CMIP workshop part 3

Presentation

Slides from the presentation can be downloaded here.

Practical part

Exploring CMIP data

Your task

  • Find monthly mean precipitation flux for SSP2-4.5 from NorESM2-LM

  • How many members are there?

  • What is the model resolution of the atmosphere component?

  • Available variants?

  • Available dataset version(s) for say r1i1p1f1?

  • On which server are the data located? Are there any replicas anywhere?

  • How many files are in r1i1p1f1?

  • Download the r1i1p1f1 dataset

  • Inspect metadata in one of the netCDF files with ncdump

  • Look at the data with ncview

  • Load data in jupyter notebook/python/other plotting tool and make plots (maps and timeseries)

  • Based on the presentation today, pick a variable relavant for your work and download from three different models and compare.

AerChemMip Table

Questions