Optimal High Resolution Earth System Models for Exploring Future Climate Changes

Project Information

OptimESM

Grant agreement ID: 101081193

DOI

10.3030/101081193

EC signature date 22 September 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 7 691 803,96

EU contribution

€ 7 691 803,96

Coordinated by

SVERIGES METEOROLOGISKA OCH HYDROLOGISKA INSTITUT
Sweden

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan

Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan prepared and distributed (tasks 7.1 and 7.7)

Terms of reference for OptimESM boards

Terms of reference for the EB, MB, EAB and ECS prepared and distributed (task 8.1)

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

First version of Data Management Plan prepared (task 8.3)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

emIAM v1.0: an emulator for Integrated Assessment Models using marginal abatement cost curves

Author(s): W. Xiong; W. Xiong; K. Tanaka; K. Tanaka; P. Ciais; D. J. A. Johansson; M. Lehtveer
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue 18, 2023, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/GMD-18-1575-2025

Nature Communications

Author(s): Anne Merfort; Jessica Strefler; Gabriel Abrahão; Nico Bauer; Tabea Dorndorf; Elmar Kriegler; Gunnar Luderer; Leon Merfort; Ottmar Edenhofer
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-60606-7

The impact of a weakened AMOC on European heatwaves

Author(s): Virna L Meccia, Claudia Simolo, Katinka Bellomo, Susanna Corti
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ADA3E7

Enhanced risk of hot extremes revealed by observation-constrained model projections

Author(s): Claudia Simolo; Susanna Corti
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6(165), 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02133-3

Testing GWP* to quantify non-CO2 contributions in the carbon budget framework in overshoot scenarios

Author(s): Mastropierro, Matteo; Tanaka, Katsumasa; Melnikova, Irina; Ciais, Philippe
Published in: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2025, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41612-025-00980-7

Environmental Research Letters

Author(s): Virna L Meccia, Claudia Simolo, Katinka Bellomo, Susanna Corti
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ADA3E7

Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections

Author(s): Sybren Drijfhout, Joran R Angevaare, Jennifer Mecking, René M van Westen, Stefan Rahmstorf
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ADFA3B

Negative social tipping dynamics resulting from and reinforcing Earth system destabilization

Author(s): Viktoria Spaiser, Sirkku Juhola, Sara M. Constantino, Weisi Guo, Tabitha Watson, Jana Sillmann, Alessandro Craparo, Ashleigh Basel, John T. Bruun, Krishna Krishnamurthy, Jürgen Scheffran, Patricia Pinho, Uche T. Okpara, Jonathan F. Donges, Avit Bhowmik, Taha Yasseri, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Graeme S. Cumming, Hugues Chenet, Florian Krampe, Jesse F. Abrams, James G. Dyke, Stefanie Rynders, Yevgeny Aksenov, Bryan M. Spears
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ESD-15-1179-2024

A Global Analysis of Historical and Future Changes in Mediterranean Climate‐Type Regions

Author(s): Diego Urdiales‐Flores; George Zittis; Panos Hadjinicolaou; Annalisa Cherchi; Andrea Alessandri; Nadav Peleg; Jos Lelieveld
Published in: International Journal of Climatology, Issue 44(15), 2024, ISSN 1097-0088
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/JOC.8655

Noise-shaped hysteresis cycles of the AMOC under increasing CO2 forcing

Author(s): Matteo Cini; Giuseppe Zappa; Francesco Ragone; Susanna Corti
Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 1089-7682
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0241503

No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability

Author(s): Laibao Liu; Rosie A. Fisher; Hervé Douville; Ryan S. Padrón; Alexis Berg; Jiafu Mao; Andrea Alessandri; Hyungjun Kim; Sonia I. Seneviratne
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000680809

Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?

Author(s): S. Loriani; A. Bartsch; E. Calamita; J. F. Donges; S. Hebden; M. Hirota; A. Landolfi; T. Nagler; B. Sakschewski; A. Staal; J. Verbesselt; R. Winkelmann; R. Wood; N. Wunderling
Published in: Surveys in Geophysics, Issue 46, 327–374, 2025, ISSN 1573-0956
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10712-024-09866-4

Atmosphere

Author(s): Morgan Sparey; Mark S. Williamson; Peter M. Cox
Published in: Atmosphere, Issue 15(6), 2024, ISSN 2073-4433
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ATMOS15060700

Carbon cycle and climate feedback under CO₂ and non-CO₂ overshoot pathways

Author(s): I. Melnikova; I. Melnikova; P. Ciais; K. Tanaka; K. Tanaka; H. Shiogama; K. Tachiiri; K. Tachiiri; T. Yokohata; O. Boucher
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, 2024, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/ESD-16-257-2025

Physical inconsistencies in the representation of the ocean heat-carbon nexus in simple climate models

Author(s): Séférian, Roland; Bossy, Thomas; Gasser, Thomas; Nichols, Zebedee; Dorheim, Kalyn; Su, Xuanming; Tsutsui, Junichi; Santana-Falcón, Yeray
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-024-01464-X

