GSWP-2 Participating Models

(Baseline integrations submitted as of March 2005)

Green = models contribute fully to the multi-model analysis in as far as each reports all mandatory variables

Yellow = models do not contribute to the multi-model estimate of normalized soil wetness because of problems in defining a relevant soil wetness index within those schemes, but they do contribute to other variables

Red = simple and intermediate models that do not report all manditory fields, so are excluded from the multi-model analysis

Not all of the 13 green and yellow models necessarily contribute to the calculation of any particular variable.  See the data inclusion chart  for a list of which models contributed to which variables.

Name	Institute	Nation	Time step	Vertical Structure^1	Soil, Vegetation^2	Most Recent Reference(s)^5
CLM2-TOP	U. Texas	USA	1hE 5mS^4	10W 10T 5S	Sd Vd *	Bonan et al. (2002), Niu and Yang (2003)
HY-SSiB	GSFC	USA	30m	3W 2T 2S	Sd Vs	Mocko and Sud (2001)
ISBA	Météo France / CNRM	France	5m	3W 2T 1S	Sd Vi	Etchevers et al. (2001)
Mosaic	NASA / GSFC / HSB	USA	30m	3W 2T 1S	Sg Vs	Koster and Suarez (1992)
MOSES2	Met Office	UK	30m	4W 4T 1S	Sd Vd	Cox et al. (1999), Essery et al. (2003)
NOAH	NOAA / NCEP / EMC	USA	15m	4W 4T 1S	Sg Vd	Ek et al. (2003)
NSIPP-Catchment	NASA / GSFC / GMAO	USA	20m	3W 6T 3S	Sg Vs *	Koster et al. (2000), Ducharne et al (2000)
SiBUC	Kyoto U.	Japan	1h	3W 2T 1S	Sg Vd	online
SSiBCOLA	IGES / COLA	USA	30m	6W 6T 1S	Sg Vs	Dirmeyer and Zeng (1999)
SWAP	Russian Academy of Sciences / IWP	Russia	3h	2W 1T 1S	Sg Vi *	Gusev and Nasonova (2003)
VISA	U. Texas	USA	3hE 5mS^4	10W 10T 5S	Sd Vd *	Yang and Niu (2003), Niu and Yang (2003)
LaD	NOAA / GFDL	USA	30m	1W 18T 1S	Sd Vs	Milly and Shmakin (2002a,b)
ORCHIDEE	IPSL	France	1h	4W 7T 1S	Sd Vd *	Krinner et al. (2005)
Sland	U. Maryland	USA	20m	1W 2T 0S	Sd Vdyn^3	Zeng et al. (2005)
BucketIIS	U. Tokyo	Japan	3h	1W 1T 1S	n/a	Manabe (1969)

¹Vertical structure shows soil layers for water (W) and temperature (T), and the maximum number of snow layers (S).

²Soil data sets are either supplied by GSWP-2 (g) or the model’s default (d). For vegetation distributions, GSWP-2 supplied datasets include IGBP (i) and SiB (s) categories;

³Sland has dynamic vegetation.

⁴Two models have different time steps for energy (E) and soil (S).

⁵For full references, please see the Technical Report included on the DVD.

* These LSSs have recharge into the bottom of the soil column from the water table, and so do not close the water budget with the LSS.