The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) is part of the Climate Research Division of
Environment Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; )Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment (). is the Ministry (government department), department ...
and is located at the
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1903 as Victoria College, British Columbia, Victoria Col ...
,
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Gre ...
. Its purpose is to develop and apply
climate models
Numerical climate models (or climate system models) are mathematical models that can simulate the interactions of important drivers of climate. These drivers are the atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice. Scientists use climate models to stu ...
to improve understanding of
climate change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...
and make quantitative projections of future climate in Canada and globally. Its seasonal forecasting system provides climate forecasts over Canada on timescales of months to years.
Current models
* CGCM3 The third generation coupled global climate model
* CGCM4 The fourth generation coupled global climate model
* CanESM2 The second generation Canadian Earth System Model
* CanESM5 The Canadian Earth System Model version 5
[Swart et al. (2019)]
* CanRCM The Canadian Regional Climate Model
[Scinocca et al. (2016)]
See also
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR ) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundat ...
*
Earth Simulator
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HadCM3
HadCM3 (abbreviation for ''Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3'') is a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) developed at the Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom. It was one of the major models used in the IPCC Third Ass ...
- explanation of an AOGCM
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EdGCM - an educational version of a GCM
Notes
References
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External links
Official website* Dimitri Lascaris. (December 10, 2019
New Climate Model Predicts Alarming Levels of Global Heating Retrieved December 10, 2019
Climate modeling
Climate change organizations based in Canada
Climatological research institutes
Environment and Climate Change Canada
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University of Victoria
Federal government buildings in British Columbia