16–20 Sept 2024
University of Leeds, UK
Europe/London timezone

Solar forcing recommendations for CMIP7

17 Sept 2024, 13:50
20m
Cloth Hall Court (University of Leeds, UK)

Cloth Hall Court

University of Leeds, UK

https://conferencesandevents.leeds.ac.uk/cloth-hall-court/
CMIP-7 forcing and implementation in Earth system models CMIP-7 forcing and implementation in Earth system models

Speaker

Bernd Funke (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC)

Description

B. Funke (1), Thierry Dudok de Wit (2,3), Margit Haberreiter (4), Dan Marsh (5,6), Ilaria Ermolli (7), Doug Kinnison (5), Hilde Nesse (8), Annika Seppälä (9), Miriam Sinnhuber (10), Ilya Usoskin (11), Timo Asikainen (11), Stefan Bender (1), Theodosios Chatzistergos (12), Odele Coddington (13), Sergey Koldoboskiy (11), Judith Lean (14), Max van der Kamp (15), and Pekka Verronen (11,15)

(1) Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain
(2) LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France
(3) International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
(4) Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland
(5) National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
(6) University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
(7) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy
(8) Birkeland Centre for Space Science, University of Bergen, Norway
(9) University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
(10) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
(11) University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
(12) Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany
(13) Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Science, University of Colorado, USA
(14) Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
(15) Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Back in 2017, solar forcing recommendations for the 6th round of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) were provided which covered, for the first time, all relevant solar irradiance and energetic particle contributions. Since then, this dataset has been extensively used in climate model experiments and has been tested in various intercomparison studies. Further, new datasets have been come available. An International Space Sciene Institute (ISSI) Working Group has been established to review these recent achievements in order to define the strategy for building a revised solar forcing dataset for the upcoming 7th round of CMIP. After receiving community feedback on this strategy, a preliminary histrorical solar forcing dataset for CMIP7 has been recently constructed. Major changes with respect to CMIP6 include the adoption of the new Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) solar reference spectrum for solar spectral irradiance and an improved description of top-of-the-atmosphere energetic electron fluxes, as well as their reconstruction back to 1850 by means of geomagnetic proxy data. Solar irradiance varaibility in the reference forcing dataset is based on historical reconstructions generated with a preliminary version of the new empirical NASA NOAA LASP (NNL) Solar Spectral Irradiance Version 1 model, NNLSSI1. In adition, an alternative solar irradiance dataset, based on SATIRE, is provided for sensitivity experiments. In this talk we will discuss the applied modifications with respect to CMIP6 and their implication for climate modeling. Ongoing activities on solar forcing uncertainty quantification and the contruction of future solar forcing scenarios will also be summarized.

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Bernd Funke (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC)

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