Component models

COSMOS will construct an Earth system model based on models for the major components of the system: atmosphere ocean and land, and their sub components representing specific families of processes, e.g. chemistry in the atmosphere or marine biology. The COSMOS strategy aims at the exploitation of existing component models which firstly will be coupled to an Earth system model including the carbon cycle. A range of component models to be considered for COSMOS has been identified at the first COSMOS workshop,  and is shown in the table below. These models are currently used and/or developed at the institutions which were represented at the workshop.


COSMOS activities within the specified modelling sectors can be found under Organization.

Models used in the community

 

Modelling sector

Models (institutes developing the model)

Atmosphere
(dynamics+transport+physics)

ECHAM (MPIMET)
MAECHAM (MPIMET)
HAMMONIA (MPIMET)[1]
ICON (MPIMET, DWD, PIK, et al.)
ECHAM+ATTILA (DLR)
ECHAM+IFS (DMI)

Aerosol

DUST (MPIBGC)
HAM (MPIMET)
EQSAM (MPICHEM)
MADE (DLR+Ford+FZK)
SAM (MPIMET)
Finnish Aerosol Model (FMI, U. Helsinki)
Cirrus Model (DLR)

Atmospheric chemistry

MECCA/ MATCH (MPICHEM)
MOZECH (MPIMET) [1]
Chemistry (PMOD/WRC Davos)
CHEM (MPICHEM)
Oslo (U. Oslo)
Fin_ROSE
KASIMA (FZK)
HAMMONIA (MPIMET) [1]
MOZART (MPIMET)

Land

JSBACH=BETHY+LPJ+SOIL (MPIBGC, MPIMET)
HRBM soil C (U.Giessen)
NCIM C + N (U.Giessen)
GIWACOM (U.Giessen)
XTSURF deposition  emissions (MPICHEM)
Permafrost (?)

Glaciation

SICOPOLIS (TU-Darmstadt, MPIMET)

Hydrology+runoff

HD (MPIMET)
HBV (SMHI)
JSBACH-hydrology (MPIBGC, MPIMET)

Ocean and ice

MPIOM1 (MPIMET)
OPA (INGV)
HIM (FIMR)

Ocean biogeochemistry

HAMOCC (MPIMET)
Green Ocean (MPIBGC)

Regional model system

Arctic

REMO-MPIOM1 (MPIMET)
HIRHAM-MOM (AWI Potsdam)

Baltic Sea:

BALTIMOS (MPIMET, U. Kiel et al.)
RCAO (SMHI)

regional hydrol. models:

HD (MPIMET)
HBV (SMHI)
LARSIM (IBL)

Mediterranean-Atlantic

? (ENEA)

 

[1]: model is a coupled atmosphere-chemistry model