IITM Earth System
Model
Developing a state-of-the-art climate model from India
suitable for long-term climate studies is a critical
requirement in order to generate reliable future
projections of the global and regional climate, and
particularly the Indian monsoon rainfall. The CCCR-IITM has
developed an Earth System Model, IITM-ESM by incorporating
earth system components in the Climate Forecast System
(CFS) from National Center for Environmental Prediction
(NCEP, USA), and thereby transforming the CFS seasonal
prediction model to a long-term climate model. More details
are presented in “IITM Earth System Model:
Transformation of a Seasonal Prediction Model to a Long
Term Climate Model”, Swapna et al., BAMS, 2015.