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West African Monsoon 

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LIST OF MODELS PARTICIPATING ON WAMME

 

Model

Contact persons

Type

Resolution

Rad. scheme

Conv. scheme

PBL/shallow cloud

Cloud

Surface

Aerosol / Dust

COLA GCM

(KInter et al., 1997)

Z.       Guo,

P. Dirmeyer

 

GCM

T62L28

Briegleb(1992), Collins et al. ,2002

Moorthi and Suarez, 1992, Bacmeister et al., 2000

Hong and Pan, 1996

Kiehl et al., 1998

SSiB

 

Cornell/NCAR CCSM3
(Collins et al., 2006)

A.  Sealy,

N. Mohowald

GCM

T42L26

Briegleb, 1998; Collins et al., 2002

Zhang and McFarlane, 1995

K-scheme

Rasch and Kristjánsson, 1998

Slingo, 1987

CLM (Bonan et al., 2002)

Sulphur cycle, dust, and mineral aerosol

Germany U. of Cologne ECHAM5 / SVege

(Roeckner et al, 2003)

A.  Fink,

T. Bruecher

GCM

T63L31

Mlawer 1997

Tiedke, 1989 / Nordeng 1994

k-scheme

Lohmann and Roeckner, 1996, Tompkins, 2002

LSP (Hagemann, 202)

Climat. Aerosol

(Tanre, 1982)

Japan U. Of Hokkaido University MIROC (K-1 model developers 2004)

 

T. Yamada

GCM

T42L20 or T63L20

Nakajima et al., 2000

Arakawa and Schubert, 1974

Meller-Yamada

Smith, 1990

MATSIRO (Takata et al., 2003)

Takemura et al., 2000, 2003

Japan MRI/JMA AGCM
(Mizuta et al., 2006)

A. Kitoh

GCM

TL959L60

Shibata and Uchiyana, 1992;

Shibata and Aoki, 1989

Prognostic Arakawa-Schubert

Stratoscumulus param. Slingo, 1987

Smith, 1990

SiB with 4 soil layers, 3 snow layer (Sellers et al., 1996)

Sulfate aerosols, no dust

NASA GMAO

(Schubert et al., 2002)

M. Wu,,

S. Schubert

GCM

2.0°x2.5°x34

Chou and Suarez, 1999

Relaxed Arakawa Schubert

K-scheme

None

MOSAIC (Koster and Suarez, 1996)

None

NASA GSFC FVGCM
 
(Lin and Rood, 1996 and 1997)

K._M. Lau,

K.M. Kim

GCM

2.0°x2.5°x55

Chou and Suarez, 1999; Chou et al., 2001

Relaxed Arakawa Schubert

Holtslag and Boville, 1993

 

LSM (Bonan, 1996)

Aerosol from GOCART model (Chin et al., 2002)

NCEP CFS (Saha et al.,  2006)

A. Vintzileos

AOGCM

T62L64 (Atmos)

1°(zonal)x0.3-1°(meri), 40 levels (Ocean)

Hou et al. 1996, 2002

Hong and Pan 1998

Hong and Pan 1996

Zhao and Carr 1997, Sundqvist et al. 1989, Moorthi et al. 2001

OSU (Pan and Mahrt, 1987)

None

NCEP GFS AGCM

W. Thiaw,

V. KUmar

GCM

T62L64

Hou et al., 1996

Hong and Pan, 1998

Hong and Pan, 1996

Prognostic cloud condensate, simple microphysics (Zhao and Carr, 1997)

OSU (Pan and Marht, 1987)

None

U.K. Meto HadAM3
(Pope et al., 2000)

D. Rowell

GCM

2.5°x3.75°x19

Edwards and Slingo, 1996

Flux penetrate convective scheme.

(Gregory and Rowntree, 1990)

K-scheme

Prognostic water vapor plus frozen and liquid cloud water

MOSES-1 (Cox et al., 1999)

Climat. aerosol

UCLA AGCM (Mechoso et al., 2000)

Y. Xue,

F. De Sales

GCM

2.5°x2.5°x17

Katayama, 1972; Harshvardhan et al., 1987

Arakawa and Schubert, 1974; Lord et al., 1982

Suarez et al., 1983

Prognostic cloud water and ice (Kohler, 1999)

SSIB-1 (Xue et al., 1991)

None

UCLA MRF GCM (Kanamitsu et al., 2002, Xue et al., 2004)

Y. Xue,

F. De Sales

GCM

T62L28

Chou, 1992;  Chou and Suarez, 1994

Moorthi and Suarez, 1992

Hong and Pan, 1996

Slingo, 1987

SSIB-1 (Xue et al., 1991)

None

 
 

Model

Contact Person

Type

Resolution

Rad. scheme

Conv. scheme

PBL/shallow cloud

Cloud

Surface

Aerosol / Dust

Cornell MM5 (Grell et al., 1994)

K. Cook,

 

RCM

50km, 24 levels

CCM2

Kain-Fritsch

MRF PBL

w/ shallow cumulus

Simple ice, explicit moisture scheme

NOAH LSM

O3 and CO2, no dust

Italy CNR-IBIMET RAMS (Pielke et al. 1992)

M. Pasqui

RCM

60 Km, 32 levels

Harrington scheme

Modified Kuo

Mellor/Yamada

Walko et al. 1995

LEAF-2 (Walko et al. 2000)

CCN Prescribed Concentration

Ivory Coast U. of  Cocody RegCM

A. Konare

RCM

50km, 18 levels

CCM3

Kiehl et al. (1996)

MIT (Emanuel 1991)

Anthes–Kuo, Grell (1993)

Nonlocal, counter gradient

Holtslag et al. (1990)

SUBEX

Pal et al. (2000)

BATS 1e

Dickinson et al. (1993)

SUBBATS

Giorgi et al. (2003a)

Sulphate aerosols/ (Kasibhatla et al, 1997, Qian etal, 2001) cycle /

Cabonaceous Aerosol / Solmon et al. (2006)

Dust / Zakey et al. (2006)

NASA CCSR/GISS RM3
(Druyan et al., 2003)

L. Druyan,

M. Fulakeza

RCM

50km, 16 levels

GLAS/UCLA

DelGenio and Yao, 1993

K-scheme

DelGenio et al., 1996

Rosenzweig and Abramopoulos, 1997

None

Niger, U. of Abdou Moumouni

PRECIS

(jones et al., 2004)

Seidou Sanda Ibrah

RCM

0.44°x0.44°x50

Edwards and Slingo, 1996

Flux penetrate convective scheme.

(Gregory and Rowntree, 1990)

K-scheme

Prognostic water vapor plus frozen and liquid cloud water

MOSES-1 (Cox et al., 1999)

Sulphate aerosols

UCLA Eta

Y. Xue,

F. De Sales

RCM

80x80 km, 38 levels

Fels and Schwartzkopf, 1975

Betts-Miller-Janjic

Mellor-Yamada 2.5

Zhao et al., 1996

SSIB-1 (Xue et al., 1991)

None

U.K. Meto PRECIS

(Jones et al., 2004)

W. Moufouma –Okia,

D. Rowell

RCM

0.44°x0.44°x50

Edwards and Slingo, 1996

Flux penetrate convective scheme.

(Gregory and Rowntree, 1990)

K-scheme

Prognostic water vapor plus frozen and liquid cloud water

MOSES-1 (Cox et al., 1999)

Sulphate aerosols