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Last updated: November 13, 2007
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TGICA Mandate
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DDC Governance
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Why does the DDC exist?
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What does the DDC provide?
Guidelines
Observed Climate Data Sets
Global Climate Model Data
Global Climate Model Scenarios
Socio-Economic Data and Scenarios
Data and Scenarios for Other Environmental Changes
Data Visualisation Tools
Who runs the DDC?
British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ)
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA)
Observations
The Climatic Research Unit Global Climate Dataset
High Resolution Data
Download 10-year means of the CRU data
Download 30-year means of the CRU data
Data Visualisation Tools
Additional Information
File Nomenclature
File Format
Data Quality
Definition of Terms
Models: Summary Data
AR4 (2007): SRES Scenarios, multi-year means
TAR (2001): SRES scenarios, 30-year means
SAR (2001): IS92 scenarios, 30-year means
Data Visualisation Tools
Additional Information
Definition of Terms
What is a GCM?
Criteria for selecting climate scenarios
Constructing Change Fields
Reporting and Consistency
About Stochastic Weather Generators
Models: Monthly means
AR4(2007): SRES scenarios
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TAR(2001): SRES scenarios
SAR(1995): IS92 scenarios
Order AR4 data on DVD
Additional Information
Definition of Terms
What is a GCM?
Constructing Change Fields
About Stochastic Weather Generators
Socio-economic data
Baseline Data
TAR(2001), AR4(2007): SRES scenarios
SAR (1995): IS92 scenarios
Additional Information
Definition of Terms
IS92 Scenarios
SRES Scenarios
Environmental data and Scenarios
Scenario data for the atmospheric environment
Technical Guidelines and other Supporting Material
Supporting material
General Guidelines on the use of Scenario Data for Climate Impact and Adaptation Assessment (2007)
Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Regional Climate Model Experiments.
Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Statistical Downscaling Methods.
Regional Scatter Diagrams: Intercomparison of model-based projections
Future climate in the world regions: an intercomparison of model-based projections
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View diagrams by time region
IPCC Data Distribution Centre Feedback
Additional Information
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Data Visualisation Tools
New Unified Visualisation
Dynamic Javascript Visualisation Application
Previous Visualisation Options
View Observed Fields
View Observed Regional Time Series
View SRES GCM Change Fields
View GCM Change Fields
View Observed and GCM Fields Combined
Additional Information
Definition of Terms
What is a GCM?
Criteria for selecting climate scenarios
Constructing Change Fields
Reporting and Consistency
About Stochastic Weather Generators
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