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AR4 GCM data

To obtain data choose a centre and an scenario there. Then decide which variables you need and which data format you prefer. Finally, you will be guided to the database interface which will let you retrieve the data files one by one.

The list of requested variables can be find here

These data represent a subset of the IPCC-Mode Ouput archive run for CMIP3 by PCMDI. There you may also find the complete set of variables in monthly, daily or 3 hourly temporal resolution.

The data formats available are GRIB (machine independent, selfdescriptive binary format, WMO standard) and GZIP (compressed ASCII format). Information on both formats and the internal data structure is given here.

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License Statement

These data are licensed for use in Research Projects only. A 'Research Project' is any project organised by a university, a scientific institute, or similar organisation (private or public), for non-commercial research purposes only. A necessary condition of the recognition of non-commercial purposes is that all the results obtained are openly available at delivery costs only, without any delay linked to commercial objectives, and that the research itself is submitted for open publication.
Data provided by the UK Met. Office/Hadley Centre are expected to be acknowledged by :
(c) Crown copyright 2005, Data provided by the Met Office Hadley Centre

Please take note of the acknowledgement information below !

Available SRES Scenarion Runs for AR4

Status of data : August 2006
 Please note
The IPCC-DDC data archive contains data sets that have beem stored at the IPCC Model Output Archive at PCMDI after September 1. 2006 . Thus these data may not have contributed to the results of the IPCC - Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). This concernes individual data sets or even complete experiments.
Experiments that contain data sets which became available from the PCMDI archive after 1. September 2006 and do not have an intetrnal information about a processing data prior to 1. September 2006 are marked by a blue colored cell box. Please have a look into the Quality (meta-data) information for more details.
Center Center
Acronym
Model COM-
MIT
PI-
cntrl
20C3M A2  A1B B1  1%-
2X
1%-
4X
  add.
data
 
Beijing Climate Center
China
BCC CM1       run_1 run_1 run_1      
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Norway
BCCR BCM2.0 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1            
Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Canada
CCCma CGCM3 (T47 resolution) run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1      
CGCM3 (T63 resolution)   run_1 run_1   run_1 run_1 run_1        
Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques
France
CNRM CM3 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1      
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Australia
CSIRO Mk3.0 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1        
Max-Planck-Institut for Meteorology
Germany
MPI-M ECHAM5-OM run_1
run_2
run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1   compl. set of md"  
Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn, Germany
Meteorological Research Institute of KMA, Korea
Model and Data Group at MPI-M, Germany
MIUB
 
METRI
 
M&D
ECHO-G run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_1      
Institude of Atmospheric Physics
China
LASG FGOALS-g1.0 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
  run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
       
Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory
USA
GFDL CM2.0 run_1 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1      
CM2.1 run_1 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1      
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
USA
GISS AOM   run_1
run_2
run_1
run_2
  run_1
run_2
run_1
run_2
         
E-H   run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
  run_1
run_2
run_3
  run_1        
E-R run_1 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1 run_1      
Institute for Numerical Mathematics
Russia
INM CM3.0 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1      
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace
France
IPSL CM4 run_1 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1      
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo,
National Institute for Environmental Studies,
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Japan
AORI
 
NIES
 
JAMSTEC
MIROC3.2 hires   run_1 run_1   run_1 run_1 run_1        
MIROC3.2 medres run_1 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
     
Meteorological Research Institute
Japan
MRI CGCM2.3.2 run_1 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1      
National Centre for Atmospheric Research
USA 
NCAR PCM run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1      
CCSM3 run_1
run_2
run_1 run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1
run_2
run_3
run_1 run_1      
UK Met. Office
UK
UKMO HadCM3 run_1 run_1
run_2
run_1
run_2
run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1     HADEX  
HadGEM1   run_1 run_1
run_2
run_1 run_1   run_1
run_2
       
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Italy
INGV SXG 2005 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1 run_1      
Acknowledgements:

We acknowledge the international modeling groups for providing their data for analysis, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) for collecting and archiving the model data, the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) and their Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and Climate Simulation Panel for organizing the model data analysis activity, and the IPCC WG1 TSU for technical support.

This work, including access to the data and technical assistance, is provided by the World Data Centre Climate (WDCC) at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), with funding from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.