ESM Perspectives on IAV and Coordination with Other Groups

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ESM Perspectives on IAV and Coordination with
Other Groups

• Gerald A. Meehl
• National Center for Atmospheric Research

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To facilitate connections across different
disciplines in a variety of research communities,
it is helpful to have community-representative
panels or working groups, each with
representatives from that community, to be able
to interface with other similar panels or working
groups from other research communities for the
purpose of planning and coordinating earth system
modeling activities Guiding principal IPCC
should assess research, not organize it (though
in the past IPCC has stepped in if there was an
organizational vacuum) It is helpful for an
existing international organization to sponsor
such panels or working groups to provide
credibility to the effort, and to furnish travel
funds for meetings
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The IPCC WG1 research community working on
Earth System Models World Climate Research
Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Models
(WGCM) global coupled climate modeling groups,
model components, detection/attribution Internati
onal Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth
System (AIMES) carbon cycle modelers, dynamic
vegetation, ecosystems, land cover, land
use Joint WCRP-IGBP Atmospheric Chemistry and
Climate (ACC) atmospheric chemistry and aerosol
modelers
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The IPCC WG3 research community working on
integrated assessment models and emission
scenarios The Integrated Assessment Modeling
Consortium (The Consortium) Integrated
assessment modeling groups Recently
self-organized with no international sponsor as
of yet
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IPCC Working Group 2 research community working
on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability IPCC
Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for
Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA)
representatives from WG1 and WG2 not designed
as a community-representative group for IAV
community organized by IPCC What is needed
A community-representative group for the IAV
community with members from major IAV groups
internationally and key university IAV
researchers, sponsored by an international
organization (IHDP?) to interface with other
panels and working groups