Status of ACCESS-ESM1.6 experiments

This table summarizes the current status of DECK and Fast Track experiments using ACCESS-ESM1.6.

Notes:

  • See Airtable - CMIP AR7 Fast Track experiment viewer (public) for experiment details
  • ‘Run status’ is given as NxM yr where N is the number of ensemble members that have been completed and M is the number of years required for the submission (some experiments may have run a few extra years).
  • Raw model output is available here: /g/data/p73/archive/CMIP7/ACCESS-ESM1-6/production in the directory listed under ‘p73 location’. Access to p73 can be requested through MyNCI.
Experiment Run status p73 location Cmorised Published
DECK
piControl 400+ yrs Ndep2-PI-CNP-concentrations, PI-CNP-concentrations
esm-piControl 300+ yrs Ndep2-PI-CNP-emissions
abrupt-4xCO2 1x300 yr abrupt-4xCO2
1pctCO2 1x150 yr 1pctCO2-01
amip
historical (1850-2021)
esm-hist (1850-2021)
piClim-Control
piClim-anthro
piClim-4xCO2
Assessment Fast Track
1pctCO2-bgc 1x150 yr 1pctCO2-bgc-01
1pctCO2-rad 1x150 yr 1pctCO2-rad-01
esm-flat10 Running esm-flat10
esm-flat10-cdr
esm-flat10-zec

Last update: 04/05/2026

Concentration-driven idealised simulations: global mean surface air temperature

The temperature anomaly is calculated as the difference from the mean of the first 100 years of the piControl simulation.

The control simulation (run under constant 1850 conditions) (black) shows stable global mean temperature as expected. Temperature increases rapidly (red) when atmospheric CO2 is instantaneously quadrupled. The temperature increase is approximately linear when CO2 is increased by 1% per year (blue). In the case where only the biogeochemistry is forced with the increasing CO2 (green), the temperature is close to that of the control run. In the case where only the radiation scheme is subject to the increasing CO2, the temperature increase is close to that of the standard 1pctCO2 case.

Figure updated 04/05/2026 to extend piControl

Concentration-driven idealised simulations: carbon fluxes
The figure shows the globally integrated carbon source (positive) or sink (negative) to the atmosphere from the land (thin lines) and ocean (thick lines). A 10-year running-mean is shown as the land fluxes have large interannual variability responding to interannual climate variability.

The control simulation (black) shows carbon fluxes that are close to zero as required. Land carbon fluxes are more variable than ocean carbon fluxes. When atmospheric CO2 is instantaneously quadrupled, both land and ocean take up carbon (red) with the ocean sink being stronger and lasting longer than the land sink. When CO2 is increased by 1% per year, both land and ocean initially respond by taking up carbon (blue) but the land sink reduces over time and becomes a source as temperature increases. The behaviour is similar when only the biogeochemistry is forced with the increasing CO2 (green) with both ocean and land showing slightly larger CO2 sinks. When only the radiation scheme is forced with increasing CO2 (magenta), the ocean carbon flux remains close to zero while the land shows a carbon source, driven by the temperature increase in this case.