CVCWG | Climate Variability & Change Working Group

The goals of the Climate Variability and Change Working Group (CVCWG) are to understand and quantify contributions of natural and anthropogenically-forced patterns of climate variability and change. Towards that end, the CVCWG coordinates, conducts and archives simulations with CESM that are of broad interest to the national and international climate research communities. These simulations are designed to enable researchers to evaluate and understand mechanisms of internal variability and externally-forced change due to natural and anthropogenic factors, detection and attribution of past climate change, and projections and predictions of future change. A complete list of CVCWG simulations available for public download via the Climate Data Gateway at NCAR is available here. 

Other CVCWG activities include development of the Climate Variability Diagnostics Package and Climate Data Guide, as well as contributions to the CCSM4 and CESM1 Special Issues of the Journal of Climate.

• Recent Simulations: CAM5.2 Prescribed SST Ensembles (forced with ERSSTv3b, ERSSTv4 and ERSSTv5) |
  CESM1.1 Tropical Pacific Pacemaker Ensemble 1920-2013
• Simulations by Model Version: CESM1.1 Large Ensemble Project |  CESM1.0 |  CCSM4 |  CCSM3
• CSL Proposals: 2018-2020 Proposal / Experiments | 2016-2018 Proposal / Experiments |
  2014-2016 |  2012-2014 |  2011-2012 

CVCWG Liaison Information

• Adam Phillips
• Gary Strand

CVCWG Co-Chair Information

Dr. Susan Bates
12/1/2015 - 11/30/2019
NCAR-CGD, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303.497.1398
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Dr. Clara Deser
8/1/2007 - 12/31/2019
NCAR-CGD, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303.497.1359
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Dr. Gerald Meehl
7/1/2008 - 12/31/2020
NCAR-CGD, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303.497.1331
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Dr. Peter Gleckler
3/1/2015 - 2/28/2019
PCMDI / LLNL, 7000 East Avenue, Mail Code L-103, Livermore, CA 94550
925.422.7631
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Dr. Shang-Ping Xie
3/1/2015 - 2/28/2019
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive #0230, 333 Nierenberg Hall, La Jolla, CA 92093-0230
858.822.0053
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