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IPCC 4th Assessment Report (2007): Scenario COMMIT

Scenario: COMMIT

An idealised scenario in which the atmospheric burdens of long-lived greenhouse gasses are held fixed at AD2000 levels.More details on scenarios here.

Data Tables

Each block in the table contains links to one or more data files and to one information page (the `info' link) with further information.

The data files are 'tar' files with names of the form [model]_[scenario]_[variable]_[climatology].tar.

The model, scenario and variable are determined by the position in the table.

Each tar file contains several NetCDF files with names of the form: [model]_[scenario]_[ensemble number]_[variable]_[start-year]-[end-year].nc.

Different climatologies are indicated by the links within each table entry.

  • 20x: Twenty year averages, +20-39, +46-65, +80-99, +180-199 (as used in Chapt. 10 of IPCC 2007)
  • 30a: Thirty year averages, +01-30, +31-60, +61-90 (as used in the observational climatologies)
  • 30b: Thirty year averages, +10-39, +40-69, +70-99 (for compatibility with the 3rd Assessment Report)
The averaging period is relative to AD2000 for SRES scenarios A1B, A2 and B1, relative to AD1900 for the twentieth century run (20C3M) and relative to the start of the experiment for the pre-industrial control (PICTL) and the 1PCTO2X and 1PCTO4X runs.

Data available

Variable
Model specific
humidity
precipitation
flux
air
pressure at
sea level
surface
downwelling
shortwave
flux in air
air
temperature
air
temperature
daily max
air
temperature
daily min
eastward
wind
northward
wind
BCCR:BCM2 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
CNRM:CM3 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
CONS:ECHO-G -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
CSIRO:MK3 -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- --
GFDL:CM2 -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
GFDL:CM2_1 -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
INM:CM3 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
IPSL:CM4 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
LASG:FGOALS-G1_0 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
MPIM:ECHAM5 -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
MRI:CGCM2_3_2 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
NASA:GISS-ER 20x; 30a; 30b; info 20x; 30a; 30b; info 20x; 30a; 30b; info 20x; 30a; 30b; info 20x; 30a; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30a; 30b; info 20x; 30a; 30b; info
NCAR:CCSM3 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- --
NIES:MIROC3_2-MED 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info
UKMO:HADCM3 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info -- -- 20x; 30b; info 20x; 30b; info