TRACMIP is a climate modeling project that aims to understand the ITCZ and monsoons through a new ensemble of climate model simulations. TRACMIP is led by Aiko Voigt (Universiry of Vienna) and Michela Biasutti (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory).
TRACMIP is a climate modeling project that aims to understand the ITCZ and monsoons through a new ensemble of climate model simulations. TRACMIP is led by Aiko Voigt (University of Vienna) and Michela Biasutti (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory).
Understanding and modeling tropical rainfall has proven to be one of the most stubborn challenges in climate science. Tropical rainfall biases such as a double inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in the East Pacific have now persisted more than two decades despite the general improvements of climate models, and projections for the ITCZ and the monsoon systems remain uncertain in magnitude and sign.
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TRACMIP is a free and public data set that is available via the Earth System Grid Foundation (which also host the simulations from CMIP) and via the Pangeo project.
The TRACMIP introduction paper was published in 2016 the Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems. The paper is available at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016MS000748.
This repository serves to document the analysis scripts used in the JAMES introduction paper and its corrigendum. It also documents
the cmorizing of TRACMIP data which was needed to include TRACMIP in the ESGF archive, and it includes information on the simulation
protocal. It is hoped that this will facilitate the use of TRACMIP data and will be helpful if others intedn to run their own TRACMIP-inspired simulations.
The TRACMIP introduction paper was published in 2016 the Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems.
The paper is available at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016MS000748. Its bibtex reference is:
> @article{https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000748,
> author = {Voigt, Aiko and Biasutti, Michela and Scheff, Jacob and Bader, Jürgen and Bordoni, Simona and Codron, Francis and Dixon, Ross D. and Jonas, Jeffrey and Kang, Sarah M. and Klingaman, Nicholas P. and Leung, Ruby and Lu, Jian and Mapes, Brian and Maroon, Elizabeth A. and McDermid, Sonali and Park, Jong-yeon and Roehrig, Romain and Rose, Brian E. J. and Russell, Gary L. and Seo, Jeongbin and Toniazzo, Thomas and Wei, Ho-Hsuan and Yoshimori, Masakazu and Vargas Zeppetello, Lucas R.},
> title = {The tropical rain belts with an annual cycle and a continent model intercomparison project: TRACMIP},
> journal = {Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems},
> volume = {8},
> number = {4},
> pages = {1868-1891},
> keywords = {rain belts, ITCZ, monsoon, model hierarchy, model intercomparison project},
This repository serves to document the analysis scripts used in the JAMES introduction paper and to allow others to obtain help for using TRACMIP data or running their own TRACMIP-inspired simulations.
The TRACMIP repository includes the following directories:
