WGOMD

Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) were proposed by the WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) as a venue for comparing global ocean-sea ice models run under a common prescribed atmospheric state, with boundary fluxes computed via the same bulk formulae. CORE simulations complement the coupled climate and earth system models run for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Efforts across a broad community of modelling groups have produced CORE simulations (CORE-II) using 60 years (1948–2007) of inter-annual forcing, with details of the protocol and participating groups available from the WGOMD web site: http://www.clivar.org/wgomd/core/core-2