FORP-NP10 version4

Future Ocean Regional Projection (FORP) datasets were produced by high-resolution regional ocean model simulations with ensemble atmospheric forcings from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models and scenarios. These were developed by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency. The development of FORP were supported by Social Implementation Program on Climate Change Adaptation Technology (SI-CAT, grant no.: JPMXD0715667163) and Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models (TOUGOU, grant no.: JPMXD0717935561), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Meteorological Research Institute Community Ocean Model version 4 (MRI.COMv4; Tsujino et al. 2017) was used for the regional ocean models.

FORP-NP10 is a historical and future ocean projection dataset in the North Pacific Ocean with an approximately 10 km horizontal resolution, produced by continuous simulation from 1970 to 2100. In the version 4 dataset (FORP-NP10 version4), the atmospheric forcings for the FORP simulations were from two climate models from CMIP5, MIROC5 and MRI-CGCM3, with historical (1981-2005), RCP2.6 (2006-2100), and RCP8.5 (2006-2100) scenarios. In addition, a historical simulation from 1981 to 2015 using a forcing of an atmospheric reanalysis, the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55), was included.