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1 ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH 4(1): 41 49, DOI: /SP.J CHANGES IN CLIMATE SYSTEM Introduction of CMIP5 Experiments Carried out with the Climate System Models of Beijing Climate Center XIN Xiao-Ge, WU Tong-Wen, ZHANG Jie Beijing Climate Center/National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing , China Abstract The climate system models from Beijing Climate Center, BCC CSM1.1 and BCC CSM1.1-M, are used to carry out most of the CMIP5 experiments. This study gives a general introduction of these two models, and provides main information on the experiments including the experiment purpose, design, and the external forcings. The transient climate responses to the CO 2 concentration increase at 1% per year are presented in the simulation of the two models. The BCC CSM1.1-M result is closer to the CMIP5 multiple models ensemble. The two models perform well in simulating the historical evolution of the surface air temperature, globally and averaged for China. Both models overestimate the global warming and underestimate the warming over China in the 20th century. With higher horizontal resolution, the BCC CSM1.1-M has a better capability in reproducing the annual evolution of surface air temperature over China. Keywords: CMIP5; climate system model; experiment; BCC CSM Citation: Xin, X.-G., T.-W. Wu, and J. Zhang, 2013: Introduction of CMIP5 experiments carried out with the climate system models of Beijing Climate Center. Adv. Clim. Change Res., 4(1), doi: /SP.J Introduction and objective A climate system model is an important tool to study the mechanisms for past climate change and to project future climate change. The Couple Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) organized by Working Group on Couple Modeling (WGCM) serves as an important platform for the evaluation of climate models and the promotion of further development of climate models. Experimental data of the models participating in CMIP has been widely used in climate research. After four phases of CMIP, the fifth phase (CMIP5) started in September, A new set of climate model experiments is prescribed aiming to address outstanding questions that arose in the IPCC AR4 assessment. As in previous phases of CMIP, results from this new set of simulations will provide valuable scientific information for IPCC AR5 (scheduled to be published in 2014). The CMIP5 simulations have being an important mission of climate modeling groups worldwide since the release of the CMIP5 experimental design [Taylor et al., 2011]. Great efforts have been made by Beijing Climate Center (BCC) in preparing the forcing data, adding the required output variables, performing the experiments and standardizing the output data. The model outputs are available on the PCMDI website ( In comparison with CMIP3, some new experiments were added in the CMIP5, including decadal predictions (hindcasts and projections), coupled carbon/climate model simulations, and several diagnostic Received: 8 November 2012 Corresponding author: XIN Xiao-Ge, xinxg@cma.gov.cn 1

2 42 ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH experiments for understanding the long-term simulations. The number of the experiments in CMIP5 is much larger than in CMIP3. Some of the experiments are inter-connected with each other. The aim of this study is to introduce the experiments and provide main information on the simulations carried out at the BCC. We believe the introduction will provide useful information for researchers on how CMIP5 experiments are performed at the BCC and promote the wide application of the experimental dataset. 2 Models and forcing data There are two versions of climate system models of BCC, BCC CSM1.1 and BCC CSM1.1-M participating in CMIP5. Both models are fully coupled global climate-carbon models including interactive vegetation and the global carbon cycle. The only difference between the two models is the atmospheric module. The atmospheric module in BCC CSM1.1 is BCC AGCM2.1, while it is BCC AGCM2.2 in BCC CSM1.1-M, with a horizontal resolution of about 2.8 (T42) and about 1 (T106), respectively. There are 26 levels in vertical direction in both AGCMs with the same dynamical and physical processes. The description and performance of BCC AGCM2.1 can be found in Wu et al. [2008; 2010] and Wu [2012]. BCC CSM1.1 and BCC CSM1.1-M use the same ocean component (MOM4 L40), land component (BCC AVIM1.0), and sea ice component (Sea ICE Simulator, SIS). BCC AVIM1.0 includes biogeophysical, ecophysiological and