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Aqua-Planet Experiment Project

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About this website

This page summarizes the information on the APE project and the aqua-planet AGCM experiments conducted in parallel by the members of GFD Dennou Club.

The Aqua-Planet Experiment Project

• Information on "APE", the coordinated Aqua-Planet Experiment Project, proposed by Neale and Hosikins (2000a)
  • Project top page (Reading University)

  • The proposal etc.
  • APE Proposal Paper : Neale and Hoskins (2000)
  • The Proposal to CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Eperimentation (WGNE)
  • Context and Aims of APE [Blackburn and Hoskins (2013) in JMSJ APE Special Issue ]
  • Participating Groups
  • Archive of the Numerical Results
    • Standard diagnostic files for all participating models (link to Reading University)
    • Additional Transient Data ("agu_tr_request") for a limitted number of participating models is availabel on request. (Please e-mail to ape-ml"at"gfd-dennou.org. )

Publication on the APE

• Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Vol.91A, (2013)
  Special Issue on the Aqua-Planet Experiment Project (APE) and Related Researches
  • Link to E-Journal of the Special Issue at JMSJ Web Page
  • List of Papers
  • Overview Papers: Control SST [ PDF ], Response to Changed SST Profile [ PDF ], Equatorial Disturbances [ PDF ], Response to Equatorial SST Anomaly [ PDF ]
• "Official" collection of figures : The APE-Atlas. (NCAR Technical Note)
• Related Publications

The "APE" Workshop

• The 2nd APE Workshop 13-15 November, 2007 at the Chiba Institute for Science, Choshi, Chiba, Japan
• The 1st Workshop in 20-22 April 2005 at Reading, UK
• Presentations from AGUforAPE

Collection of Figures for aqua-planet AGCM experiments

• Experiments conducted with the specifications of the "APE" Project
  • "Official" collection of figures : The APE-Atlas. (NCAR Technical Note)
  • Comparison of Results for Participating Models of the APE Project
  • Resolution dependence etc. examined by AGU for APE (with AFES)
  • Supplementary Experimentsusing AGCM5
• Other Experiments
  • Sensitivity to varied vertical profile of radiative cooling rates using AGCM5 (with SST etc. following Hosaka etal. (1998))
  • Wave-CISK experiments with spmodel

References and Links

• Reference
• Information about models of GFD Dennou Club
  • Dcmodel Projecrt
  • Description of AGCM5
  • SPMODEL: Hierarchical Spectral Models for GFD

Acknowledgements

Numerical experiments with AGCM5 were performed by using the supercomputer system (NEC SX series) at Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) of National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) .

Numerical experiments with AGU for APE were performed at the Earth Simulator of the Earth Simulator Center (ESC) of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).

The work conducted in Japan was supported by following MEXT KAKENHI Grants and JSPS funding.

• The joint GCOE program of Kobe university and Hokkaido University, "Foundation of International Center for Planetary Science" ( Center for Planetary Science )
• Grat-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 21340139 "Representation of precipitation structures in different models based on the Aqua-Planet Experiment Project", 2009-2011.
• Grat-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 12440123 "Examination of tropical precipitation activity and general circulation by use of ensemble aqua-planet experiments", 2000-2002.

Last Updated: Fri Nov 1 23:12:20 +0900 2013 (KN)

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