The University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model (UVic ESCM) consists of 
a vertically integrated, energy/moisture balance, atmospheric model with 
dynamic feedbacks, coupled to the MOM2 ocean general circulation model and a 
dynamic/thermodynamic sea-ice model (Weaver et al. 2001). The horizontal 
resolution is 1.8x3.6 degrees and the ocean model has 19 vertical levels. The 
terrestrial carbon model is a modified version of the MOSES2 land surface model 
and the TRIFFID dynamic vegetation model (Meissner et al. 2003). Ocean carbon 
is simulated by means of an OCMIP-type inorganic carbon-cycle model and a 
marine ecosystem model solving prognostic equations for nutrients, 
phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus (Schmittner et al. 2007). Sediment 
processes are represented using an oxic-only model of sediment respiration 
(Archer 1996). Isopycnal mixing and flux corrected transport were used in the 
ocean model with diapycnal diffusion specified as a horizontally constant 
profile. The sea-ice model is a simple, single layer, thermodynamic version, 
with elastic-viscous-plastic dynamics. 

References
 A.J. Weaver, et al., Atmos.-Ocean 39, 361 (2001). 
 K.J. Meissner, et al., Clim. Dyn. 21,515 (2003). 
 A. Schmittner, et al., Glob. Biogeochem. Cycl., 22, GB1013 (2008)
 D. Archer, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycl. 10, 511 (1996).