3D climate simulations of Earth-like planets with a range of atmospheric composition, radiative transfer, ocean, and resolution configurations, using the new version of ROCKE-3D
- 1Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- 2NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
- 3Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- 4NASA Astrobiology Institute Virtual Planetary Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA
Understanding the climate of terrestrial planetary atmospheres has been increasingly the focus of research worldwide, in light of the increasing amount of rocky planet discoveries orbiting other stars in or near their habitable zone. Here we present simulations with the new version of the 3D climate model ROCKE-3D, whose version 2.0 will soon become publicly available. A wide range of configurations will be supported, compared to a handful ones in its predecessor, version 1.0 (Way et al., 2017). These include two model resolutions (4x5 and 2x2.5), two radiation schemes (GISS and SOCRATES), three atmospheric configurations (Earth-like, Earth-like without O3 and aerosols, and N2-dominated), and three ocean setups (prescribed sea-surface temperatures and ice cover, q-flux, and dynamic). Simulations of all different configuration combinations have been performed and will become available for use by the community. Key results will be presented across those configurations, together of the role of the structural uncertainty in model setup in the resulting climate calculated by the model.
How to cite: Tsigaridis, K., Del Genio, A. D., Aleinov, I., Wolf, E. T., Kelley, M., Way, M. J., Sohl, L. E., and Ruedy, R. A.: 3D climate simulations of Earth-like planets with a range of atmospheric composition, radiative transfer, ocean, and resolution configurations, using the new version of ROCKE-3D, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-8892, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8892, 2020