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SUMMARY:The next generation of UK Earth System Models: The UKESM project -
  Colin Jones (UK Met Office)
DTSTART:20131218T140000Z
DTEND:20131218T150000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Dan Jones
DESCRIPTION:To develop appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies to
  address potential future environmental change society requires reliable e
 stimates of the future state of the full Earth system. Such requirements e
 xtend the demands on the climate modelling community\, beyond that traditi
 onally considered in physical climate modelling\, to also include key biog
 eochemical cycles and phenomena that may\; (i) feedback onto the changing 
 physical climate and/or (ii) change themselves in response to changes in t
 he physical climate and thereby impact society and natural ecosystems. To 
 address these needs\, climate modelling groups around the world are now de
 veloping Earth System Models (ESMs) which build on a core physical coupled
  Global Climate Model (GCM)\, integrating representations of important bio
 geochemical phenomena into the GCM\, with suitable couplings between the v
 arious model components. \nUnder the Joint Weather and Climate Research Pr
 ogramme\, the Met Office-Hadley Centre and the Natural Environmental Resea
 rch Council (NERC) will jointly resource and coordinate future Earth Syste
 m Modelling activities in the UK\, with an initial aim being to develop a 
 1st version of a UK Earth System Model (UKESM1) for participation in the 6
 th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)\, in ~2016-2018. \nThis p
 resentation will motivate the requirement for advanced ESMs\, presenting a
  number of recent findings detailing important interactions between the ph
 ysical climate system and global biogeochemical cycles. It will then go on
  to outline the UKESM project and present initial development plans for th
 e 1st version of UKESM1. \n
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, Room 330B
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