Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and Bureau of Meteorology ACCESS Version 1.0

Abbreviated Model Name:

ACCESS1.0

Ensemble:

CMIP5

Experiments:

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/CSIRO-BOM/ACCESS1-0/historical/day/atmos/day/r1i1p1/v4/clt/clt_day_ACCESS1-0_historical_r1i1p1_19500101-19741231.nc

Data Filenames to Download:

CSA0hiXAHsftlf000v1 CSA0hiMIXsic111v2

Documentation

Model Documentation Link:

Model description

CMIP5 datasets from the ACCESS1.0 and ACCESS1.3 coupled climate models

Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques Coupled Global Climate Model Version Five (CNRM-CM5), the Model for Interdisciplin

Data Distribution Center (select model and experiment from table)

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

World Data Center for Climate

CMIP5 Variable Descriptions

CMIP5 Model Component Descriptions (ES-DOC)

CMIP5 Variable Descriptions (New Table)

Time and Space Information

Available Years of Data:

1950-2005

2006-2100

Length (years) of Files:

5 years

25 years

Spatial Coverage:

United States

Canada

Spatial Resolution (atmospheric):

N96 (192×145)

Model Components

Lake Treatment:

ACCESS1.0 Land Component (MOSES) 9 tiles (5 vegetated and 4 non-vegetated)

Vegetation types include water and ice

"MOSES is a Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer

(SVAT) scheme which simulates the exchanges of energy,

momentum and moisture between land surface and

the atmosphere by explicitly modelling the vegetation

canopy."

(PDF) Performance assessment of a GCM land surface scheme using a fine-scale calibrated hydrological model: An evaluation of MOSES for the Nile Basin. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227951944_Performance_assessment_of_a_GCM_land_surface_scheme_using_a_fine-scale_calibrated_hydrological_model_An_evaluation_of_MOSES_for_the_Nile_Basin [accessed Nov 17 2018].

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 Temporal Frequency:

Daily

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:

Skin Temperature:

Land-Sea Fractions

Land-Sea Mask Data:

Link to Data

Great Lakes Ice

Ice Area Fraction (DJF):

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