Earth System Model

Climate models have become more complex over the years and are now called Earth System Models (ESMs). Unfortunately, their names are made of acronyms difficult to remember, including for climate scientists. Hence, we chose to identify each ESM with its organisation, with a letter in parentheses in case of several model versions.

See also: CMIP and other experiments, the projects in which these models are run, and the ISIMIP project, which selected the five models we use.