CCCma (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis) is part of the Climate Research Division of
Environment Canada and is located at the
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...
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Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The ...
. Its purpose is to develop and apply
climate models
Numerical climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the important drivers of climate, including atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the c ...
to improve understanding of
climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...
and make quantitative projections of future climate in Canada and globally. Its seasonal forecasting system provides climate forecasts over Canada on timescales of months to years.
Current models
* CGCM3 The third generation coupled global climate model
* CGCM4 The fourth generation coupled global climate model
* CanESM2 The second generation Canadian Earth System Model
* CanESM5 The Canadian Earth System Model version 5
[Swart et al. (2019)]
* CanRCM The Canadian Regional Climate Model
[Scinocca et al. (2016)]
See also
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR ) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundatio ...
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Earth Simulator
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HadCM3
HadCM3 (abbreviation for ''Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3'') is a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) developed at the Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom. It was one of the major models used in the IPCC Third Asse ...
- explanation of an AOGCM
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EdGCM - an educational version of a GCM
Notes
References
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External links
www.cccma.ec.gc.caofficial website
* Dimitri Lascaris. (December 10, 2019
New Climate Model Predicts Alarming Levels of Global Heating Retrieved December 10, 2019
Climate modeling
Climate change in Canada
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