Repository details

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

Name of repository
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
Additional name(s)
  • CMIP
Repository URL
https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/index.html
Subject(s)
Description
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. The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) archives much of the CMIP data and provides other support for CMIP. We are now beginning the process towards the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and with it the CMIP5 intercomparison activity. The CMIP5 (CMIP Phase 5) experiment design has been finalized with the following suites of experiments: I Decadal Hindcasts and Predictions simulations, II "long-term" simulations, III "atmosphere-only" (prescribed SST) simulations for especially computationally-demanding models. The new ESGF peer-to-peer (P2P) enterprise system (http://pcmdi9.llnl.gov) is now the official site for CMIP5 model output. The old gateway (http://pcmdi3.llnl.gov) is deprecated and now shut down permanently.
Contact
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/about.html
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • service provider
Institution name
Earth System Grid Federation
Additional name(s)
  • ESGF
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
Additional name(s)
  • LLNL, PCMDI
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Met Office Hadley Centre
Contact(s)
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program
Additional name(s)
  • U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, BER, CESD, RGCM Program
  • RGCM Program
Contact(s)
  • renu.joseph@science.doe.gov
  • sc.ber@science.doe.gov
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (3)

Policy Name
Information and Data Sharing Policy
Policy Name
WEB Policies
Policy Name
Terms of use agreement

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Copyrights
DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • other
Data citation guideline
https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/citation.html
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

API type
NetCDF

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
CF (Climate and Forecast) Metadata Conventions
Metadata standard scheme
DCC

Remarks

Remarks
CMIP5 Data: https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/availability.html; https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/?cmip5/index.html
Entry date
2015-11-09
Last update
2023-10-25
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re3data.org: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project; editing status 2023-10-25; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3X64R last accessed: 2024-04-28