OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the 
physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

Griffies, S. M.; Danabasoglu, G.; Durack, P. J.; Adcroft, A. J.; Balaji, V.; Böning, C. W.; Chassignet, E. P.; Curchitser, E.; Deshayes, J.; Drange, H.; Fox-Kemper, B.; Gleckler, P. J.; Gregory, J. M.; Haak, Helmut; Hallberg, R. W.; Hewitt, H. T.; Holland, D. M.; Ilyina, Tatiana; Jungclaus, Johann H.; Komuro, Y.; Krasting, J. P.; Large, W. G.; Marsland, S. J.; Masina, S.; McDougall, T. J.; Nurser, A. J. G.; Orr, J. C.; Pirani, A.; Qiao, F.; Stouffer, R. J.; Taylor, K. E.; Treguier, A. M.; Tsujino, H.; Uotila, P.; Valdivieso, M.; Wang, Q.; Winton, M.; Yeager, S. G.

doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3231-2016

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OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

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Haak, Helmut
Director’s Research Group OES, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Ilyina, Tatiana
Ocean Biogeochemistry, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Jungclaus, Johann H.
Director’s Research Group OES, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Griffies, S. M., Danabasoglu, G., Durack, P. J., Adcroft, A. J., Balaji, V., Böning, C. W., et al. (2016). OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project. Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 3231-3296. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3231-2016.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002B-44D7-2

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The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) is an endorsed project in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses CMIP6 science questions, investigating the origins and consequences of systematic model biases. It does so by providing a framework for evaluating (including assessment of systematic biases), understanding, and improving ocean, sea-ice, tracer, and biogeochemical components of climate and earth system models contributing to CMIP6. Among the WCRP Grand Challenges in climate science (GCs), OMIP primarily contributes to the regional sea level change and near-term (climate/decadal) prediction GCs.

OMIP provides (a) an experimental protocol for global ocean/sea-ice models run with a prescribed atmospheric forcing; and (b) a protocol for ocean diagnostics to be saved as part of CMIP6. We focus here on the physical component of OMIP, with a companion paper (Orr et al., 2016) detailing methods for the inert chemistry and interactive biogeochemistry. The physical portion of the OMIP experimental protocol follows the interannual Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE-II). Since 2009, CORE-I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE-II (Interannual Forcing) have become the standard methods to evaluate global ocean/sea-ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability. The OMIP diagnostic protocol is relevant for any ocean model component of CMIP6, including the DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima experiments), historical simulations, FAFMIP (Flux Anomaly Forced MIP), C4MIP (Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate MIP), DAMIP (Detection and Attribution MIP), DCPP (Decadal Climate Prediction Project), ScenarioMIP, HighResMIP (High Resolution MIP), as well as the ocean/sea-ice OMIP simulations.