soil carbon-nitrogen dynamical modules [Ji et al., 2008]. The ocean model and sea ice model are both from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). The horizontal resolution in the ocean model is 1 longitude by 0.33 latitude with tripolar grid [Griffies et al., 2005]. There are 40 levels in the vertical direction in the ocean component. The biogeochemistry module to simulate the ocean carbon cycle in MOM4 L40 is based on the protocols from the Ocean Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project-Phase 2 (OCMIP2, SIS has the same horizontal resolution as MOM4 L40, with three layers in the vertical direction, one snow cover layer and two equally sized sea ice layers [Winton, 2000]. The external forcing in the experiments is comprised of greenhouse gases (GHGs), ozone, aerosols, volcanic cruptions, carbon emissions, and solar variability. The GHGs include CO 2, N 2 O, CH 4, CFC 11 and CFC 12. The aerosol properties consist of sulfate aerosols, sea salt, black carbon, organic carbon, and soil dust. The temporal resolution of the sulfate aerosols dataset is 10 years. Only direct effects of aerosols are considered in the models. The time interval is one year for GHGs, the solar constant and carbon emissions. These forcing data except the volcanic aerosols are all provided by CMIP5. The volcanic dataset is from Ammann et al. [2003]. This dataset uses the aerosol optical depths to describe the volcanic activity, which was used by the NCAR CCSM3 and CCSM4 in the historical simulation of CMIP [Meehl et al., 2006; 2012]. The ozone data and volcanic aerosols data are both in monthly intervals. 3 CMIP5 experiments The CMIP5 experiments carried out with the BCC models are classified into three categories: longterm climate simulations, climate simulations with coupled carbon/climate models, and decadal prediction experiments. The atmosphere-only experiments are not introduced here, though most of the experiments were carried out. 3.1 Long-term climate simulations The long-term climate simulations include preindustrial experiments, historical simulation, future climate projections, climate attribution experiments, paleoclimate experiments and idealized CO 2 experiments. Main information of each experiment is shown in Table 1. The short name in the table is the standard abbreviation within the CMIP5 experiments 1. The model version T42 denotes the BCC CSM1.1 and T106 denotes the BCC CSM1.1-M. 1 data reference syntax.pdf

3 XIN Xiao-Ge et al. / Introduction of CMIP5 Experiments Carried out with the Climate System Models Table 1 Long-term climate simulations in CMIP5 Short name Experiment name Model version Ensemble Time period Forcing fields size picontrol Pre-industrial control T42,T years N/A historical Historical T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,Vl,SS,Ds,BC,OC rcp85 RCP8.5 T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,SS,Ds,BC,OC rcp45 RCP4.5 T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,SS,Ds,BC,OC rcp26 RCP2.6 T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,SS,Ds,BC,OC rcp60 RCP6 T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,SS,Ds,BC,OC historicalghg GHG-only T GHG historicalnat Natural-only T Sl,Vl midholocene Mid-Holocene T years N/A past1000 Last millennium T GHG,Vl,Sl 1pctCO2 CO 2 increase by 1% per year T42,T years CO 2 abrupt4xco2 Abrupt 4xCO 2 T42,T years CO 2 Forcing abbreviation: N/A, all forcing fixed; SD, direct effect of sulfate aerosol; SS, sea salt; BC, black carbon; OC, organic carbon; Ds, dust; Oz, ozone; Sl, solar irradiance; Vl, volcanic aerosol In the pre-industrial (picontrol) experiment, the GHGs, aerosols, ozone and solar irradiance are fixed at the year An output of 500 years is supplied after 100 years spin-up. This simulation serves as the baseline and provides initial conditions for the historical simulation, the paleoclimate experiments, and the idealized CO 2 experiments. Results of this experiment are used to estimate unforced variability of the model and to diagnose the climate drift in an unforced system. The historical simulation is equivalent to the 20th century simulation (20C3M) of the CMIP3. The experiment starts from the picontrol run and integrates data from 1850 to 2012 with the external forcing changing with time. The external forcing includes GHGs, the solar constant, volcanic activity, ozone and aerosols. The forcing data for is taken from observations. The forcing for is based on the assumptions in the RCP8.5. The historical simulation has three ensemble members initialized from different points of the