CEDA Metadata Catalogue
The World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset
Under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Working Group on Cloupled 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.
The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) archives much of the CMIP data. Part of the CMIP archive constitutes phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3), a collection of climate model output from simulations of the past, present and future climate.
This unprecedented collection of recent model output is officially known as the "WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset". It is meant to serve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Working Group 1, which focuses on the physical climate system -- atmosphere, land surface, ocean and sea ice -- and the choice of variables archived reflects this focus. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program to assess scientific information on climate change. The IPCC publishes reports that summarize the state of the science.
The research based on this dataset provided much of the new material underlying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-10-14T12:39:53
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-10-14T12:39:53
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 72afa18db5988d1be0066a26e09422df
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Series
- Keywords
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- IPCC
- CMIP3
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to data within this collection is restricted. Please see the individual datasets within this collection for further access details.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1850-01-01T00:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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CMIP3 References at PCMDI
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About the WCRP CMIP3 Multi-Model Dataset Archive at PCMDI
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CMIP3 Climate Model Documentation at PCMDI
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CMIP3 Metadata Directory
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- OnLine resource
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IPCC Standard Output from Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCMs
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Diagnostic subprojects
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About WCRP CIMP3 Model output
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CMIP - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Overview
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- Series
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 72afa18db5988d1be0066a26e09422df XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-12T23:45:22
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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