The collaborative effort of researchers from different divisions of the IESP Institute is the foundation for the development and advancement of the CMCC Global Climate Model (CMCC-CM).

In the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), the CMCC-CM2 version of the model was used to complete a set of climate experiments encompassing both low and high resolution global configurations, respectively described in Cherchi et al. (2019) and Scoccimarro et al. (2022). This coupled modelling system primarily relies on the integration of four components: atmosphere (CAM5.4), ocean (NEMO3.6), sea-ice (CICE4), and land surface (CLM4.5). Its development was partly supported by the EU H2020 projects CRESCENDO (G.A. 779366) and PRIMAVERA (G.A. 641727).

The former version named CMCC-CM (Scoccimarro et al., 2011) was used to realize numerical experiments of the past and future climate under the CMIP5 initiative. This coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model was developed starting from the Scale Interaction Experiment SINTEX-G model (Gualdi et al. 2008) and it principally relied on the coupling between the ECHAM5 atmospheric model and the OPA 8.2 and LIM2 for ocean and sea ice.

References:

• Cherchi, A., Fogli, P. G., Lovato, T., Peano, D., Iovino, D., Gualdi, S., Masina, S., Scoccimarro, E., Materia, S., Bellucci, Navarra, A. (2019). Global Mean Climate and Main Patterns of Variability in the CMCC‐CM2 Coupled Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(1), 185-209.
• Scoccimarro, E., Peano, D., Gualdi, S., Bellucci, A., Lovato, T., Fogli, P. G., & Navarra, A. (2022). Extreme events representation in CMCC-CM2 standard and high-resolution general circulation models. Geoscientific Model Development, 15(4), 1841-1854.
• Scoccimarro E., S. Gualdi, A. Bellucci, A. Sanna, P.G. Fogli, E. Manzini, M. Vichi, P. Oddo, and A. Navarra, 2011: Effects of Tropical Cyclones on Ocean Heat Transport in a High Resolution Coupled General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate, 24, 4368-4384.
• Gualdi, S., E. Scoccimarro, and A. Navarra, 2008: Changes in tropical cyclone activity due to global warming: Results from a high-resolution coupled general circulation model. J. Climate, 21, 5204–5228