picontrol run. The findings show that BCC CSM1.1 has a better ability in reproducing the historical global temperature change in the 20th century than the earlier version BCC CSM1.0 [Xin et al., 2013]. The Representative Concentration Pathway projections include RCP8.5, RCP6.0, RCP4.5 and RCP2.6. The number following RCP represents the assumed radiative forcing of 8.5, 6.0, 4.5 and 2.6 W m 2 by 2100, respectively. The detailed description of the RCPs can be found in van Vuuren et al. [2011a]. No volcanic forcing is included in the RCP simulations. The GHGs, solar constant, ozone and aerosols are all changing with time. The solar constant contains a stable cycle of 11 years. All RCPs except RCP6.0 have a 200 years extended simulation beyond 2100 ( ). In the extended simulation, only GHGs and solar constant change with time. The ozone and aerosols are both fixed at the value of the year 2100 in the respective scenarios. Among the RCPs, RCP2.6 is the lowest scenario necessary to keep the increase of the global mean temperature below 2 C of the pre-industrial conditions [Meinshausen et al., 2011; van Vuuren et al., 2011b]. Evaluations show that the maximum warming in RCP2.6 simulated by BCC CSM1.1 is 2.0 C and 2.12 C by BCC CSM1.1- M relative to the pre-industrial conditions [Xin et al., 2012]. The higher warming in BCC CSM1.1-M is consistent with its larger transient climate response to GHGs as shown in section 4.1. The climate attribution experiments include historicalghg and historicalnat. The varying forcing of historicalghg only includes GHGs. The historicalnat only considers the forcing of natural factors including solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols. The simulation time is the same as in the historical experiment ( ). The GHGs for adopt the forcing data from the RCP8.5. The two experiments are mainly used to determine whether the model response to GHGs and natural factors can be identified in the

4 44 ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH historical period. The paleoclimate experiments done by BCC include midholocene and past1000. The experiments are also included in the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase III (PMIP3). The mid- Holocene simulation is initiated from the picontrol with the orbit parameter and GHGs fixed at the values during the mid-holocene. The other forcings used are the same as in the picontrol run. A one hundred years output is provided. In the past1000 simulation, the forcings changing with time include the solar constant, volcanic aerosols, GHGs and orbit parameter. Other forcings, such us ozone and anthropogenic aerosols, are the same values as in the picontrol experiment. The details of the forcing data can be found in Schmidt et al. [2011]. The simulation starts from the spin-up results with the forcing fixed at the year 850 and stops in The idealized CO 2 experiments include 1pctCO2 and abrupt4xco2. In the two experiments, only CO 2 changes with time, while other forcings are fixed to the same values as in the picontrol run. In 1pctCO2, an 140 years simulation was carried out with a 1% per year increase in CO 2 concentration. In abrupt4xco2, the CO 2 concentration is set to 4 times of the preindustrial level at the first year with a spin-up for 150 years. Both 1pctCO2 and abrupt4xco2 are initiated from the same point in the picontrol run. The 1pctCO2 experiment is used to measure transient climate responses. The abrupt4xco2 experiment is used to evaluate the equilibrium climate sensitivity of the model. The latter experiment can also be used to diagnose the fast response of the radiation process when the CO 2 concentration changes. The BCC CSM1.1 carried out all experiments of the long-term climate simulations mentioned above. The BCC CSM1.1-M carried out all experiments except for the paleoclimate experiments and the climate attribution experiments (historicalghg and historical- Nat). 