| IPCC |
|---|
| Assessment reports: |
| First (1990) |
| 1992 sup. |
| Second (1995) |
| Third (2001) |
| Fourth (2007) |
| Fifth (2014) |
| UNFCCC | WMO | UNEP |
The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will be the fifth in a series of such reports. The IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects and options for adaptation and mitigation.
The IPCC is currently starting to outline its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which will be finalized in 2014. As it has been the case in the past, the outline of the AR5 will be developed through a scoping process which involves climate change experts from all relevant disciplines and users of IPCC reports, in particular representatives from governments. As a first step, experts, governments and organizations involved in the Fourth Assessment Report have been asked to submit comments and observations in writing. These submissions are currently being analysed by members of the Bureau. Further input from governments and organizations is expected at the 30th Session of the IPCC (21-23 April 2009, Antalya, Turkey). The scoping meeting of experts to define the outline of the AR5 is scheduled for 13-17 July 2009.[1]
It is assumed that the Next Generation Earth System Models[2][3] (e.g. HadGEM2[4]) will produce hundreds of terabytes to perhaps tens of petabytes of climate model data for analysis.[5]
Climate model simulations in support of AR5 will use a different approach to account for increasing greenhouse gas concentrations than in the previous report. Instead of the scenarios from the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios the models are performing simulations for various Representative Concentration Pathways.
References
- ^ IPCC website
- ^ Earth System Models: The Next Generation
- ^ Building a Next-Generation Community Ice Sheet Model
- ^ Collins, William; et al. (2009). "The Met Office Hadley Centre next generation Earth System Model". IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 6: 052007. doi:.
- ^ Climate model data management - future challenges
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