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Understanding the internal and externally forced dynamics of the climate system has been the major research goal of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) since its foundation. Numerical models are considered as essential to test our knowledge on the functioning of the climate system as a whole or in parts, and to explore consequences of changed boundary conditions. Therefore, a palette of numerical models for atmosphere, ocean, and land has been developed and used in the global or regional context. This special issue now presents the most recent set of global models developed at the MPI-M, used here to study various aspects in the earth system. The development of these models often includes contributions from guest scientists or other institutions, which we want to acknowledge explicitly. Sufficiently tested models are distributed to the community (see http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/wissenschaft/modelle/model-distribution. html).
The atmospheric general circulation model ECHAM5 is the latest model cycle of the ECHAM series. ECHAM5 is used in...