BAMOS Vol 30 No. 2 2017 | Page 28

28 BAMOS June 2017 Research Corner with Damien Irving A vision for CMIP6 in Australia Most climate researchers would be well aware that phase 6 of the Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) is now underway. The experiments have been designed, the modelling groups are gearing up to run them, and data should begin to come online sometime next year (see this special issue of Geoscientific Model Development for project details). As is always the case with a new iteration of CMIP, this one is going to be bigger and better than the last. By better I mean cooler experiments and imp