Multi-centennial evolution of the climate response and deep-ocean heat uptake in a set of abrupt stabilization scenarios with EC-Earth3

Author(s): Federico Fabiano, Paolo Davini, Virna L. Meccia, Giuseppe Zappa, Alessio Bellucci, Valerio Lembo, Katinka Bellomo, and Susanna Corti
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/esd-15-527-2024

Deep Learning for Bias‐Correcting CMIP6‐Class Earth System Models

Author(s): Philipp Hess; Stefan Lange; Christof Schötz; Niklas Boers
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 11, 10, 2023, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.01253

Testing the assumptions in emergent constraints: Why does the 'Emergent constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity from global temperature variability' work for CMIP5 and not CMIP6?

Author(s): M. S. Williamson; M. S. Williamson; P. M. Cox; P. M. Cox; C. Huntingford; F. J. M. M. Nijsse; F. J. M. M. Nijsse
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 15(4), 2023, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Göttingen-Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2023-1093

Estimating the gain of increasing the ensemble size from analytical considerations

Author(s): Bo Christiansen
Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2024, ISSN 1477-870X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/QJ.4815

Cooler Arctic surface temperatures simulated by climate models are closer to satellite-based data than the ERA5 reanalysis

Author(s): Tian Tian, Shuting Yang, Jacob Lorentsen Høyer, Pia Nielsen-Englyst & Suman Singh
Published in: Communications earth & environment, Issue 5, 111, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01276-z.

Climate tipping point interactions and cascades: A review

Author(s): N. Wunderling; N. Wunderling; N. Wunderling; A. S. von der Heydt; A. S. von der Heydt; Y. Aksenov; S. Barker; R. Bastiaansen; R. Bastiaansen; V. Brovkin; M. Brunetti; V. Couplet; T. Kleinen; C. H. Lear; J. Lohmann; R. M. Roman-Cuesta; S. Sinet; S. Sinet; D. Swingedouw; R. Winkelmann; R. Winkelmann; P. Anand; J. Barichivich; J. Barichivich; S. Bathiany; S. Bathiany; M. Baudena; M. Baudena; M. Baudena; J. T. Bruun; C. M. Chiessi; H. K. Coxall; H. K. Coxall; D. Docquier; J. F. Donges; J. F. Donges; J. F. Donges; S. K. J. Falkena; A. K. Klose; A. K. Klose; D. Obura; J. Rocha; J. Rocha; S. Rynders; N. J. Steinert; N. J. Steinert; M. Willeit
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 15(1), 2023, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/ESD-15-41-2024

flat10MIP: An emissions-driven experiment to diagnose the climate response to positive, zero, and negative CO2 emissions

Author(s): Benjamin Mark Sanderson; Victor Brovkin; Rosie Fisher; David Hohn; Tatiana Ilyina; Chris Jones; Torben Koenigk; Charles Koven; Hongmei Li; David Lawrence; Peter Lawrence; Spencer Liddicoat; Andrew Macdougall; Nadine Mengis; Zebedee Nicholls; Eleanor O'Rourke; Anastasia Romanou; Marit Sandstad; Jörg Schwinger; Roland Seferian; Lori Sentman; Isla Simpson; Chris Smith; Norman Steinert; Abigail Swann; Jerry Tjiputra; Tilo Ziehn
Published in: Geoscientific Model Development, Issue 18(17), 2025, ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/GMD-18-5699-2025

Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming

Author(s): Franco Salerno, Nicolas Guyennon, Kun Yang, Thomas E. Shaw, Changgui Lin, Nicola Colombo, Emanuele Romano, Stephan Gruber, Tobias Bolch, Andrea Alessandri, Paolo Cristofanelli, Davide Putero, Guglielmina Diolaiuti, Gianni Tartari, Gianpietro Verza, Sudeep
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 16, 2023, ISSN 1752-0908
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y

Regional Impacts Poorly Constrained by Climate Sensitivity

Author(s): Swaminathan, Ranjini; Schewe, Jacob; Walton, Jeremy; Zimmermann, Klaus; Jones, Colin G.; Betts, Richard A.; Burton, Chantelle; Jones, Chris D.; Mengel, Matthias; Reyer, Christopher P. O.; Turner, Andrew G.; Weigel, Katja
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 12(12), 2024, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1029/2024EF004901

Planetary boundaries under a land-based climate change mitigation scenario with a food demand transformation: a modelling study

Author(s): Felicitas D Beier, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Jens Heinke, Gabriel Abrahao, Patrick von Jeetze, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Michael Crawford, Florian Humpenöder, Leon Merfort, Isabelle Weindl, Mario Herrero, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Johan Rockström, Marina Sundiang, Sofie te Wierik, Anna Norberg, David Klein, Christoph Müller, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Alexander Popp
Published in: The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025, ISSN 2542-5196
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00087-7