3.2 Carbon-cycle climate experiments The difference between the carbon-cycle climate experiments and the long-term climate experiments is that the former use carbon emissions instead of CO 2 concentration as the external forcing. In the carbon-cycle climate experiments, the CO 2 concentration is simulated by the carbon-cycle process in the model. For the model itself, reproducing the evolution of global CO 2 concentration is one of the main indicators to estimate whether the simulated carbon cycle is reasonable. The climate simulations with a carbon cycle include the pre-industrial experiment (esm- Control), the historical experiment (esmhistorical), the RCP8.5 projection (esmrcp85) and sensitivity experiments diagnosing the carbon-climate feedbacks (Table 2). Table 2 Simulations with fully coupled carbon/climate models in CMIP5 Short name Experiment name Model version Ensemble Time period Forcing fields size esmcontrol ESM pre-industrial control T42,T years N/A esmhistorical ESM historical T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,Vl,SS,Ds,BC,OC esmrcp85 ESM RCP8.5 T42,T GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,SS,Ds,BC,OC esmfixclim1 ESM fixed climate 1 T years CO 2 esmfixclim2 ESM fixed climate 2 T CO 2 esmfdbk1 ESM feedback 1 T years CO 2 esmfdbk2 ESM feedback 2 T CO 2 The pre-industrial experiment (esmcontrol) is similar to picontrol except that the CO 2 concentration is not prescribed but simulated by the model. There is no external source of carbon emissions in the esm- Control run. An output of 250 years is provided after the spin-up of 100 years. In the historical simulation with a carbon cycle (esmhistorical), the historical carbon emissions are used as the external forcing. Other forcings are the same as in the historical experiment. The integration

5 XIN Xiao-Ge et al. / Introduction of CMIP5 Experiments Carried out with the Climate System Models time is from 1850 to The forcing data beyond 2005 comes from the RCP8.5 dataset. The future projection experiment with a carbon cycle is abbreviated esmrcp85. The carbon emissions of the RCP8.5 dataset are used in this experiment. Other forcings are the same as in the RCP8.5 experiment. A simulation from 2006 to 2099 is carried out. This experiment can provide estimates of future climate change with carbon climate feedbacks impacting atmospheric CO 2 and climate conditions. The climate-carbon feedback diagnostic experiments include esmfixclim and esmfdbk, which are designed to estimate the strength of the carbonclimate feedback. In esmfixclim, the CO 2 concentration in the radiative process is fixed as in the pi- Control run, but the CO 2 in the carbon cycle changes with time. The change in CO 2 can be the same as in 1pctCO2 (esmfixclim1) or as in the historical simulation from 1850 to 2005 and RCP4.5 from 2006 to 2100 (esmfixclim2). In esmfdbk, the CO 2 concentration in the carbon cycle is fixed, but the CO 2 concentration in the radiative module varies with time. The CO 2 forcing can be the same as in 1pctCO2 (esmfdbk1) or as in the historical simulation and RCP4.5 (esmfdbk2). The integration time is 140 years for esmfixclim1 and esmfdbk1, and from 1850 to 2100 for esmfixclim2 and esmfdbk2, respectively. The BCC CSM1.1 carried out all carbon-cycle climate experiments, while the BCC CSM1.1-M only performed esmcontrol, esmhistorical and esmrcp Decadal prediction experiments The decadal prediction experiments are newly added within CMIP5, as there is considerable interest in exploring to what degree future climate changes can be attributed to the initial climate state, in particular to the observed ocean state. The ocean initial conditions should be representative for the observed anomalies at the starting date. In BCC CSM1.1 simulations, the nudging method is used to initialize the ocean state from 50 N to 50 S with a full field of observed ocean temperature. The observation dataset used is the monthly global ocean temperature reanalysis data from the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA). The time-interval for the nudging method is 1 d. The decadal prediction experiments carried out by the BCC CSM1.1 are listed in Table 3. Table 3 Decadal prediction experiment in CMIP5 Short name Experiment name Model Ensemble Time Forcing fields version size period decadalxxxx Initialized in year 1960,1965, T years GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,Vl,SS,Ds,BC,OC 1970,1975,1980,1985,1990, 1995,2000,2005 decadalxxxxmv Addition years during T years GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,Vl,SS,Ds,BC,OC novolcxxxx Volcano-free hindcasts T years GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,SS,Ds,BC,OC volcin2010 Prediction with 2010 hindcasts T years GHG,SD,Oz,Sl,Vl,SS,Ds,BC,OC Note: XXXX represents the first year of the prediction There are two groups of decadal prediction experiments prescribed by CMIP5. In group 1, the decadal prediction experiments are carried out with initial dates nudging towards the end of 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and In group 2, 30-year simulations should be finished with initial dates nudging to the end of 1960, 1980 and Three ensemble members are required and can optionally be increased