Most of the links on the Results page provide access to data from a single model experiment. You may also download tar files containing: all of the data files (files.tgz), data from the historical experiments (files_his.tgz), data from the idealized experiments (files_ide.tgz), data from the RCP scenarios (files_rcp.tgz), or data from the irreversibility experiments (files_irr.tgz). These files can be uncompressed with the command "tar -xvzf" followed by the tar file name. A directory with the same name as the start of the tgz file will be created and this directory will contain the appropriate uncompressed experiment subdirectories and data files.
Results are not filtered. All models did not carry out all experiments. For models that carried out ensemble simulations with more than 10 members (CLIMBER 2 and GENIE), only the ensemble mean is provided, but for LOVECLIM, the five ensemble members (LO1 to LO5) are also available. Within an experiment directory, data files are available for each model that performed the experiment. File names use the short form of the model followed by the short form of the experiment to identify the data. There are no headers in these ASCII data files. Variables were written with an 11e16.8 format, so they are space delimited. Time increases with row and the columns are: YEAR, SAT, OHU, RAD, SLR, AMOC, EMIT, CO2, TCARB, OCARB, LCARB. Time is centred in the middle of the year that the data represents. All data are global mean annual average values. Missing values are set to -9.99000000e+98.
Short forms for models, experiments and variables are as follows:
Models:
- B3 - Bern3D (University of Bern, CH)
- C2 - CLIMBER2 (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, DE)
- C3 - CLIMBER3a (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, DE)
- DC - DCESS (Danish Center for Earth System Science, DK)
- FA - FAMOUS (University of Reading, GB)
- GE - GENIE (Open University, GB)
- IA - IAP RAS CM (Russian Academy of Sciences, RU)
- I2 - IGSM (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
- LO - LOVECLIM (Universite catholique de Louvain, BE)
- ME - MESMO (University of Minnesota, US)
- MI - MIROC3-lite (University of Tokyo, JP)
- ML - MIROC3-lite-LCM (Research Institute for Global Change, JP)
- SP - SPEEDO (Netherlands Centre for Climate Research, NL)
- UM - UMD (University of Maryland, US)
- UV - UVic ESCM (University of Victoria, CA)
- H_AGG - (exp. 4): historical additional greenhouse gas forcing
- H_ALL - (exp. 4): historical all forcing
- H_CO2 - (exp. 4): historical CO2 forcing
- H_CTR - (exp. 4): historical Control
- H_LND - (exp. 4): historical land-use change forcing
- H_ORB - (exp. 4): historical orbital forcing
- H_SOL - (exp. 4): historical solar forcing
- H_SUL - (exp. 4): historical sulphate forcing
- H_VOL - (exp. 4): historical volcanic forcing
- F_ALL - (exp. 4): historical all forcing free CO2
- F_CTR - (exp. 4): historical control free CO2
- F_NAT - (exp. 4): historical natural forcing free CO2
- CCN_2 - (exp. 5.1): CO2 concentration commitment RCP2.6
- CCN_4 - (exp. 5.1): CO2 concentration commitment RCP4.5
- CCN_6 - (exp. 5.1): CO2 concentration commitment RCP6.0
- CCN_8 - (exp. 5.1): CO2 concentration commitment RCP8.5
- CEM_2 - (exp. 5.2): CO2 emission commitment RCP2.6
- CEM_4 - (exp. 5.2): CO2 emission commitment RCP4.5
- CEM_6 - (exp. 5.2): CO2 emission commitment RCP6.0
- CEM_8 - (exp. 5.2): CO2 emission commitment RCP8.5
- CCL_2 - (exp. 5.3): CO2 climate commitment RCP2.6
- CCL_4 - (exp. 5.3): CO2 climate commitment RCP4.5
- CCL_6 - (exp. 5.3): CO2 climate commitment RCP6.0
- CCL_8 - (exp. 5.3): CO2 climate commitment RCP8.5
- CL_2 - (exp. 5.4): climate commitment RCP2.6
- CL_4 - (exp. 5.4): climate commitment RCP4.5
- CL_6 - (exp. 5.4): climate commitment RCP6.0
- CL_8 - (exp. 5.4): climate commitment RCP8.5
- IRa_2 - (exp. 5.5a): decrease to PI CO2 in 100 years RCP2.6
- IRa_4 - (exp. 5.5a): decrease to PI CO2 in 100 years RCP4.5
- IRa_6 - (exp. 5.5a): decrease to PI CO2 in 100 years RCP6.0
- IRa_8 - (exp. 5.5a): decrease to PI CO2 in 100 years RCP8.5
- IRb_2 - (exp. 5.5b): decrease to PI CO2 in 1000 years RCP2.6
- IRb_4 - (exp. 5.5b): decrease to PI CO2 in 1000 years RCP4.5
- IRb_6 - (exp. 5.5b): decrease to PI CO2 in 1000 years RCP6.0
- IRb_8 - (exp. 5.5b): decrease to PI CO2 in 1000 years RCP8.5
- IRc_2 - (exp. 5.5c): free CO2 RCP2.6
- IRc_4 - (exp. 5.5c): free CO2 RCP4.5
- IRc_6 - (exp. 5.5c): free CO2 RCP6.0
- IRc_8 - (exp. 5.5c): free CO2 RCP8.5
- 2X - (exp. 6): instantaneous doubling of CO2 then hold fixed
- 4Xa - (exp. 7a): instantaneous quadrupling of CO2 then hold fixed
- 4Xb - (exp. 7b): instantaneous quadrupling of CO2 then free CO2
- 4Xc - (exp. 7c): 1% to quadrupling of CO2 then hold fixed
- 4Xd - (exp. 7d): 1% to quadrupling of CO2 then free CO2
- 4Xe - (exp. 7e): 1% to quadrupling of CO2 then hold fixed (radiatively uncoupled)
- 4Xf - (exp. 7f): 1% to quadrupling of CO2 then hold fixed (biogeochemically uncoupled)
- SAT = global surface air temperature
- OHU = ocean heat uptake
- RAD = estimated externally specified radiative forcing
- SLR = global sea level rise
- AMOC = Atlantic meridional overturning index
- EMIT = diagnosed or specified emissions
- CO2 = atmospheric CO2
- TCARB = total model carbon
- OCARB = ocean carbon
- LCARB = land carbon