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IITM-ESM contributions to the forthcoming CMIP6
In a recent version of IITM- ESM, further improvements are incorporated in order to obtain a radiatively-balanced global climate modeling framework, which is required for predicting long-term climate change. Additionally, radiative effects of natural and anthropogenic aerosols are incorporated by specifying time-varying 3-dimensional fields of aerosol optical properties. The IITM- ESM also show improvements in simulating sea ice distribution, ocean biogeochemistry and mean precipitation over Asian monsoon region. The IITM-ESM marks a successful climate modeling development for contributing to the forthcoming CMIP6 with DECK, historic and GMMIP simulations, a first from India

Global mean features from 300 year pre-industrial control simulation	Incorporation of CMIP6 Forcing in IITM-ESM	Energy Balance & Thermohaline circulation

Improved simulation of precipitation	Time varying forcings in IITM-ESM	Pre-industrial Control Simulations