Skip to content

Norwegian Earth System Model

Subscribe to NorESM users mailing list

Rosie Fisher from CICERO shows the impact of climate change on vegetation in the NorESM land component; CLM-FATES.

The Path to NorESM2.5

Developing the next generation of NorESM requires a substantial community effort. NorESM has been a major contributor to the Coupled ...

Read More
Global annual mean surface (2m) air temperature in fully-coupled simulations.

New NorESM release available!

We are happy to announce the release of the new NorESM2.1 version! NorESM2.1 is a technical development version of NorESM2 ...

Read More

Nationally coordinated projects in support of NorESM

Code Access

Data Access

Documentations

NorESM2

Key Experiments

Discussion Forum

A climate model solves mathematically formulated natural laws on a three-dimensional grid. The climate model divides the soil system into components (atmosphere, sea, sea ice, land with vegetation, etc.) that interact through transmission of energy, motion and moisture. When the climate model also includes advanced interactive atmosphere chemistry and biogeochemical cycles (such as the carbon cycle), it is called an earth system model. 

The Norwegian Earth System Model NorESM has been developed since 2007 and has been an important tool for Norwegian climate researchers in the study of the past, present and future climate. NorESM has also contributed to climate simulation that has been used in research assessed in the IPCC’s fifth main report.