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Important Information for Analysts and Authors
Terms of use agreement
Proper citation and acknowledgement
How to access CMIP3
archive and getting started
Output availability
at a glance
Check errata page frequently
List of
simulation specifications
Precise
definitions of variables
Official model names
Model documentation
(including simulation forcing information)
Which control simulation (and time period) should each perturbation run be
compared to?
IPCC AR4
historical details
Terms of use agreement
These data are for use in research projects only. A 'research project' is any project carried
out by an individual or organized by a university, a scientific institute, or similar organization
(private or public) for non-commercial research purposes only. Results based on these data must
be submitted for publication in the open literature without any delay linked to commercial objectives.
An additional restriction is that the UK Met. Office / Hadley Centre requires strict adherence
to the conditions set forth in their "License Statement", which applies to their model output:
"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"
Proper citation and acknowledgement
In first making reference to the data obtained from the CMIP3 archive, please
include the phrase "the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset". Subsequent
references within the same publication might refer to the data with terms such
as "CMIP3 data", "the CMIP3 multi-model dataset", "the CMIP3 archive", or the
"CMIP3 dataset".
Whenever you publish research based on model output from the CMIP3
database, you should include the following acknowledgement:
"We acknowledge the modeling groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and
Intercomparison (PCMDI) and the WCRP's Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) for their
roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset. Support of this dataset is
provided by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy."
[Note that the acronyms, WCRP and CMIP3, should have already appeared in the main text of your article,
where they were presumably defined. You may also have already defined "PCMDI" and "WGCM",
which would allow you to simply refer to them here using the acronyms.]
You may also find it useful to reference the following article, which provides an
overview and documentation of the CMIP3 modelling activity:
Meehl, G. A., C. Covey, T. Delworth, M. Latif, B. McAvaney, J. F. B. Mitchell,
R. J. Stouffer, and K. E. Taylor, 2007: The WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset: A new era in climate
change research,Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 1383-1394.
How to access CMIP3 archive and getting started
Register to
download output
Getting started and other information
Check errata page
In some cases data contributed to the database have been found to contain errors
of various sorts. Certain files are then withdrawn or replaced and an entry is
logged on the errata page:
https://esg.llnl.gov:8443/about/errata.do
The errata page should be checked frequently to avoid analyzing "garbage",
and to determine whether any of the files you have downloaded from the PCMDI
site need to be updated or removed. If any of you find undetected errors in the
data you are analyzing, please contact the responsible modeling group and copy
taylor13@llnl.gov.
One general warning concerning the global attributes in each file -- the "title"
and "comment" attributes may in some cases incorrectly identify the experiment,
whereas the "experiment_id" will always be correct. If there is a
conflict, rely only on experiment_id.
List of Simulation
Specifications
Click here for
experiments and time periods requested from modeling groups.
Precise Definition of Variables
Click here for
precise definitions of all model output fields collected.
Official
model names
To minimize confusion and maximize uniformity across analyses, authors are urged
to use the official
CMIP3 model
"I.D.'s" when referring to individual model results. In addition it
would usually be appropriate to include a table containing the names of the
modeling groups along with citations to their relevant papers.
Model documentation
Click
here for
available documentation of models and their simulations, which have been
contributed to the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset. Note that for most models you can find
information concerning the forcing that was applied in each simulation.
Which control simulation (and
time period) should each perturbation run be compared to?
In order to compare each simulation to the corresponding time period of the
control simulation, you will need the information contained in the following
table, available as:
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