EC-Earth: A seamless Earth-system prediction approach in action
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The EC-Earth consortium is a grouping of meteorologists and Earth-system scientists from 10 European countries, put together to face the challenges of climate and weather forecasting. The NWP system of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECWMF) forms the basis of the EC-Earth Earth-system model. NWP models are designed to accurately capture short-term atmospheric fluctuations. They are used for forecasts at daily-to-seasonal time scales and include data assimilation capabilities. Climate models are designed to represent the global coupled ocean-atmosphere system. The atmospheric model of EC-Earth version 2, is based on ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), cycle 31R1, corresponding to the current seasonal forecast system of ECMWF. The EC-Earth consortium and ECMWF are collaborating on development of initialization procedures to improve long-term predictions. The EC-Earth model displays good performance from daily up to inter-annual time scales and for long-term mean climate.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
Vol/bind | 91 |
Udgave nummer | 10 |
Sider (fra-til) | 1357-1363 |
Antal sider | 7 |
ISSN | 0003-0007 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 1 okt. 2010 |
Eksternt udgivet | Ja |
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