Six 150-year climate model simulations were produced using the 1999 version of NASA GISS's Atmosphere-Ocean Model. The dataset includes control runs and experiments with varying greenhouse gases and aerosols, contributed to international climate assessment projects. These simulations were generated by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) for decadal to century-scale climate prediction.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in prognostic variables like fluid mass, horizontal velocity, and heat under compounded annual CO2 increase scenarios.
- Compare climate diagnostics from control simulations with constant 1950 composition against experiments with observed greenhouse gas changes.
- Validate model outputs against other CMIP contributions using the unscaled climate diagnostics from monthly 'D' files.
- Study the impact of tropospheric sulfate aerosol changes combined with varying greenhouse gases on simulated climate fields.
Strengths
- Includes six separate 150-year simulation runs, providing multiple experimental scenarios.
- Simulations cover a 149-year time range from 1950 to 2099 for long-term trend analysis.
- Model development has been continual since the 1970s for atmospheric components and 1990s for coupled models.
- Data was contributed to and validated by major international projects like CMIP and IPCC.
Limitations
- The specific row count, column list, and data volume for the simulations are unknown.
- The latest update timestamp (2100-01-01) is likely a placeholder, indicating actual recency is unclear.
- The dataset's license terms and exact file formats for access are not specified.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
- Collection Method
- Output from the 1999 version of the GISS global coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model computer simulations.
- Time Range
- 1950 to 2099.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global, three-dimensional gridded domain.