ECHAM

The ECHAM GCM has its original roots in global forecast models developed at ECMWF. This model has been modified for climate research, and its development continued to the current cycle ECHAM5.

ECHAM is a comprehensive general circulation model of the atmosphere. Depending on the configuration the model resolves the atmosphere up to 10 hPa (ECHAM) or up to 0.01 hPa (MAECHAM). The former model has been used extensively to study the climate of the troposphere, the latter allows to include also the middle atmosphere.

Documentation

  • ECHAM5/MAECHAM5
    • MPI Report No. 349: The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM5, Part I: Model description (PDF).
    • MPI Report No. 354: The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM5 Part II: Sensitivity of simulated climate to horizontal and vertical resolution (PDF).
    • The Journal of Climate special section "Climate models at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology" of August 2006 documents various aspects of ECHAM5 (more).
  • ECHAM4/MAECHAM4
    • MPI Report No. 218: The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM-4: Model description and simulation of present-day climate (PDF).
    • ECHAM4 description for AMIP