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EC-Earth

EC-Earth - A European community Earth System Model

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Global climate models and Earth system models are numerical models of the Earth's climate system and are used to understand how the Earth's various components, including the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, biosphere, and cryosphere, interact with each other and how they respond to natural and human-induced changes. These models simulate the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the Earth system, at different levels of complexity. As such, they are essential tools for understanding and predicting climate variability and climate change.

EC-Earth is an Earth system model developed by a European consortium of national meteorological services and research institutes. The EC-Earth consortium was started in 2006 and has welcomed many new partners ever since. By now, EC-Earth has become a prominent state-of-the-art model within the international landscape of global climate and Earth system models. The EC-Earth consortium has contributed to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), and will continue to do so in the future. EC-Earth is also used as a research tool in various national, European and international projects.

INES contribution to EC-Earth is the 2nd generation global dynamic vegetation model (DGVM) LPJ-GUESS, which is coupled to the atmospheric model OIFS in EC-Earth4 (IFS in EC-Earth3) and provides vegetation composition and distribution and is essential as the terrestrial component for the carbon cycle. 

EC- Earth model figure
Figure adapted from Döscher et al. (2022). All potential component linkages and frequencies are documented in standard resolution. Various configurations involve component models and their couplings.

Further information on the EC-Earth Model can be found on its website or in the EC-Earth Model description paper authored by Döscher et al. (2022).