CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 Model Output for CMIP5 Pre-Industrial Control Experiment

CMIP5 piControl experiment data provides a framework for coordinated climate change simulations for assessment in the IPCC AR5 report and beyond. This dataset contains a pre-industrial coupled atmosphere/ocean control run from the CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 model, imposing non-evolving pre-industrial conditions. Output is formatted as time series per variable in netCDF format, prepared by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking climate model drift and stability based on the pre-industrial control run design.
• Analyzing internal climate variability under fixed forcing conditions described in the experiment.
• Providing a baseline for climate change experiments within the CMIP5 coordinated framework.
• Studying long-term atmosphere/ocean coupling dynamics in an Earth system model.

Strengths

• Data conforms to the CMIP5 standard output specifications and Data Reference Syntax.
• Experiment is part of a major coordinated international framework for climate model assessment.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

Collection Method

Output from the CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 Earth System model simulation.

Time Range

Pre-industrial control period (specific range not provided).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 19 23:35:15.218928; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global model grid spatial resolution.