IPSL Global Climate Modeling Group

Documentation of the IPSL climate model

(IPSLCM4 version)

One of the goals of the IPSL modeling community is to study how these different couplings can modulate climate and climate variability, and to determine how feedbacks in the Earth system control the response of climate to a perturbation such as the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.

For this purpose, the Earth system model of the IPSL is developed as a modular suite of model components of the Earth system that can be use either as stand alone models or coupled to each other.

The documentation presents the new features and results of the last version of the global IPSL coupled model that is used to run the set of simulations for the next IPCC assessment, the ENSEMBLES project, the palaeoclimate simulations for PMIP II and MOTIF projects, etc ....

The model has been developped at IPSL by the Pôle de Modélisation.

The IPSLCM4 documentation is available in various formats :

• A Web site, with color figures, navigation panels, etc ...

• A PDF document , with B&W figures (most of them) and clickable internal and external links (approximatively 7 Mo). Good version for black and white printing ;

• A PDF document , with color figures and clickable internal and external links (approximatively 7 Mo). Suitable for browsing (color links, etc ...) ;

• A PostScript document, with mostly B&W figures (approximatively 41 Mo) ;

• A PostScript document, with color figures (approximatively 41 Mo) ;

• The original LaTeX files are available here. The Ferret jnl files used to draw all figures are here.

• All data used for this documentation are available through http or DODS/OPeNDAP at http://dods.extra.cea.fr/data/p86mart/IPSLCM4/Doc/Data.

Technical documentations for IPSLCM4 users (present of future) :

• A technical documentation for IPSLCM4 users in html ;

• A course support (in French) for IPSLCM4 users in pdf ;

• The FAST (Ferret Analysis Scripting Toolbox) graphics package home page.

Useful links :

• Institut Pierre Simon Laplace des Sciences de l'Environnement Global (IPSL) ;

• Pôle de Modélisation ;

• The IPSL mc2 project, with useful links to IPPC simulations of IPSL ;

• IPCC web page ;

• The ENSEMBLES project web page – A project of the 6^th Framework Program of the European Union ;

• The PMIP II web page (Palaeoclimate Models Intercomparison Project) – An international project supported by WCRP/Clivar and IGBP/Pages ;

• The MOTIF projet web page – A project about palaeoclimate (models and observations) of the 5^th Framework Program of the European Union.

(This page is maintained at IPSL by Olivier Marti - last modification 4. mai. 2005)