CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model 
description and performance for present climate

Petoukhov, V; Ganopolski, A; Brovkin, Victor; Claussen, Martin; Eliseev, A; Kubatzki, C; Rahmstorf, S

doi:10.1007/PL00007919

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Petoukhov, V., Ganopolski, A., Brovkin, V., Claussen, M., Eliseev, A., Kubatzki, C., et al. (2000). CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model description and performance for present climate. Climate Dynamics, 16(1), 1-17. doi:10.1007/PL00007919.

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A 2.5-dimensional climate system model of intermediate complexity CLIMBER-2 and its performance for present climate conditions are presented. The model consists of modules describing atmosphere. ocean, sea ice, land surface processes, terrestrial vegetation cover, and global carbon cycle. The modules interact through the fluxes of momentum, energy, water and carbon. The model has a coarse spatial resolution, nevertheless capturing the major features of the Earth's geography. The model describes temporal variability of the system on seasonal and longer time scales. Due to the fact that the model does not employ flux adjustments and has a fast turnaround time, it can be used to study climates significantly different from the present one and to perform long-term (multimillennia) simulations. The comparison of the model results with present climate data show that the model successfully describes the seasonal variability of a large set of characteristics of the climate system, including radiative balance, temperature, precipitation, ocean circulation and cryosphere.