to 10 in the simulations of these two groups. The simulations with the BCC CSM1.1 are not exactly the same as the requirements. All prediction experiments (decadalxxxx) are integrated for 30 years with four ensemble members. The start date are the 1st September, 1st November, 1st December in the previous year before prediction and 1st January of the first prediction year. In addition, except for the ten prediction years (1960, 1965,..., 2005) of the two groups, decadal prediction experiments initialized in the rest years from 1960 to 2006 are also carried out. The integration time is 10 years with three members. The start dates are the 1st September, 1st November in the previous year before the prediction year and 1st

6 46 ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH January of the first prediction year. The external forcings of these decadal experiments are the same as in the historical simulation until 2005 and as in RCP4.5 beyond The decadal experiments without volcanic activities (novolcxxxx) are also carried out. The external forcing are the same with decadalxxxx but without volcanic activities. The initial dates are nudging toward the end of 1960, 1975, 1980, 1985 and There is an additional run with a Pinatubo-like volcanic eruption imposed in 2010 initialized near the end of 2005 (volcin2010). Both novolcxxxx and volcin2010 have three ensemble members with 10-year simulation. These experiments enable an assessment of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on decadal predictions. 4 Model results Results of the two models in the 1pctCO2 experiment and the historical simulation are evaluated in the following to serve as a basic reference for the models ability in projecting future climate conditions. 4.1 Transient climate response The transient climate response (TCR) is an important metric to estimate the model sensitivity to the forcing of GHGs. The TCR is estimated with the 1pctCO2 experiment on the basis of an increase of CO 2 by 1% per year. The value of TCR is defined as the globally averaged surface temperature increment at the time of CO 2 doubling in 1pctCO2 experiment [Cubasch et al., 2001]. As shown in Figure 1, the simulated temperature grows linearly with increases in the CO 2 concentration. The comparison of the two models shows that the temperature in BCC CSM1.1-M is higher for the first 70 years, but afterwards lower than that in BCC CSM1.1. The TCR is 1.85 C for BCC CSM1.1 and 1.94 C for BCC CSM1.1-M. In the IPCC AR4, the 10% and 90% confidence limits of multiple models are about 1 and 3 C, with a mean TCR of 1.8 C [Meehl et al., 2012]. The mean TCR is 2.0 C for 16 climate models participating in CMIP5 [Geoffroy et al., 2012]. Thus, sensitivities of both BCC models fall well within the multi-model range and the BCC CSM1.1-M is closer to the multi-model mean (MME) of CMIP5. Figure 1 Changes in global mean surface air temperature in 140 years relative to the first year based on the 1pctCO2 experiment with BCC CSM1.1 and BCC CSM1.1-M 4.2 Historical simulation of mean temperature in China and globally Verified performances of climate models in reproducing past climate features are the basis of projections of future climate change. Here, the simulation of BCC models is compared with observations and the MME of the CMIP5 models. The MME has been believed to better reproduce the climate response to external forcing than individual model [Sun and Ding, 2008; Annan and Hargreaves, 2011]. The observed time series of global temperatures are derived from the HadCRUT3 dataset provided by the Climatic Research Unit [Brohan et al., 2006]. China averagely mean time series of surface air temperature during is from Tang and Ren [2005]. The Chinese-domain average for the model results is defined as the area-weighted average of three rectangular boxes: (28 50 N, E), ( N, E), and (43 54 N, E), as defined in Zhou and Yu [2006]. Figure 2 shows the evolution of global mean surface air temperature from 1861 to 2005 simulated with the two BCC models and 18 other models participating in the CMIP5. All models can reasonably reproduce the warming trend in the 20th century. The

