User:SeverinTrangvik/NorESM

NorESM — the Norwegian Earth System Model — is a global climate model that is developed and maintained by NCC (NorESM Climate modeling Consortium). Development of NorESM started in 2007. NorESM has been an important contributor to WCRP (World Climate Research Programme), and reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

NorESM simulates several properties of the climate system, including wind, precipitation, temperature and cloud cover in the atmosphere; currents, temperature and salinity in the sea; vegetation on land and soil moisture and temperature; and extension and thickness of snow and ice cover on land and at sea. The structural composition of NorESM builds to a large extent on the Community Earth System model, but with an ocean module unique to NorESM and a number of specific additions and adjustments for the atmospheric, land and cryosphere modules.

Updated information about and results from NorESM is available from the NorESM homepage, and from the NorESM documentation and NorESM source code web pages.