compared with the previous version, FGOALS-gl, including its climatological mean states, climate variability, and 20th century surface temperature evolution. For example, FGOALS-g2 better simulates the frequency of tropical land precipitation, East Asian Monsoon precipitation and its seasonal cycle, MJO and ENSO, which are closely related to the updated cumulus parameterization scheme, as well as the alleviation of uncertainties in some key parameters in shallow and deep convection schemes, cloud fraction, cloud macro/microphysical processes and the boundary layer scheme in its atmospheric model. The annual cycle of sea surface temperature along the equator in the Pacific is significantly improved in the new version. The sea ice salinity simulation is one of the unique characteristics of FGOALS-g2, although it is somehow inconsistent with empirical observations in the Antarctic.
FGOALS-g2, climatological mean state, climate variability, 20th century climate, monsoon
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ISSN:0256-1530
1861-9533
DOI:10.1007/s00376-012-2140-6