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@article{Jones:2016:10.5194/gmd-2016-36,
author = {Jones, CD and Arora, V and Friedlingstein, P and Bopp, L and Brovkin, V and Dunne, J and Graven, H and Hoffman, F and Ilyina, T and John, JG and Jung, M and Kawamiya, M and Koven, C and Pongratz, J and Raddatz, T and Randerson, J and Zaehle, S},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-2016-36},
journal = {Geoscientific Model Development Discussions},
pages = {2853--2880},
title = {The C4MIP experimental protocol for CMIP6},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2016-36},
volume = {9},
year = {2016}
}

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AB  - Coordinated experimental design and implemen-tation has become a cornerstone of global climate modelling.Model  Intercomparison  Projects  (MIPs)  enable  systematicand robust analysis of results across many models, by reduc-ing the influence of ad hoc differences in model set-up or ex-perimental boundary conditions. As it enters its 6th phase,the  Coupled  Model  Intercomparison  Project  (CMIP6)  hasgrown significantly in scope with the design and documenta-tion of individual simulations delegated to individual climatescience communities.The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercompar-ison Project (C4MIP) takes responsibility for design, docu-mentation,  and  analysis  of  carbon  cycle  feedbacks  and  in-teractions in climate simulations. These feedbacks are poten-tially large and play a leading-order contribution in determin-ing the atmospheric composition in response to human emis-sions of CO2and in the setting of emissions targets to sta-bilize climate or avoid dangerous climate change. For overa  decade,  C4MIP  has  coordinated  coupled  climate–carboncycle simulations, and in this paper we describe the C4MIPsimulations that will be formally part of CMIP6. While theclimate–carbon cycle community has created this experimen-tal design, the simulations also fit within the wider CMIP ac-tivity, conform to some common standards including docu-mentation and diagnostic requests, and are designed to com-plement the CMIP core experiments known as the Diagnos-tic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima (DECK).C4MIP has three key strands of scientific motivation andthe requested simulations are designed to satisfy their needs:(1)  pre-industrial  and  historical  simulations  (formally  partof the common set of CMIP6 experiments) to enable modelevaluation, (2) idealized coupled and partially coupled sim-ulations  with  1 %  per  year  increases  in  CO2to  enable  di-agnosis of feedback strength and its components, (3) futurescenario simulations
AU  - Jones,CD
AU  - Arora,V
AU  - Friedlingstein,P
AU  - Bopp,L
AU  - Brovkin,V
AU  - Dunne,J
AU  - Graven,H
AU  - Hoffman,F
AU  - Ilyina,T
AU  - John,JG
AU  - Jung,M
AU  - Kawamiya,M
AU  - Koven,C
AU  - Pongratz,J
AU  - Raddatz,T
AU  - Randerson,J
AU  - Zaehle,S
DO  - 10.5194/gmd-2016-36
EP  - 2880
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1991-962X
SP  - 2853
TI  - The C4MIP experimental protocol for CMIP6
T2  - Geoscientific Model Development Discussions
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2016-36
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/43304
VL  - 9
ER  -

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