Earth System Models (ESM) are important tools that allow us to understand and quantify the physical, chemical & biological mechanisms governing the rates of change of elements of the Earth System, comprising of the atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere and biosphere (terrestrial and marine) and related components. ESMs are essentially coupled numerical models which incorporate processes within and across the different Earth system components and are expressed as set of mathematical equations. ESMs are useful for enhancing our fundamental understanding of the climate system, its multi-scale variability, global and regional climatic phenomena and making projections of future climate change. In this chapter, we briefly describe the salient aspects of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology ESM (IITM ESM), that has been developed recently at the IITM, Pune, India, for investigating long-term climate variability and change with focus on the South Asian monsoon.
@article{arxiv.2101.03410,
title = {The IITM Earth System Model (IITM ESM)},
author = {R. Krishnan and P. Swapna and Ayantika Dey Choudhury and Sandeep Narayansetti and A. G. Prajeesh and Manmeet Singh and Aditi Modi and Roxy Mathew and Ramesh Vellore and J. Jyoti and T. P. Sabin and J. Sanjay and Sandip Ingle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03410},
year = {2021}
}