HadCM3 climate model outputs simulate historical and future climate under the IPCC SRES-A1B emission scenario. The dataset includes forcings for greenhouse gases like methane, sulfur, and tropospheric/stratospheric ozone. The Hadley Centre developed this model, which was used for the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and the data was last updated by SCIOPS on 2099-12-01.
Use Cases
- Analyze projected changes in heat and water fluxes between the 19-level atmosphere and 20-level ocean models.
- Model the impact of sulfur chemistry and anthropogenic SO2 emissions on direct and indirect radiative forcing.
- Validate the land surface scheme's representation of soil moisture evaporation, freezing, and melting against observational data.
- Study climate drift and momentum flux interpolation effects between atmosphere and ocean grids over long simulations.
- Assess greenhouse gas concentrations, including methane, consistent with the SRES-A1B future scenario.
Strengths
- Model requires no artificial flux adjustments to prevent excessive climate drift, indicating internal consistency.
- Atmosphere and ocean exchange information once per day with exact conservation of heat and water fluxes.
Limitations
- Momentum fluxes are interpolated between grids and are not conserved precisely, introducing a known approximation.
- Sample size, row count, and specific temporal coverage of the simulation are unknown.
- The dataset's last update date is far in the future (2099-12-01), suggesting metadata may be placeholder or erroneous.
Provenance
- Source
- Hadley Centre Coupled Model Version 3 (HadCM3), provided via NASA Earthdata.
- Collection Method
- Output from a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model simulation.
- Time Range
- Covers historical levels and future projections under the IPCC SRES-A1B scenario.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global spatial coverage.