edu.ucar.opensky::articles:18760 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:42:58.197687 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d70v8ff0 OMIP contribution to CMIP6: Experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project 2016-09-19T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d70v8ff0 https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3231-2016 Griffies, S. M. author Danabasoglu, Gokhan author Durack, P. J. author Adcroft, A. J. author Balaji, V. author Böning, C. W. author Chassignet, E. P. author Curchitser, E. author Deshayes, J. author Drange, H. author Fox-Kemper, B. author Gleckler, P. J. author Gregory, J. M. author Haak, H. author Hallberg, R. W. author Heimbach, P. author Hewitt, H. T. author Holland, D. M. author Ilyina, T. author Jungclaus, J. H. author Komuro, Y. author Krasting, J. P. author Large, William G. author Marsland, S. J. author Masina, S. author McDougall, T. J. author Nurser, A. J. G. author Orr, J. C. author Pirani, A. author Qiao, F. author Stouffer, R. J. author Taylor, K. E. author Treguier, A. M. author Tsujino, H. author Uotila, P. author Valdivieso, M. author Wang, Q. author Winton, M. author Yeager, Stephen author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) is an endorsed project in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses CMIP6 science questions, investigating the origins and consequences of systematic model biases. It does so by providing a framework for evaluating (including assessment of systematic biases), understanding, and improving ocean, sea-ice, tracer, and biogeochemical components of climate and earth system models contributing to CMIP6. Among the WCRP Grand Challenges in climate science (GCs), OMIP primarily contributes to the regional sea level change and near-term (climate/decadal) prediction GCs. OMIP provides (a) an experimental protocol for global ocean/sea-ice models run with a prescribed atmospheric forcing; and (b) a protocol for ocean diagnostics to be saved as part of CMIP6. We focus here on the physical component of OMIP, with a companion paper (Orr et al., 2016) detailing methods for the inert chemistry and interactive biogeochemistry. The physical portion of the OMIP experimental protocol follows the interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II). Since 2009, CORE-I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE-II (Interannual Forcing) have become the standard methods to evaluate global ocean/sea-ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability. The OMIP diagnostic protocol is relevant for any ocean model component of CMIP6, including the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima experiments), historical simulations, FAFMIP (Flux Anomaly Forced MIP), C4MIP (Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate MIP), DAMIP (Detection and Attribution MIP), DCPP (Decadal Climate Prediction Project), ScenarioMIP, HighResMIP (High Resolution MIP), as well as the ocean/sea-ice OMIP simulations. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License None eng geoscientificInformation