NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model Version 2M

Abbreviated Model Name:

GFDL-ESM2M

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:

cmip5/output1/NOAA-GFDL/GFDL-ESM2M/historical/day/atmos/day/r1i1p1/v20111228/clt/clt_day_GFDL-ESM2M_historical_r1i1p1_18610101-18651231.nc

Data Filenames to Download:

NGEMr8DADvas111v120228 NGEMr8DADuas111v120228 NGEMr8DADtas111v120228 NGEMr8DADtasmin111v120228 NGEMr8DADtasmax111v120228 NGEMr8DADpsl111v120228 NGEMr8DADpr111v120228 NGEMr8DADprsn111v120228 NGEMr8DADprc111v120228 NGEMr6DADvas111v120228 NGEMr6DADuas111v120228 NGEMr6DADtas111v120228 NGEMr6DADtasmin111v120228 NGEMr6DADtasmax111v120228 NGEMr6DADpsl111v120228 NGEMr6DADpr111v120228 NGEMr6DADprsn111v120228 NGEMr6DADprc111v120228 NGEMr4DADvas111v111228 NGEMr4DADuas111v111228 NGEMr4DADtas111v111228 NGEMr4DADtasmin111v111228 NGEMr4DADtasmax111v111228 NGEMr4DADpsl111v111228 NGEMr4DADpr111v111228 NGEMr4DADprsn111v111228 NGEMr4DADprc111v111228 NGEMhiXAHsftlf000v120123 NGEMhiDADvas111v111228 NGEMhiDADuas111v111228 NGEMhiDADtas111v111228 NGEMhiDADtasmin111v111228 NGEMhiDADtasmax111v111228 NGEMhiDADpsl111v111228 NGEMhiDADpr111v111228 NGEMhiDADprsn111v111228 NGEMhiDADprc111v111228 NGEMr2DADvas111v110601 NGEMr2DADuas111v110601 NGEMr2DADtas111v110601 NGEMr2DADtasmin111v110601 NGEMr2DADtasmax111v110601 NGEMr2DADpsl111v110601 NGEMr2DADpr111v110601 NGEMr2DADprsn111v110601 NGEMr2DADprc111v110601 NGEMhiMAAts111v111228 NGEMhiMOOtos111v130226 NGEMhiMIXsic111v110601

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:

1860-2005

2006-2100

Length (years) of Files:

5 years

Spatial Coverage:

United States

Canada

Spatial Resolution (atmospheric):

2° latitude, 2.5° longitude

Model Components

Lake Treatment:

"The land model in both ESMs (LM3.0) represents land water, energy, and carbon cycles. LM3.0 includes a multilayer snowpack above the soil; continuous vertical representation of soil water, spanning both unsaturated and saturated zones; frozen soil water; parameterization of water table height, saturated-area fraction, and groundwater discharge to streams derived from groundwater hydraulics and surface topography; finite-velocity horizontal transport of river runoff; lakes, lake ice, and lake-ice snowpacks that exchange mass and energy with both the atmosphere and rivers; and consistent, energy-conserving accounting of sensible heat content of water. " - GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics

Atmospheric Dynamical Core:

Finite volumes

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: