Arctic Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ARC-MIP) at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC

An international intercomparison of 5 regional model simulations in
the Arctic will be conducted using a common forcing dataset. The
Arctic Modeling Intercomparison Project (ARC-MIP) will focus on the
SHEBA year. The rationale for selecting this period is that high
quality data are available from SHEBA, the ARM Barrow site, aircraft
observations and several satellite remote sensing. In addition,
extensive data are available from the Mackenzie GEWEX Study (MAGS), a
series of large-scale hydrological and related atmospheric and
land-atmosphere studies to be conducted within the Mackenzie Basin in
Canada. Each of the modeling groups will focus on a different aspect
of the model intercomparison, but there are some broader goals which
can be addressed by this project including better understanding of
processes and process parameterizations, model uncertainty and global
climate model circulation simulations. For more information, please
see "http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/projs?ARC-MIP".