Contact:  In-Sik Kang

The AGCM intercomparison program was initiated right after the WCRP/CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel meeting held in Kyong-ju, Korea in April, 1998. The main foci of this program are intercomparing intraseasonal oscillation, monsoon dynamics and hydrology, atmosphere-ocean interaction, and global heat budget at the top of atmosphere and the surface in atmospheric GCMs. 14 GCM groups from 8 countries, that is CSIRO/Australia, IAP/China., IITM/India, MRI and CCSR in Japan, SNU/Korea, DNM/Russia, NCAR, GEOS(NASA), SUNA/GSFC(NASA), GFDL, COLA in U.S., UKMO/U.K. and NTU/Taiwan gave their interests in participating this program and are doing this monsoon intercomparison experiment with their models.

References:

  • Kang, I.-S., K. Jin, B. Wang, K.-M. Lau, J. Shukla, V. Krishnamurthy, S.D. Schubert, D.E. Waliser W.F. Stern, A. Kitoh, G.A. Meehl, M. Kanamitsu, V.Y. Galin, V. Satyan, C.K. Park and Q. Liu, 2002: Intercomparison of atmospheric GCM simulated anomalies associated with the 1997-98 El Nino. J. Climate, 15, 2791-2805.
  • Kang, I.-S., K. Jin, B. Wang, K.-M. Lau, J. Shukla, V. Krishnamurthy, S.D. Schubert, D.E. Waliser W.F. Stern, A. Kitoh, G.A. Meehl, M. Kanamitsu, V.Y. Galin, V. Satyan, C.K. Park and Q. Liu, 2002: Intercomparison of the climatological variations of Asian summer monsoon precipitation simulated by 10 GCMs. Clim. Dyn., 19, 383-395.