University of Tokyo, National Institute for Environmental Studies, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (MIROC) Earth System Model

Abbreviated Model Name:

MIROC-ESM

Ensemble:

CMIP5

Experiments:

RCP 2.6

RCP 4.5

RCP 6

RCP 8.5

historical

Getting the Data

Data Access Link:

World Data Center for Climate CMIP5 Archive

Create an account here to download CMIP5 data. Instructions on how to search for and acquire the data are available here.

Data File Format:

.nc

Data Filename Convention:

clt_cfDay_MIROC-ESM_historical_r1i1p1_19760101-20051231.nc

Data Filenames to Download:

MIMEr8MJIsnd111v111129 MIMEr8DADvas111v120710 MIMEr8DADuas111v120710 MIMEr8DADtas111v120710 MIMEr8DADtasmin111v120710 MIMEr8DADtasmax111v120710 MIMEr8DADpsl111v120710 MIMEr8DADpr111v120710 MIMEr8DADprsn111v120710 MIMEr8DADprc111v120710 MIMEr6MJIsnd111v111129 MIMEr6DADvas111v120710 MIMEr6DADuas111v120710 MIMEr6DADtas111v120710 MIMEr6DADtasmin111v120710 MIMEr6DADtasmax111v120710 MIMEr6DADpsl111v120710 MIMEr4MJIsnd111v111129 MIMEr4DADvas111v120710 MIMEr4DADuas111v120710 MIMEr4DADtas111v120710 MIMEr4DADtasmin111v120710 MIMEr4DADtasmax111v120710 MIMEr4DADpsl111v120710 MIMEr4DADpr111v120710 MIMEr4DADprsn111v120710 MIMEr4DADprc111v120710 MIMEr2MJIsnd111v111129 MIMEr2DADvas111v120710 MIMEr2DADuas111v120710 MIMEr2DADtas111v120710 MIMEr2DADtasmin111v120710 MIMEr2DADtasmax111v120710 MIMEr2DADpsl111v120710 MIMEr2DADpr111v120710 MIMEr2DADprsn111v120710 MIMEr2DADprc111v120710 MIMEhiXAHsftlf000v120828 MIMEhiMJIsnd111v111129 MIMEhiDADvas111v120710 MIMEhiDADuas311v120710 MIMEhiDADtas111v120710 MIMEhiDADtasmin111v120710 MIMEhiDADtasmax111v120710 MIMEhiDADpsl111v120710 MIMEhiDADpr111v120710 MIMEhiDADprsn111v120710 MIMEhiDADprc111v120710 MIMEr6DADpr111v120710 MIMEr6DADprsn111v120710 MIMEr6DADprc111v120710 MIMEhiMAAts111v120710 MIMEhiMIXsic111v120710

Documentation

Model Documentation Link:

Model Description

Data Distribution Center (select model and experiment from table)

IPCC AR5 WG1 Chapter 9 Report (see Appendix 9A)

World Data Center for Climate (click magnifying glass in far right column for each experiment)

CMIP5 Variable Descriptions

CMIP5 Model Component Descriptions (ES-DOC)

CMIP5 Variable Descriptions (New Table)

Time and Space Information

Available Years of Data:

1976-2005

2006-2100

Length (years) of Files:

full time span in single file

Spatial Coverage:

United States

Canada

Spatial Resolution (atmospheric):

T42 (~2.8125 deg)

Model Components

Lake Treatment:

Paper describing model components: MIROC-ESM 2010: model description and basic results of CMIP5-20c3m experiments

MIROC-ESM includes a land surface model: Minimal Advanced Treatments of Surface Interaction and RunOff (MATSIRO; Takata et al., 2003), coupled to a river routing model, TRIP (Oki and Sud, 1998), for calculating river discharge. In MATSIRO, the heat and water exchanges between the land and atmosphere are calculated, as are the thermal and hydrological conditions in the soil. The model consists of a single layer canopy, three layers of snow, and six layers of soil to a depth of 14 m.

Takata, K., Emori, S., and Watanabe, T.: Development of the minimal advanced treatments of surface interaction and runoff, Global Planet. Change, 38, 209–222, doi:10.1016/S0921- 8181(03)00030-4, 2003.

From Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

"In the MIROC-ESM, each land grid cell is subdivided in 900 cells of the terrestrial ecosystem model. The number of these cells assigned as cropland, pasture, and urban land is defined according to the harmonized landuse fraction."

Atmospheric Dynamical Core:

Spectral

Variables and Units

only the variables that are being collected for the Ensemble are shown

Temperature

Mean Temperature Output Name:

tas

Mean Temperature Temporal Frequency:

Daily

Min/Max Temperature Output Name:

tasmin/tasmax

Min/Max Temperature Temporal Frequency: