Availability of data, file format and softwareAccess to the HiGEM data sets is available via the HiGEMdata browser directory. Alternatively you can ftp the data from ftp.ceda.ac.uk.Software is available to manipulate and view the HadCM3 data.swapbytes can be used to byte swappp files from the COAPEC dataset if necessary. xconv provides an easy to use pointand click interface to the data. convshprovides a subset of the functionality of xconv, but in a scriptableform, so it can be used to automate some common data processing tasks.Jeff Cole at CGAM Reading, who developed both xconv and convsh, provides some example uses ofconvshA summary of HiGEM data held at the BADC with links to webpages showingand the evolution of certain key parameters is available to HiGEM participants.Details of previous HiGEM simulations can be found here.The HiGEM simulations archived at the BADC are at N144 Atmosphere resolution (1.25 lat x 0.83 lon) and 1/3 degree ocean resolution. The HiGEM simulations have 38 vertical levels in the atmosphere and 40 vertical levels in the ocean.A suite of example datasets are also available to HiGEM partners, these include:HadCM3(L30) - a 100 year integration of a version of the HadCM3 AOGCM, but with 30, instead of 19, atmospheric levelsHadCM3 control integration - 100 year and 1000 year datasets from the Hadley Centre supplied to the NERC COAPEC thematic programme.HadCEML integration - 100 year datasets of the HadCEML modelfrom the Hadley Centre .The current status of the HiGEM dataset at the BADC can be found hereThe HIGEM data file format is as follows: HiGEM simulations are held as 32 bit UM pp files. HadCM3(L30) data are held as 64 bit UM fields files HadCM3 control data are held as 32 bit pp files HadCM3 control data from the Beowulf cluster are held as NetCDF files HadCEML data held as both NetCDF and pp files.