The World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) multi-model dataset

Under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Working Group on Cloupled Modelling (WGCM) established the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) as a standard experimental protocol for studying the output of coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs). CMIP provides a community-based infrastructure in support of climate model diagnosis, validation, intercomparison, documentation and data access. This framework enables a diverse community of scientists to analyze GCMs in a systematic fashion, a process which serves to facilitate model improvement.

The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) archives much of the CMIP data. Part of the CMIP archive constitutes phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3), a collection of climate model output from simulations of the past, present and future climate.

This unprecedented collection of recent model output is officially known as the "WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset". It is meant to serve the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Working Group 1, which focuses on the physical climate system -- atmosphere, land surface, ocean and sea ice -- and the choice of variables archived reflects this focus. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program to assess scientific information on climate change. The IPCC publishes reports that summarize the state of the science.

The research based on this dataset provided much of the new material underlying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Date (Publication): 2010-10-14T12:39:53

Date (Creation): 2010-10-14T12:39:53

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/72afa18db5988d1be0066a26e09422df

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 72afa18db5988d1be0066a26e09422df

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Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) - author

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Unavailable - Taylor, Karl ( author )

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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Keywords

IPCC
CMIP3

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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OnLine resource: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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OnLine resource: CMIP3 References at PCMDI
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OnLine resource: About the WCRP CMIP3 Multi-Model Dataset Archive at PCMDI
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OnLine resource: CMIP3 Climate Model Documentation at PCMDI
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OnLine resource: CMIP3 Metadata Directory
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OnLine resource: IPCC Standard Output from Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCMs
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OnLine resource: Diagnostic subprojects
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OnLine resource: About WCRP CIMP3 Model output
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OnLine resource: CMIP - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Overview
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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2026-05-06T02:28:43

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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