Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model: A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community

✍ Scribed by Haiyang Yu, Qing Bao (auth.), Tianjun Zhou, Yongqiang Yu, Yimin Liu, Bin Wang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 468
• Series: Springer Earth System Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (LASG/IAP, CAS), a first-tier national geophysical laboratory. It serves as a powerful tool, both for deepening our understanding of fundamental mechanisms of the climate system and for making decadal prediction and scenario projections of future climate change. "Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model: A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community” is the first book to offer systematic evaluations of this model’s performance. It is comprehensive in scope, covering both developmental and application-oriented aspects of this climate system model. It also provides an outlook of future development of FGOALS and offers an overview of how to employ the model. It represents a valuable reference work for researchers and professionals working within the related areas of climate variability and change. Prof. Tianjun Zhou, Yongqiang Yu, Yimin Liu and Bin Wang work at LASG, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Spectral Atmospheric General Circulation Model Version 2....Pages 3-8
The Grid-Point Atmospheric Model of IAP LASG–Version 2: GAMIL2....Pages 9-13
LASG/IAP Climate System Ocean Model Version 2: LICOM2....Pages 15-26
LASG/IAP Sea Ice Model....Pages 27-31
FGOALS-s2 Brief....Pages 33-37
The Flexible Global Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System Model, Grid-Point Version 2: FGOALS-g2....Pages 39-43
Terrestrial Carbon Cycle in FGOALS-s2....Pages 45-47
Brief Overview of FGOALS CMIP5 Experiments....Pages 49-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Overview of FGOALS Contribution to International Climate Modeling Community During Past Years....Pages 61-65
Long-Term Trends of Two Versions of FGOALS2....Pages 67-81
Tropical Biases....Pages 83-91
The Diurnal Rainfall Cycle in FGOALS....Pages 93-98
Monsoon Intra-Seasonal Variability in Boreal Summer....Pages 99-106
ENSO and PDO in Two Versions of FGOALS....Pages 107-113
Seasonal Evolution of the Subtropical Anticyclones Simulated in FGOALS-s2....Pages 115-122
Monsoon Regimes in FGOALS....Pages 123-128
Stratospheric Circulation and its Changes in FGOALS-s2....Pages 129-141
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, and North Atlantic Oscillation in Three Climate System Models....Pages 143-151
Mascarene High, Australian High, and Antarctic Oscillation Simulated by FGOALS-s2....Pages 153-160
Spring Persistent Rainfall in a Grid-Point and a Spectral Atmospheric General Circulation Models....Pages 161-167
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The Silk Road Teleconnection Pattern in SAMIL2.0....Pages 169-178
The East Asian Subtropical Jet, East Asian Polarfront Jet, and Transient Activities in FGOALS....Pages 179-188
Preliminary Evaluations of ENSO-Related Cloud and Water Vapor Feedbacks in FGOALS....Pages 189-197
The Twentieth Century Historical Climate Simulation of FGOALS....Pages 199-206
Climate Extremes in FGOALS....Pages 207-215
Climate Sensitivity of the Flexible Global Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System Model....Pages 217-224
A Preliminary Diagnosis of High Climate Sensitivities simulated by FGOALS-s2 in CMIP5 Historical and RCP4.5 Scenarios....Pages 225-231
Decadal Climate Prediction of FGOALS....Pages 233-238
Last Millennial Climate Simulation of FGOALS....Pages 239-247
Thermal Expansion-Induced Sea Level Increase Determined by Flexible Global Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System Model....Pages 249-257
Indian Ocean Warming During 1950–2005 Determined by Flexible Global Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System Model (FGOALS)....Pages 259-266
Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) Projection of Climate Change by FGOALS....Pages 267-274
Paleoclimate Simulations by FGOALS....Pages 275-284
Simulation of Snow Cover Fraction Over Eurasia Determined by FGOALS....Pages 285-294
Evaluation of Land–Atmosphere Coupling Over Eastern China in the Two Versions of FGOALS....Pages 295-301
Sea Ice Simulations of FGOALS....Pages 303-309
Madden–Julian Oscillation in Boreal Winter....Pages 311-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
High-Resolution LICOM....Pages 321-331
Brief Introduction to the High-Resolution Grid-Point Atmospheric Model....Pages 333-338
High-Resolution FAMIL....Pages 339-349
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Improvements on the Representation of Moist Process in a Spectral Atmospheric Model....Pages 351-356
Radiative Process and Sulfate Direct Effect in FGOALS-s2....Pages 357-364
LASG/IAP Aerosol Module (LIAM) in the Grid-Point Atmospheric Model of IAP LASG (GAMIL)....Pages 365-373
Development of Land Surface Model in Frozen Soil and Snow....Pages 375-382
Land Surface Improvements....Pages 383-391
The Response of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Simulated by FGOALS-AVIM to Rising CO 2 ....Pages 393-403
Ocean–Atmosphere Flux Calculation in Version 2 of the Spectral Flexible Global Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System Model....Pages 405-412
Improvement of Sea Ice Model....Pages 413-414
Global Marine Ecosystem Model Coupled with LICOM2....Pages 415-421
FROALS: A Dynamical Downscaling Tool to FGOALS....Pages 423-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-483

✦ Subjects

Earth System Sciences; Meteorology; Climatology; Geophysics and Environmental Physics; Climate Change