LASG-IAP FGOALS Grid points Version 2

Abbreviated Model Name:

FGOALS-g2

Ensemble:

CMIP5

Experiments:

RCP 2.6

RCP 4.5

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/LASG-CESS/FGOALS-g2/historical/day/atmos/day/r1i1p1/v20130126/clt/clt_day_FGOALS-g2_historical_r1i1p1_19500101-19501231.nc

Data Filenames to Download:

LSF2hiXAHsftlf000v130314 LSF2hiMIXsic111v1

Documentation

Model Documentation Link:

Model documentation

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:

1950-2005

2006-2200

Length (years) of Files:

1 year

Spatial Coverage:

United States

Canada

Spatial Resolution (atmospheric):

T42 (~2.8125 deg)

Model Components

Lake Treatment:

from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270812872_The_flexible_global_o...

"The four components of FGOALS-g2 include:

the atmospheric component (GAMIL2); the oceanic

model (LICOM2; LASG IAP climate system ocean

model version 2); the sea ice component (CICE4-

LASG; Community Ice CodE), an improved version

of CICE4.0 (Los Alamos sea ice model version 4.0,

http://climate.lanl.gov/Models/CICE); and the intro-

duced Community Land Model (CLM3) from the Na-

tional Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). All

the model components are connected by the coupler

CPL6 (Craig et al., 2005) from the NCAR"

Community Land Model 3.0 includes a lake model1 2

1. Oleson, K. et al. (2004) Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM). NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-461+STR
2. see map in figure 4

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:

Daily

Temperature Units:

Kelvin

Precipitation

Total Precipitation Output Name:

Total Precipitation Temporal Frequency:

Daily

Convective Precipitation Output Name:

prc

Convective Precipitation Temporal Frequency:

Daily

Precipitation Units:

kg m-2 s-1

Sea Level Pressure

Sea Level Pressure Output Name:

psl

Sea Level Pressure Temporal Frequency:

Daily

Sea Level Pressure Units:

Pascal (Pa)

Wind

Wind Output Name:

uas/vas

Wind Speed Units:

m/s

Snow

Snow Depth Output Name:

snd

Snow Depth Temporal Frequency:

Monthly

Snow Depth Units:

meters

Snowfall Flux Output Name:

prsn

Snowfall Flux Temporal Frequency:

Daily

Snowfall Flux Units:

kg m-2 s-1

Figures

Representation of Great Lakes

Surface Temperature Where Land or Sea Ice:

Skin Temperature:

Land-Sea Fractions

Land-Sea Mask Data:

Link to Data

Great Lakes Ice

Ice Area Fraction (DJF):

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