The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

Abstract The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) has recently been developed and released to the climate community. CCSM3 is a coupled climate model with components representing the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land surface connected by a flux coupler. CCSM3 is designed to produce realistic simulations over a wide range of spatial resolutions, enabling inexpensive simulations lasting several millennia or detailed studies of continental-scale dynamics, variability, and climate change. This paper will show results from the configuration used for climate-change simulations with a T85 grid for the atmosphere and land and a grid with approximately 1° resolution for the ocean and sea ice. The new…

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  National Science Foundation
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  U.S. Department of Energy
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
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  Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
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  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration