EC-Earth, a European consortium which aims to provide reliable climate information, is in the final stages of preparing for a climate model intercomparison project expected to feed into the next IPCC report.
Final decisions on tuning the latest version of the consortium’s Earth system model were taken at a meeting of nearly 70 scientists at ECMWF from 29 to 31 January.
The meeting also heard that the next version of ECMWF’s OpenIFS, which EC-Earth is planning to use for the atmosphere–land component of its model, will be released later this year.