1. Graphical Representation of Climate Model Architecture Kaitlin Alexander, University of Manitoba Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto

2. Intercomparison Projects CMIP5 PMIP3 GeoMIP Architecture?

3. GCMs EMICs COSMOS 1.2.1 Model E HadGEM3 CESM 1.0.2 GFDL CM 2.1 IPSL CM5A UVic ESCM 2.9

4. atmosphere ocean coupler land sea ice land ice sediment fluxes from atmosphere fluxes from ocean …

5. IPSL CM5A

6. 2-Sided Models COSMOS

7. Star-Shaped Models CESM

8. Atmosphere- Dominated Models HadGEM3

9. Ocean- Dominated Models UVic

10. Large Land Components Model E

11. CESM COSMOS EncapsulatedIntegrated Sea Ice

12. Sea Ice Interface GFDL

13. Problems Code not pre-processed Sorting into components PowerPoint

14. HadGEM2-ES u_model um_shell atm_step ukca_main1 ocn_step ice_ctl

15. HadGEM2-ES

16. Going forward 8-9 models 2-3 EMICs AR5 configurations

17. Acknowledgements Scientists who helped out: Gavin Schmidt (NASA GISS) Tim Johns (Hadley Centre) Gary Strand (NCAR) Arnaud Caubel, Marie-Alice Foujols, Anne Cozic (IPSL) Reinhard Budich (MPI-Met) Michael Eby (UVic) Funded by NSERC and the Centre for Global Change Science at the University of Toronto.

18. Questions? If you want to take part, we’d love to analyse your model! Kaitlin Alexander kaitlin.a.alexander@gmail.com