Geoscientific Model Development, Volume 11, Issue 12


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2018
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ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks
Gerhard Krinner | Chris Derksen | Richard Essery | M. Flanner | Stefan Hagemann | Martyn P. Clark | Alex Hall | Helmut Rott | Claire Brutel‐Vuilmet | Hyungjun Kim | Cécile B. Ménard | Lawrence Mudryk | Chad W. Thackeray | Libo Wang | Gabriele Arduini | Gianpaolo Balsamo | Paul Bartlett | Julia Boike | Aaron Boone | F. Chéruy | Jeanne Colin | Matthias Cuntz | Yongjiu Dai | Bertrand Decharme | Jeff Derry | Agnès Ducharne | Emanuel Dutra | Xing Fang | Charles Fierz | Josephine Ghattas | Yeugeniy M. Gusev | Vanessa Haverd | Anna Kontu | Matthieu Lafaysse | R. M. Law | David M. Lawrence | Weiping Li | Thomas Marke | Danny Marks | Martin Ménégoz | О. Н. Насонова | Tomoko Nitta | Michio Niwano | John W. Pomeroy | Mark S. Raleigh | Gerd Schaedler | В. А. Семенов | Tanya Smirnova | Tobias Stacke | Ulrich Strasser | Sean Svenson | Dmitry Turkov | Tao Wang | Nander Wever | Hua Yuan | Wenyan Zhou | Dan Zhu

Abstract. This paper describes ESM-SnowMIP, an international coordinated modelling effort to evaluate current snow schemes, including snow schemes that are included in Earth system models, in a wide variety of settings against local and global observations. The project aims to identify crucial processes and characteristics that need to be improved in snow models in the context of local- and global-scale modelling. A further objective of ESM-SnowMIP is to better quantify snow-related feedbacks in the Earth system. Although it is not part of the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), ESM-SnowMIP is tightly linked to the CMIP6-endorsed Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison (LS3MIP).