GFDL Contributions:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 6th Assessment Report
CONTRIBUTORS
Eleven GFDL scientists were among the 234 international experts contributing to the Working Group I report. Our scientists contributed to chapters covering a broad range of topics, including sea level change, extreme events, future global climate, regional impact and risk assessment, global carbon, short-lived climate forcers, and the earth’s energy budget. Another 10 GFDL scientists served as expert reviewers of the report.
MODELS AND DATA
GFDL has had a central role in each assessment of the IPCC since 1990, when their first report was issued. AR6 relied on 5 GFDL models for climate assessments. GFDL used considerable computational power in support of the report, contributing more than 168 TB of data from experiments. The climate science community downloaded nearly 200 TB of this data, roughly equivalent to streaming 1,700,000 hours of music.