The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL‐ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics

作者：John P. Dunne, Larry W. Horowitz, Alistair Adcroft, Paul A. Ginoux, Isaac M. Held, Jasmin Gail John, John P. Krasting, Sergey L. Malyshev, Vaishali Naïk, Fabien Paulot, Elena Shevliakova, Charles A. A Stock, Niki Zadeh, V. Balaji, Chris Blanton, K. A. Dunne, C. Dupuis, J. Durachta, Raphaël Dussin, Paul P. G. Gauthier, Stephen M. Griffies, Huan Guo, Robert Hallberg, Matthew Harrison, Jian He, William J. Hurlin, Colleen E. McHugh, Raymond L. Menzel, Paul C. D. Milly, Sergey Nikonov, David J. Paynter, Jeffrey J. Ploshay, Aparna Radhakrishnan, Kimberly M. Rand, Brandon G. Reichl, Thomas E. Robinson, M. D. Schwarzkopf, Lori T. Sentman, Seth D. Underwood, H. Vahlenkamp, Michael Winton, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Bruce L. Wyman, Yujin Zeng, Ming Hua Zhao · 发表于：Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1029/2019ms002015 · 被引用次数：1047 · 研究领域：Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics、Climate variability and models、Marine and coastal ecosystems

Abstract We describe the baseline coupled model configuration and simulation characteristics of GFDL's Earth System Model Version 4.1 (ESM4.1), which builds on component and coupled model developments at GFDL over 2013–2018 for coupled carbon‐chemistry‐climate simulation contributing to the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. In contrast with GFDL's CM4.0 development effort that focuses on ocean resolution for physical climate, ESM4.1 focuses on comprehensiveness of Earth system interactions. ESM4.1 features doubled horizontal resolution of both atmosphere (2° to 1°) and ocean (1° to 0.5°) relative to GFDL's previous‐generation coupled ESM2‐carbon and CM3‐chemistry models. ESM4.1 brings together key representational advances in CM4.0 dynamics and physics along with those in aerosols and their precursor emissions, land ecosystem vegetation and canopy competition, and multiday fire; ocean ecological and biogeochemical interactions, comprehensive land‐atmosphere‐ocean cycling of CO 2 , dust and iron, and interactive ocean‐atmosphere nitrogen cycling are described in detail across this volume of JAMES and presented here in terms of the overall coupling and resulting fidelity. ESM4.1 provides much improved fidelity in CO 2 and chemistry over ESM2 and CM3, captures most of CM4.0's baseline simulations characteristics, and notably improves on CM4.0 in (1) Southern Ocean mode and intermediate water ventilation, (2) Southern Ocean aerosols, and (3) reduced spurio...