Abrupt Changes in the Timing and Magnitude of the North Atlantic Bloom Over the 21st Century

Author(s): Kelly, Stephen; Popova, Ekaterina; Yool, Andrew; Jebri, Fatma; Oliver, Sophy; Srokosz, Meric
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 130, 2024, ISSN 2169-9291
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2024JC022284

Bringing it all together: science priorities for improved understanding of Earth system change and to support international climate policy

Author(s): C. G. Jones; F. Adloff; B. B. B. Booth; P. M. Cox; V. Eyring; V. Eyring; P. Friedlingstein; P. Friedlingstein; K. Frieler; H. T. Hewitt; H. A. Jeffery; S. Joussaume; T. Koenigk; T. Koenigk; B. N. Lawrence; E. O'Rourke; M. J. Roberts; B. M. Sanderson; R. Séférian; S. Somot; P. L. Vidale; D. van Vuuren; D. van Vuuren; M. Acosta; M. Bentsen; M. Bentsen; R. Bernardello; R. Betts; R. Betts; E. Blockley; J. Boé; T. Bracegirdle; P. Braconnot; V. Brovkin; C. Buontempo; F. Doblas-Reyes; F. Doblas-Reyes; M. Donat; I. Epicoco; I. Epicoco; P. Falloon; P. Falloon; S. Fiore; T. Frölicher; T. Frölicher; N. S. Fučkar; N. S. Fučkar; M. J. Gidden; H. F. Goessling; R. G. Graversen; S. Gualdi; J. M. Gutiérrez; T. Ilyina; T. Ilyina; T. Ilyina; D. Jacob; C. D. Jones; C. D. Jones; M. Juckes; M. Juckes; E. Kendon; E. Kendon; E. Kjellström; R. Knutti; J. Lowe; J. Lowe; M. Mizielinski; P. Nassisi; M. Obersteiner; P. Regnier; R. Roehrig; D. Salas y Mélia; C.-F. Schleussner; M. Schulz; E. Scoccimarro; L. Terray; H. Thiemann; R. A. Wood; S. Yang; S. Zaehle
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, Issue 15(5), 2024, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus
DOI: 10.18452/29767

Brief communication: Sensitivity of Antarctic ice shelf melting to ocean warming across basal melt models

Author(s): E. Lambert; C. Burgard; C. Burgard
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2024-2358

Bringing it all together: Science and modelling priorities to support international climate policy

Author(s): Colin Gareth Jones; Fanny Adloff; Ben Booth; Peter Cox; Veronika Eyring; Pierre Friedlingstein; Katja Frieler; Helene Hewitt; Hazel Jeffery; Sylvie Joussaume; Torben Koenigk; Bryan N. Lawrence; Eleanor O'Rourke; Malcolm Roberts; Benjamin Sanderson; Roland Séférian; Samuel Somot; Pier-Luigi Vidale; Detlef van Vuuren; Mario Acosta; Mats Bentsen; Raffaele Bernardello; Richard Betts; Ed Blockley; Julien Boé; Tom Bracegirdle; Pascale Braconnot; Victor Brovkin; Carlo Buontempo; Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes; Markus G. Donat; Italo Epicoco; Pete Falloon; Sandro Fiore; Thomas Froelicher; Neven Fuckar; Matthew Gidden; Helge Goessling; Rune Grand Graversen; Silvio Gualdi; Jose Manuel Gutiérrez; Tatiana Ilyina; Daniela Jacob; Chris Jones; Martin Juckes; Elizabeth Kendon; Erik Kjellström; Reto Knutti; Jason A. Lowe; Matthew Mizielinski; Paola Nassisi; Michael Obersteiner; Pierre Regnier; Romain Roehrig; David Salas y Melia; Carl-Friedrich Schleussner; Michael Schulz; Enrico Scoccimarro; Laurent Terray; Hannes Thiemann; Richard Wood; Shuting Yang; Sönke Zaehle
Published in: Earth System Dynamics, 2024, ISSN 2190-4987
Publisher: Göttingen Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-2024-453

Simulating AMOC tipping driven by internal climate variability with a rare event algorithm

Author(s): Cini M, Zappa G, Ragone F, and Corti S
Published in: npj Clim Atmos Sci, Issue 7, 31, 2024, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00568-7

Recent and near-term future changes in impacts-relevant seasonal hydroclimate in the world's Mediterranean climate regions

Author(s): Richard Seager; Yutian Wu; Annalisa Cherchi; Isla R. Simpson; Timothy J. Osborn; Yochanan Kushnir; Jelena Lukovic; Haibo Liu; Jennifer Nakamura
Published in: International Journal of Climatology, 2024, ISSN 1097-0088
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/JOC.8551

Separating CO2 emission from removal targets comes with limited cost impacts

Author(s): Anne Merfort, Jessica Strefler, Gabriel Abrahão, Nico Bauer, Tabea Dorndorf, Elmar Kriegler, Gunnar Luderer, Leon Merfort, Ottmar Edenhofer
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-60606-7