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Welcome to NCI's CMIP Community Page

This is the homepage for information and updates relating to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) data and activities at NCI for use by the Australian climate science community.

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01 Aug 2018  Initial release of CMIP6

CMIP6 data is available for download and analysis under a two-week trial period.

The NCI ESGF portal provides access to CMIP6 the CMIP6 model output is open from 01 Aug 2018, currently under a trial period. Contributions from modelling centers is expected to continue throughout the second half of 2018 and into 2019available at NCI. This data includes the Australian produced datasets as well as priority replicated datasets from international modelling centres. This data will continue to updated as data becomes available throughout 2020.

NCI has established high-capacity links with other ESGF other Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) primary nodes in the US, UK and Europe . This means we are well placed to serve as a primary data service node, and serves as a Tier 1 node in the Australia and Oceania region, with responsibility for hosting authoritative copies of high use replica data. For researchers with access to NCI, a large collection of data will be available with thorough version control and data management as stipulated by the standard procedures set out by the ESGF. Additionally, for Australia and Oceania researchers without access to the NCI facilities, data will be available for download from a Tier 1 source that is much closer than was previously possible. Current replica download variables and data request information can be found here.

Users can use the NCI ESGF portal to search the availability of data at international centres. Please see Data Access Information and Data Download Request for information on how to access data or request additional datasets for replication at NCI.

See below for direct links to the most frequently used resources.

1. CMIP Data Access Information
2. Data Download Request
3. Training

Acknowledgements:

The availability of CMIP6 data, services and user support has been made possible through the Climate Science Data-enhanced Virtual Laboratory project which is a collaboration involving NCI, CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, the ARC Centre for Climate Extremes and supported by some funding by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). It builds on previous Australian e-infrastructure programs, the Climate & Weather Science Lab, and NCI's National Earth Systems Data Collection and Data Services programs. It also supports NCI’s leading role in international collaborations, most notably the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) that provides the international federated capability for CMIP data. The value of this work required funding from the participants and various parties including other NCRIS funding programs ANDS, RDS, and NeCTAR (now ARDC) NCRIS programs. This infrastructure directly contributes to outcomes achieved through other major investments from government-funded research including CAWCR (Collaboration for Australian Weather and Climate Research), NESP (National Environmental Science Program) and the ARC CoE for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) and ARC CoE for Climate Extremes (CLEX).

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