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The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) development and coordination is based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, USA. CCSM is a state-of-the-art global climate model consisting of four fundamental physical components: an atmosphere model, an ocean model, a land surface model, and a sea ice model. In addition, a coupler (or driver) is used to exchange boundary data between the components and to coordinate the time evolution of the physical models. CCSM is used to understand the Earth’s global climate system, to predict the effects of climate change, and to understand past climates. It is developed as a high performance computing application but is used on a wide variety of platforms.
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Vertenstein, M., Craig, A., Jacob, R. (2013). CCSM. In: Earth System Modelling - Volume 1. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36597-3_8
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