CMIP Analysis Platform

Available data sets | Adding data sets
Analysis & visualization resources | Terms of use & acknowledgments

The CMIP Analysis Platform gives researchers convenient access to climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) on CISL’s GLADE disk storage resource.

By hosting the data on GLADE, the platform enables researchers to use the CISL data analysis and visualization resources to work with CMIP data rather than transfer large data sets from Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) sites to their local machines.

Available data sets

University researchers and NCAR staff can work with the CMIP data sets that are on GLADE if they have HPC user accounts and current, allocated projects for using the Casper system.

CMIP6

Some CMIP6 data are available on GLADE or available to request from other modeling centers.

Check here to see what is on GLADE:

CMIP5

See CMIP5 data sets on GLADE.

Adding data sets

If what you need is not already on GLADE, you can add an additional data set.

 

See Downloading additional data sets for instructions to add a data set to the CMIP Analysis Platform space.

 

You will need access to NSF NCAR's HPC resources through one of several allocation avenues (see Allocations).

 

If you need help, contact the NSF NCAR Research Computing help desk.

Data analysis and visualization resources

For information about the analysis and visualization resources, see:

Users can ask to have other software installed by contacting the NCAR Research Computing help desk.

Terms of use and acknowledging support

Users of the CMIP Analysis Platform agree to make the results of their research available through open publication. Analyses performed on the CMIP Analysis Platform should also be contributed to CISL’s annual publications survey.

Users also are required to acknowledge NCAR and CISL support, which they can do by including this statement in journal publications and other scientific documents:

We also would like to acknowledge the data access and computing support provided by the NCAR CMIP Analysis Platform (doi:10.5065/D60R9MSP).

Following are links to additional terms of use for CMIP data defined by the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison.

CMIP6

Register journal articles and other scientific documents based on CMIP6 results here: CMIP6 Publication Hub.

Also see: CMIP6 Guidance for Data Users.

CMIP5

Register journal articles and other scientific documents based on CMIP5 results here: CMIP Publications.

Also see: