• CMIP and other experiments

  CMIP and CORDEX Climate projections are elaborated by international collaborations between research organisations that are referred to as projects or experiments. The major ones are: CMIP6, which stands for Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6, which is the basis of the upcoming in 2021 sixth assessment report of the IPCC. CMIP5 (https://www.wcrp-climateFew readers

• Representative Concentration Pathways

  Representative Concentration Pathways Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) are four greenhouse gas concentration trajectories adopted by the IPCC in its fifth assessment report. They describe four possible climate futures depending on the quantity of greenhouse gases we will emit in the future. The four RCPs (RCP 2.6, 4.5, 6.0, and 8.5) are named after a possible rangeFew readers

• Earth System Model

  Earth System Model Climate models have become more complex over the years and are now called Earth System Models (ESMs). Unfortunately, their names are made of acronyms difficult to remember, including for climate scientists. Hence, we chose to identify each ESM with its Organization, with a letter in parenthesis in case of several model versions.Few readers