Development and validation of the ARPEGE/OASIS/NEMO coupled model for the CMIP5 decadal prediction exercise

Sciences de l'Univers au CERFACS (SUC) URA1875 CERFACS/CNRS
42 avenue Gaspard Coriolis
31057 Toulouse cedex 01
France
Christophe Cassou, cassou@cerfacs.fr
Laure Coquart, coquart@cerfacs.fr
Lola Corre, corre@cerfacs.fr
Eric Maisonnave, maisonna@cerfacs.fr
Christian Pagé, page@cerfacs.fr
Philippe Rogel, rogel@cerfacs.fr
Didier Swingedouw, swingedo@cerfacs.fr
Laurent Terray, terray@cerfacs.fr
Sophie Valcke, valcke@cerfacs.fr
Anthony Weaver, weaver@cerfacs.fr
NEC SX9 (Météo-France),
Blue Gene (CERFACS, IDRIS)
SGI (CINES)
2013 delivery of the IPCC AR5 report
The version of the various components is as follows: Arpege 5, OASIS 3, ORCA 1. The resolution of ARPEGE will be truncation T159 while that of ORCA will be 1 deg. The seaice model will likely be GELATO developped by David Salas at CNRM
The main objective of this project is to develop, test and implement a new version of the ARPEGE/OASIS/ORCA coupled model on various computing platforms. This version is to be used to perform the simulations which are required within the the decadal prediction exercise included in the WGCM CMIP5 set of experiments.
decadal prediction, IPCC, AR5, ocean initialisation, coupled model