Note : check the database pages for up-to-date information!

 

Documentation of the PMIP models (Bonfils et al. 1998)


Table 2 : State of the PMIP database.

The table lists which PMIP experiments are performed for each group.

a/b: a indicates the number of years contributing to climatological statistics (i.e averaging period for data) and b indicates the number of years the model was "spun up" prior to the climatological averaging period (i.e. the spin-up time).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Acronym 
0 fix
6 fix
21 fix
0 cal
21 cal
bmrc
10/5
10/5
-
-
-
ccc2.0
10/2
10/2
10/2
10/40
10/40
ccm1
-
-
-
10/15
10/15
ccm3
8/6.3
8/0.3
-
-
-
ccsr1
10/10
10/10
10/10
-
-
climber2
10/50
10/50
-
10/50
10/50
cnrm-2
10/0.5
10/0.5
-
-
-
csiro
15/2
15/2
-
-
-
echam3
10/5
10/5
10/5
-
-
gen1
-
-
-
x
x
gen2
10/10
10/10
10/10
10/10
10/10
gfdl
25/3
25/3
-
25/40
20/40
giss-iip
10/2
10/2
10/2
-
-
lln_nh_1
-
-
-
1/49
1/49
lmcelmd4
15/1
15/1
15/1
15/15
15/15
lmcelmd5
15/1
15/1
15/1
-
-
mri2
10/1
10/1
10/1
14/15
14/15
msu
JJA-DJF
JJA-DJF
JJA-DJF
-
-
ugamp
10/1
10/1
10/1
10/1
10/1
uiuc11
10/2
10/2
-
-
-
ukmo
50/1
30/1
-
20/10
20/21
yonu
10/0.92
10/0.92
-
-
-

 
 
 

JJA/DJF = perpetual (June - July - August) / (December - January - February)

Last update November 9, 1998. For further information, contact: Céline Bonfils (pmipweb@lsce.ipsl.fr )