U.S. CLIVAR Climate Model Evaluation Project (CMEP)

Publications submitted/published as a result of CMEP

• Annamalai, H., K. Hamilton and K.R. Sperber, 2005: South Asian Summer Monsoon and Its Relationship with ENSO in the IPCC AR4 simulations. Journal of Climate (submitted)
• Capotondi, Antonietta, Andrew Wittenberg and Simona Masina, 2005: Spatial and Temperoal Structure of Tropical Pacific Interannual Variabililty in 20th Century Coupled Simulations. Ocean Modeling (revised November 2005)
• Cook, Kerry H. and Edward K. Vizy, 2005: Coupled Model Simulations of the West Africn Monsoon System: 20th Century Simulations and 21st Century Predictions, Journal of Climate (accepted).
• Dai, Aiguo, 2005: Precipitation Characteristics in Eighteen Coupled Climate Models. Journal of Climate (revised 20 December 2005).
• Greene, Arthur M., Lisa Goddard and Upmanu Lall, "Performance-based multimodel climate change scenarios 1: Low-frequency temperature variations", Journal of Climate, p. , vol. , ( ). Submitted
• Holland, Marika M. and Marilyn N. Raphael, "Twentieth Century Simulation of the Southern Hemisphere Climate in Coupled Models Part II: Antarctic Sea ice Variability", Climate Dynamics, p. , vol. , ( ). Submitted
• Joseph, Renu and Sumant Nigam, 2005: ENSO Evolution and Teleconnections in IPCC's 20th Century Climate Simulations: Realistic Representation? Journal of Climate (accepted 15 December)
• Kamenkovich, I.V., and B. M. Sloyan: “Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the IPCC climate model simulations: present and future climates”, Ocean Modeling (submitted)
• Lin, J.L., G.N. Kiladis, B.E. Mapes, K.M. Weickmann, K.R. Sperber, W.Y. Lin, M. Wheeler, S.D. Schubert, A. Del Genio, L.J. Donner, S. Emori, J.-F. Gueremy, F. Hourdin, P.J. Rasch, E. Roeckner, and J.F. Scinocca, 2005: Tropical intraseasonal variability in 14 IPCC AR4 climate models. Part I: Convective signals.   Journal of Climate, in press.
  
• Maloney, Eric D. and Dudley Chelton, "An assessment of the SST Influence on Surface Wind Stress in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models", Journal of Climate, submitted 23 May 2005, revised 7 September 2005.
• Overland, J.E., and M. Wang (2005): The Third Arctic Climate Pattern: 1930s and early 2000s. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(23), L23808, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024254.
• Overland, J.E., and M. Wang (2005): The Arctic climate paradox: the recent decrease of the Arctic Oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(6), L06701, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021752.
  
• Raphael, Marilyn N. and Marika M. Holland, "Twentieth Century Simulation of the Southern Hemisphere Climate in Coupled Models Part I: Large scale Atmospheric Circulation", Climate Dynamics, p. , vol. , ( ). Submitted
• Ruiz-Barradas, Alfredo and Sumant Nigam, 2005: IPCC's 20th Century Climate Simulations: Varied Representations of North American Hydroclimate Variability. Journal of Climate, accepted 25 November.
• Solomon, A., and D. Zhang, 2005: Pacific Subtropical Cell variability in coupled climate model simulations of the late 19th- 20th Century. Ocean Modelling, submitted.
• Sun, Shan and Rainer Bleck, 2005: Geographic distribution of the diapycnal component of thermohaline circulations in coupled climate models. Ocean Modelling (submitted May 2005).
• Wehner, Michael, "Changes in Daily Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature Extremes in the IPCC AR4 Models", US CLIVAR Variations, October 2005.
  
• Zhang, D., and M.J. McPhaden, 2005: Decadal variability of the shallow Pacific meridional overturning circulation: relation to tropical sea surface temperatures in observations and climate change models. Ocean Modelling, in press.

CMEP Proposals Awarded

Awards were announced 1 October 2004

The following two proposals were independently funded by the modeling centers.