"historicalXXX" are an experiment family of additional historical experiments of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 ( https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5 ) including historicalExt, historicalGHG, historicalMisc and historicalNat. CMIP5 is meant to provide a framework for coordinated climate change experiments for the next five years and thus includes simulations for assessment in the IPCC AR5. This subset of the CMIP5 additional historical data were collected by ETH Zurich until 15th March 2013 in support of IPCC AR5 Working Group 1 ( http://wiki.c2sm.ethz.ch/COSMO/CMIP5 ). These data are part of the IPCC-DDC AR5. historicalXXX: Variation of the CMIP5 historical experiment with alternate forcing (only greenhouse gas forcing for GHG and only natural forcing for Nat) or an extended historical run until near-present (Ext). Experiment design: https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/experiment_design.html List of output variables: https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/datadescription.html Output: time series per variable in model grid spatial resolution in netCDF format Earth System model and the simulation information: CIM repository Data are structured and entry names are set according to the ETH Zurich Archive layout: "experiment/MIP table/variable/model/ensemble member/CMOR filename.nc" (e.g.: historicalGHG/Amon/tas/HadGEM2-ES/r1i1p1/tas_Amon_HadGEM2-ES_historicalGHG_r1i1p1_185912-188411.nc )
Knutti, Reto (2014). IPCC Working Group I AR5 snapshot: The additional historical experiments (historicalExt/GHG/Misc/Nat). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/ETH_cmip5_historicals
Basic checks on data gaps and overlaps, no scientific evaluation of the data; SQA - Scientific Quality Assurance 'approved by author' 02/19/2014; TQA ...
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Basic checks on data gaps and overlaps, no scientific evaluation of the data; SQA - Scientific Quality Assurance 'approved by author' 02/19/2014; TQA - Technical Quality Assurance 'approved by WDCC' 03/21/2014 A general list of errata in CMIP5 data is available at: http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/errata/cmip5errata.html
Completeness report
as complete as the archive of IPCC-AR5 WG1 at ETH Zurich (snapshot 15th March 2013)
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as complete as the archive of IPCC-AR5 WG1 at ETH Zurich (snapshot 15th March 2013)
Consistency report
as consistent as the models are; ...
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as consistent as the models are; consistency with project requirements was checked within the CMIP5 data quality procedure described at: http://cmip5qc.wdc-climate.de .
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[QualityFlag=approved by author] [DateOfTQA=2014-03-21]
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