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Ocean Model Intercomparison Project
by World Climate Research Programme (Scientific community)
The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) provides a framework for evaluating, understanding, and improving ocean, sea-ice, and biogeochemical components of climate and earth system models that contribute to Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6).

OMIP provides standard protocols and diagnostics for ocean models, while offering a forum and a technical framework to promote their common assessment and improvement. Simulated results from OMIP will be exploited to contribute to its effort to study basic CMIP6 science questions on the origins and consequences of systematic model biases.OMIP will compare solutions of the same ocean models when forced with reanalysis data versus when integrated within fully coupled Earth System Models.

OMIP contributes to the Grand Challenges of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) by providing fundamental information needed to improve estimates of regional sea-level change, near-term climate prediction, carbon feedbacks in the climate system, as well as changes in ocean carbon uptake and storage, acidification, deoxygenation, and marine productivity.
Progress reports
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
Type of commitment
  • Scientific research and cooperation to address ocean acidification knowledge gaps
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
Type of commitment
  • Scientific, socioeconomic and interdisciplinary research
  • Research capacity development
  • Data access and sharing
  • Training and professional development
  • Scientific cooperation
01/2019
Data from simulations made available to the international community
07/2017
Simulation Protocols Published
07/2018
Ocean model simulations forced by observational analyses completed
Other, please specify
Funded component of the EU H2020 project CRESCENDO (protocols and OMIP analysis)
Staff / Technical expertise
Voluntary contributions from leading international ocean scientists
Basic information
Time-frame: 01/2016 - 12/2025
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Partners
LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, France Meteorology Dept., Penn. State University, USA LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France PMEL/NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA NCAR, USA Marine Chem. & Geochem., WHOI, USA NOAA GFDL, USA Physics, Imperial College, UK Climate and Environmental Physics, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland Institut fuer Umweltphysik, Univ. Heidelberg, Germany CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, USA Max Planck Inst. for Meteorology, Germany Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography Dept., Univ. Liege, Belgium GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany Columbia Univ., USA NASA-Goddard, USA Alfred Wegener Inst., Bremerhaven, Germany EOES, Univ. of Liverpool, UK National Oceanographic Centre, UK PCMDI, LLNL, USA COAPS, Florida State Univ., USA Rutgers Univ., USA Geophysical Institute, Univ. Bergen, Norway DEEPS, Brown Univ., USA Met Office Hadley Centre, UK Inst. Comput. Engineering and Science, Univ. Texas Austin, USA Met Office Hadley Centre, UK New York Univ., USA JAMSTEC, Japan CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy University of New South Wales, Australia Universit Paris Saclay, France Abdus Salam Institute for Theoretical Physics, Italy First Inst. of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale, IFREMER, France MRI, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Univ. Reading, UK
Ocean Basins
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Global
  • Indian Ocean
  • North Atlantic
  • North Pacific
  • South Atlantic
  • South Pacific
  • Southern Ocean
Beneficiary countries
Other beneficaries
All countries, particularly those with coastlines, interested in the ocean and how it will change during the 21st century.
Contact information
Dr. Mike Sparrow , Officer in Charge, World Climate Research Programme, WMO Polar Focal Point, msparrow@wmo.int, +41 22 730 8486
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