WGCM Publications

WGCM meeting reports

• Report of the 22nd Session, 26 & 29 March 2019, Barcelona, Spain
• Report of the 21st Session, 9-13 October 2017, Exeter, UK
• Report of the 20th Session, 1-2 November 2016, Princeton, USA
• Report of the 19th Session, 18-20 October 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Report of the 18th Session, 08-10 October 2014, Grainau, Germany
• Report of the 17th Session, 01-03 October 2013, Victoria, Canada
• Report of the 16th Session, 24-26 September 2012, Max Planck Insitute, Hamburg, Germany
• Report of the 15th Session, 19-21 October 2011, NCAR, Boulder, USA
• Report of the 14th Session, 4-6 October 2010, UK Met Office, Exeter, UK
• Report of the 13th Session, 28-30 September 2009, San Francisco, USA.
• Report of the 12th Session, 22-24 September 2008, Paris, France.
• Report of the 11th Session, 3-5 September 2007, Hamburg, Germany.
• Report of the 10th Session, 25-26 September 2006, Victoria, Canada.
• Report of the 9th Session, Joint Meeting with WMP, 3-5 October 2005, Exeter, UK.
• Report of the 8th Session, 25-27 October 2004, Yokohama, Japan.
• Report of the 7th Session, 24-26 September 2003, Hamburg, Germany.
• Report of the 6th Session, 7-10 October 2002, Victoria, Canada.
• Report of the 5th Session, 4-7 February 2002, Bracknell, UK.
• Report of the 4th Session, 9-11 October 2000, La Jolla, USA.

CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issues

• The WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5), CLIVAR Exchanges 56, Vol 16, 32pp, 2011.
• Special Issue on Coupled Modelling, CLIVAR Exhanges 28, Vol. 8, No.4, 32pp, 2003.
• Anthropogenic Climate Change Prediction, Detection and Attribution, CLIVAR Exchanges 21, Vol. 6, No. 3, 19pp, 2001.

Other relevant publications

• Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organization
  Eyring, V., Bony, S., Meehl, G. A., Senior, C. A., Stevens, B., Stouffer, R. J., and Taylor, K. E.: , Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 1937-1958, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-1937-2016, 2016.
• Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP
  Eyring, V., Gleckler, P. J., Heinze, C., Stouffer, R. J., Taylor, K. E., Balaji, V., Guilyardi, E., Joussaume, S., Kindermann, S., Lawrence, B. N., Meehl, G. A., Righi, M., and Williams, D. N. , Earth Syst. Dynam., 7, 813-830, doi:10.5194/esd-7-813-2016, 2016.
• White Paper on WCRP Grand Challenge – Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity: How the interactions between clouds, greenhouse gases and aerosols affect temperature and precipitation in a changing climate
  Draft, November 14, 2012 - Lead Coordinators: Sandrine Bony and Bjorn Stevens
• The WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5) - CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue, No. 56, Vol 16, 32pp, 2011.
• Data and Bias Correction for Decadal Climate Predictions CMIP-WGCM-WGSIP Decadal Climate Prediction Panel, International CLIVAR Project Office Publication Series 150, 5pp, 2011.
• Good Practice Guidance Paper on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections
  Knutti, R., G. Abramowitz, M. Collins, V. Eyring, P.J. Gleckler, B. Hewitson, and L. Mearns, In: Meeting Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Expert Meeting on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2010
• The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
  Moss, R., H., J. A. Edmonds, K. A. Hibbard, M. R. Manning, S. K. Rose, D. P. van Vuuren, T. R. Carter, S. Emori, M. Kainuma, T. Kram, G. A. Meehl, J. F. B. Mitchell, N. Nakicenovic, K. Riahi, S. J. Smith, R. J. Stouffer, A. M. Thomson, J. P. Weyant and T. J. Wilbanks (2010). Nature, 463, 747-756, doi:10.1038/nature08823.
• Challenges and opportunities in research on climate, weather, water and environment
  A Report of the WMO Executive Council Task Team (EC-RTT) on Research Aspects of an Enhanced Climate, Weather, Water and Environmental Prediction Framework, WMO/TD-No. 1496, June 2009.
• Taylor, K. E., R. J. Stouffer and G. A. Meehl, 2009: A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design,
• Strategies: Revolution in Climate Prediction is Both Necessary and Possible: A Declaration at the World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction
  Shukla, J., R. Hagedorn, B. Hoskins, J. Kinter, J. Marotzke, M. Miller, T. N. Palmer, and J. Slingo, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 175–178, 2009.
• Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations, U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.1, July 2008.
• The Regional Climate Change Hyper-Matrix Framework
  Giorgi, F., N. S. Diffenbaugh, X. J. Gao, E. Coppola, S. K. Dahs, O. Frumento, S. A. Rauscher, A. Remedio, I. Seidou Sanda, A. Steiner, B. Sylla, and A. S. Zakey, EOS, 89, No. 45, 2008.
• Workshop Report of the World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction, Reading, UK, 6-9 May 2008
• Towards new scenarios for analysis of emissions, climate change, impacts, and response strategies. IPCC Expert Meeting Report.
  Moss et al., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva, 132pp, 2008.
• The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
  Moss, R., H., J. A. Edmonds, K. A. Hibbard, M. R. Manning, S. K. Rose, D. P. van Vuuren, T. R. Carter, S. Emori, M. Kainuma, T. Kram, G. A. Meehl, J. F. B. Mitchell, N. Nakicenovic, K. Riahi, S. J. Smith, R. J. Stouffer, A. M. Thomson, J. P. Weyant and T. J. Wilbanks (2010). Nature, 463, 747-756, doi:10.1038/nature08823.
• Future Climate Change Research and Observations: GCOS, WCRP and IGBP Learning from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
  GCOS-117, WCRP-127, IGBP Report No. 58 (WMO/TD No. 1418), 2008.
• IPCC Standard Output from Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCMs
  WGCM Climate Simulation Panel with the assistance of PCMDI, 34pp., 2007.
• Summary of the 3rd WGNE Workshop on Systematic Errors in Climate and NWP Models.
  Gleckler, P., M. Miller, J. Hack, D. Bader, K. Sperber and K. Taylor. UCRL-TR-403078, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 8pp., 2007
• The WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Era in Climate Change Research.
  Meehl, G.A., C. Covey, T. Delworth, M. Latif, B. McAvaney, J.F.B. Mitchell, R.J. Stouffer, and K.E. Taylor. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 1383-1394, 2007.
• A Strategy for Climate Change Stabilization Experiments with AOGCMs and ESMs.
  Report from the Aspen Global Change Institute 2006 Session - Earth System Models: The Next Generation, July 30 - August 5, 2006 and joint WGCM/AIMES Steering Committee Meeting 27 September 2006.
  G. A. Meehl and K. Hibbard (2007)