AMIP: the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project

Abstract

The Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) is an international effort to determine the systematic climate errors of atmospheric models under realistic conditions, and calls for the simulation of the climate of the decade 1979-1988 using the observed monthly averaged distributions of sea surface temperature and sea ice as boundary conditions. AMIP involves the international atmospheric modeling community in a major test and intercomparison of model performance; in addition to an agreed-to set of monthly averaged output variables, each of the participating models will generate a daily history of state. These data will be stored and made available in standard format by the program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. -from Author