ENES Model Data

CMIP6: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

The WGCM Infrastructure Panel is the official CMIP6 document home. CMIP6 is essentially a continuation and extension of CMIP5. Forcing data for CMIP6 and other MIP projects are already in the Earth System Grid Federation ESGF under project input4MIPs (emission scenarios included).

Information for Data Users:

• CMIP6 Guidance for Data Users
• Search and Download ESGF tutorial to access data from the ESGF portals.
• CMIP6 Data Request contains the list of short names for variables with their standard names, long names, units, and some explanations. Find the spreadsheet here.

Information for Modelers:

• CMIP6 Participation Guidance for Modelers
• CMIP6 repository at GitHub

CMIP5 & AR5

Information on the data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 - CMIP5 and on the subset used for the IPCC-AR5

CMIP5 is the 5th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) promoted by the WCRP’s Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM).

• Documentation
• Data description
• Data structure
• Models and Grid Resolution
• Forcing data
• Forcing data for Regional Climate Models
• Data Quality
• Data issues

Access to CMIP5 Data

CMIP5 are available at the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) which is the official WGCM repository. Other distribution centers can be found here.

AR5 Database

The IPCC has used CMIP5 Data as the scientific basis for its 5th Assessment Report (AR5). The AR5 Database is based on the status of CMIP5 data on March 15, 2013.

Access to AR5 Data

CMIP5 data are also accessible via the IPCC Data Distribution Center (DDC).

CORDEX-CMIP5

Information on the data from the COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment - CORDEX

CORDEX provides global coordination of regional climate downscaling for improved regional climate change adaptation and impact assessment. IS-ENES, the infrastructure project for ENES, works in close cooperation with CORDEX to manage the data collection, quality control, data publishing, and data dissemination via the ENES data federation.

• CORDEX Data Access
• CORDEX Data structure
• CORDEX Data citation
• CORDEX homepage (including the descriptions of domains and coordinate systems)
• GitHub page to collect the various repositories
• Users support email: datasupport(at)cordex.org

Access to CORDEX Data

Find here the instructions to access CORDEX data at ESGF portals. Besides, the regional CORDEX data portals can be reached via the CORDEX homepage.

CMIP3 & AR4

The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase three, provided the scientific basis for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) established the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) as a standard experimental protocol for studying the output of coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs). CMIP provides a community-based infrastructure in support of climate model diagnosis, validation, intercomparison, documentation and data access. This framework enables a diverse community of scientists to analyze GCMs in a systematic fashion, a process which serves to facilitate model improvement. Virtually the entire international climate modeling community has participated in this project since its inception in 1995. CMIP3 data are in the ESGF now.

Phase three of CMIP (CMIP3) included “realistic” scenarios for both past and present climate forcing. The research based on this dataset provided much of the new material underlying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).