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EU Cloud intercomparison, process study and evaluation project (EUCLIPSE)

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Description:

The central objective of EUCLIPSE is to reduce the uncertainty in the representation of cloud processes and feedbacks in the new generation of Earth System Models (ESMs), in support of the IPCC's fifth assessment report. Novel, process-oriented evaluations of clouds in present-day and future climate simulations made by the leading European ESMs identified the cloud types and processes responsible for the spread in climate sensitivity and future precipitation changes across the models, and for deficiencies in the simulation of the present-day climate. The new diagnostics and metrics developed in EUCLIPSE will inform targeted sensitivity experiments to isolate the processes responsible for cloud feedback uncertainty.

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Lead

KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS METEOROLOGISCH INSTITUUT (NL) KOOT Annemarie

Partners

* Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Netherlands * Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany * Met Office, United Kingdom * Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, France * Academy of Athens, Greece * European Centre of Medium Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom * Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Météo-France, France * University of Stockholm, Sweden * Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland * University of Warsaw, Poland * German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research, Germany

Source of funding

FP 7

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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