EC-Earth: A seamless Earth-system prediction approach in action
(2010) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society — Vol. 91, n° 10, p. 1357-1363 (2010)
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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.
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Hazeleger, W., Severijns, C., Semmler, T., Ştefǎnescu, S., Yang, S., Wang, X., Wyser, K., Dutra, E., Baldasano, J. M., Bintanja, R., Bougeault, P., Caballero, R., Ekman, A. M. L., Christensen, J. H., Van Den Hurk, B., Jimenez, P., Jones, C., Kållberg, P., Koenigk, T., et al. (2010). EC-Earth: A seamless Earth-system prediction approach in action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91(10), 1357-1363. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010BAMS2877.1 (Original work published 2010)