The Tropical Rain Belts with an Annual Cycle and a Continent Model Inter- Accepted 12 NOV 2016 Comparison Project (TRACMIP)
PUBLICATIONS Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems RESEARCH ARTICLE The tropical rain belts with an annual cycle and a continent 10.1002/2016MS000748 model intercomparison project: TRACMIP Key Points: Aiko Voigt1,2, Michela Biasutti2, Jacob Scheff2,Jurgen€ Bader3, Simona Bordoni4, Francis Codron5, TRACMIP is a new model Ross D. Dixon6, Jeffrey Jonas7, Sarah M. Kang8, Nicholas P. Klingaman9, Ruby Leung10, Jian Lu10, intercomparison project on tropical 11 12 13 3 14 rain belt dynamics in today’s, past, Brian Mapes , Elizabeth A. Maroon , Sonali McDermid , Jong-yeon Park , Romain Roehrig , and future climate Brian E. J. Rose15, Gary L. Russell16, Jeongbin Seo8, Thomas Toniazzo17, Ho-Hsuan Wei4, Idealized simulations with Masakazu Yoshimori18, and Lucas R. Vargas Zeppetello2 comprehensive models coupled to slab ocean fill gap in current model hierarchy 1Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, This paper surveys TRACMIP’s broad Karlsruhe, Germany, 2Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, 3Max Planck climate characteristics and highlights Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, 4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, 5Sorbonne promising research directions Universites, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Laboratoire d’Oceanographie et du Climat, Paris, France, 6University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 7Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, Correspondence
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