Data coverage
This dataset provides several global fields describing the state of atmosphere, ocean, land and ice from a high-resolution (0.1o for the ocean/ice models 0.25o for the land/atmosphere models) numerical earth system model, the Community Earth System Model (CESM, https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/). Texas A&M University (TAMU) and National Center for Atmospheric Research together with international partners collaboratively carried out a large set of high-resolution climate simulations, including a 500-year long preindustrial control simulation (PI-CTRL) described here. The CESM uses dynamic equations with a climatological (observations, long-term averaged) initial state of the earth system and the preindustrial greenhouse gas forcing (kept constant at the 1850 conditions) for making this PI-CTRL. Compared to standard low-resolution (1o) CMIP-class simulations, this high-resolution simulation dataset enables researchers to explore the contribution from processes at a wide range of spatial scales, from mesoscales to global scales, in shaping various observed climate phenomena with better accuracy.
Access & permitted use
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This dataset is created in collaboration with NCAR and the NCAR’s “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license” used for their CESM2 LENS data product on AWS (https://www.ucar.edu/terms-of-use/data) will be applicable for the CESM-HR PI-CTRL datasets too.
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