7 XIN Xiao-Ge et al. / Introduction of CMIP5 Experiments Carried out with the Climate System Models model results show better agreement with the observation after the 1950s. Results of both BCC models are close to the MME and within the range of the multiple models results. The warming trends projected in the BCC models are higher than in the observation. None of the models can capture the observed warm peak in the 1940s. The warming amplitude during the early 21st century ( ) relative to mean is 0.45 C for the BCC CSM1.1 and 0.62 C for the BCC CSM1.1-M, which are higher than the observed values (0.33 C). The result of BCC CSM1.1 is closer to the MME value (0.48 C). During , the inter-annual correlation of annual global mean temperature with the observation is 0.88 for the BCC CSM1.1 and 0.83 for the BCC CSM1.1-M. The correlation coefficient of the MME in CMIP5 (0.88) is a little higher than that of CMIP3 (0.87) as presented in Zhou and Yu [2006]. Figure 2 Globally averaged surface air temperature anomalies from 1861 to 2005 relative to the mean as simulated within CMIP5 (the number followed the model label is the correlation coefficient between each model and the observation during ) Simulations of regionally averaged temperature in China are presented in Figure 3. In comparison with the global conditions, the model discrepancy is larger in the simulation of mean temperature in China. The BCC CSM1.1 and BCC CSM1.1-M results are also close to the MME. Results of the two models also show good resemblance to the observation except for the stronger inter-annual variability and the missing of the warm peak in the 1940s. During , the correlation with the observation is 0.50 for BCC CSM1.1 and 0.55 for BCC CSM1.1-M. So the high resolution model BCC CSM1.1-M has better ability in reproducing the evolution of regional mean temperature in China. This is also evident in the models from Japan (MIROC4h, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM-CHEM). Among those three models, the high resolution model MIROC4h has the highest correlation coefficient of 0.60 with the observation. The MME has the highest performance when correlated with the observations, with a correlation coefficient of 0.68, which is larger than the MME result in the CMIP3 (0.55) shown in Zhou and Yu [2006]. This may be due to the fact that the resolutions of many models in the CMIP5 are higher than their previous versions participating in the CMIP3. In the early 21st century, the warming relative to is 0.69 C for the observation and 0.63 C for the MME. Both of the BCC models underestimate the warming amplitude by about 0.15 C.

8 48 ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH Figure 3 Same as in Figure 2, but for regionally averaged surface air temperature in China 5 Conclusions In this study, the CMIP5 experiments carried out with the BCC climate models (BCC CSM1.1 and BCC CSM1.1-M) are described. Both models are coupled carbon/climate models. The atmospheric module of BCC CSM1.1-M has a higher horizontal resolution. The main information of the experiments is described, including the experimental design, external forcings and main purpose. The simulation results of the 1pctCO2 experiment and the historical simulation are examined in order to estimate the models sensitivity and their general performance in reproducing the historical climatic changes. In the 1pctCO2 experiment, the response of the temperature is stronger with the BCC CSM1.1- M than with the BCC CSM1.1 in the first 70 years, but vice versa afterwards. BCC CSM1.1-M is closer to the CMIP5 multiple models mean results. In the historical run, the two BCC models perform well in simulating the historical evolution of global temperature. During , the temporal correlation coefficient of observed annual global mean temperature with the BCC CSM1.1 is 0.88, identical to the MME result and higher than that of the BCC CSM1.1-M. For the regional surface air temperature in China, the BCC CSM1.1-M shows a better capability according to the inter-annual correlation coefficient of 0.55 during The two models overestimate the global warming but underestimate the warming amplitude over China in the early 21st century. Acknowledgements This work was jointly supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under No. 2010CB951903, the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No , , and the China Meteorological Administration under Grant No. GYHY , GYHY , CMAYBY References Ammann, C. M., G. A. Meehl, W. M. Washington, et al., 2003: A monthly and latitudinally varying volcanic forcing dataset in simulations of 20th century climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1657, doi: /2003gl Annan, J. D., and J. C. Hargreaves, 2011: Understanding the CMIP3 multimodel ensemble. J. Climate, 24, Brohan, P., J. J. Kennedy, I. Harris, et al., 2006: Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: A new dataset from J. Geophys. Res., 111, D12106,

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