AWI-ESM1.1LR: CMIP6 Pre-Industrial Control Climate Simulation

The AWI-ESM 1.1 LR climate model, released in 2018, includes components for atmosphere, land, ocean, and sea ice. This dataset is part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), which includes simulations from about 120 global climate models and around 45 institutions worldwide. It was run by the Alfred Wegener Institute and serves as a resource for authors of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Climate Change (IPCC-AR6).

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term climate variability under pre-industrial conditions based on the piControl experiment design.
• Validate and compare the performance of the AWI-ESM 1.1 LR model against other CMIP6 models based on its described atmospheric, oceanic, and sea ice components.
• Study Earth system feedbacks using the model's coupled components, including dynamic vegetation and an unstructured ocean grid.
• Use the simulation as a baseline for climate change attribution studies, as it is designed to answer fundamental science questions for IPCC reports.

Strengths

• Model output is part of the internationally-coordinated CMIP6 project, which provides a standardized basis for climate research.
• The AWI-ESM 1.1 LR model includes detailed components for atmosphere (ECHAM6.3.04p1), land (JSBACH 3.20 with dynamic vegetation), ocean, and sea ice (both FESOM 1.4).
• Data is archived for long-term preservation at the IPCC Data Distribution Centre hosted by the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analytical needs.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Collection Method

Output from the AWI-ESM 1.1 LR climate model simulation for the CMIP6 piControl experiment.

Geography

Global