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The Global/Regional Integrated Model System (GRIMs): an Update and Seasonal Evaluation

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The Global/Regional Integrated Model system (GRIMs) is upgraded to version 4.0, with the advancement of the moisture advection scheme and physics package, focusing on the global model program (GMP) for seasonal simulation and climate studies. Compared to the original version 3.1, which was frozen in 2013, the new version shows no Gibbs phenomenon in the moisture and tracer fields by implementing the semi-Lagrangian advection scheme with a better computational efficiency at higher resolution. The performance of the seasonal ensemble simulation (June–August 2017 and December 2016–February 2017) is significantly improved by new physics and ancillary data. The advancement is largest in the stratosphere, where the cold bias is dramatically reduced and the wind bias of the polar jets is alleviated, especially for the winter hemisphere. Noticeable improvements are also found in tropospheric zonal mean circulation, eddy transport, precipitation, and surface air temperature. This allows GRIMs version 4.0 to be used not only for long-term climate simulations, but also for subseasonal-to-seasonal climate prediction.

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This work was supported by Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) through “Climate Change R&D Project for New Climate Regime”, funded by Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) (2022003560004). Dr. Ji-Young Han and Ji-Young Oh implemented the KSAS scheme and provided CAMS-based climatological ozone data, respectively.

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  1. Numerical Modeling Group, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, South Korea

    Myung-Seo Koo

  2. Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

    Kanghyun Song

  3. Center for Climate/Environment Change Prediction Research, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

    Jung-Eun Esther Kim

  4. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, 08826, Seoul, South Korea

    Seok-Woo Son & Rokjin J. Park

  5. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Kongju National University, Kongju, South Korea

    Eun-Chul Chang

  6. Department of Oceanography, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

    Jee-Hoon Jeong

  7. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

    Hyungjun Kim

  8. Division of Science Education, Institute of Fusion Science, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea

    Byung-Kwon Moon

  9. Department of Marine Sciences and Convergent Technology, Hanyang University, ERICA, Ansan, South Korea

    Sang-Wook Yeh

  10. Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

    Changhyun Yoo

  11. NOAA/ESRL and CSU/CERES, Boulder, CO, USA

    Song-You Hong

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Koo, MS., Song, K., Kim, JE.E. et al. The Global/Regional Integrated Model System (GRIMs): an Update and Seasonal Evaluation. Asia-Pac J Atmos Sci 59, 113–132 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13143-022-00297-y

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