CESM tag to use for comparison to CMIP6 SSP585 run

[apauling]

I am hoping to do a run with some modifications from the standard CMIP6 SSP585 CESM2 run, and then compare to the CMIP6 run as a baseline. To do this, I am wondering which CESM tag I should use for my modified run? I see the tag release-2.1.5 has BSSP585cmip6 compset, but the SSP585 run for CMIP6 was done using tag cesm2.1.4-exp02. Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[peverley]

Hi Andrew,

After consulting with some experts who know better than me:

1. The two tags you reference are functionally equivalent.
2. We recommend using the latest tag in the series to do your comparison. In this case, it's release-2.1.5.

Hope that helps.
Courtney

 

[apauling]

Hi Courtney,

Great, thank you! This is very helpful.

Andrew