Overview

Summary of plans and status of the v1 low-res water cycle DECK simulation campaign for CMIP6. An overview of the CMIP6 experimental design is available in Eyring at al. (2016, GMD). The "entry card" simulations for CMIP6 consist of the DECK and historical simulations as listed in the table below extract from Table 2 of Eyring et al (2016):

While the minimum ensemble members is one, our goal is between 3 and 5 ensemble members for the historical experiments.

Simulation plan

The first DECK simulation is the piControl simulation which requires a minimum of 500 years. Other experiments will all be initialized by branching of from piControl at various stages. A possible scenario is provided in the figure below.