PCM data inquiry

[tao_zhang@noaa_gov]

Dear all,

I want to download the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) output data for Historical, Business-as-usual, and Stabilization runs ranging from 1870s to 2099s.

These data have been used in the paper by Dai et al. (2001).

Dai, A., G.A. Meehl, W.M. Washington, T.M.L Wigley, and Julie A. Arblaster, 2001: Ensemble simulation of 21st century climate changes: business as usual vs. CO2 stabilization.Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 82, 2377-2388.

It is said that For the PCM, there are 10 ensemble runs for the historical simulations and 5 ensemble runs for each of the two future scenarios (BAU and STA550).
What I am interested in is the whole member ensemble mean, which is presented in the above paper.

Then I try to look for the ensemble mean data from PCM, I find that in the link http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/pcm/PCMDI/
There are some descriptions about the experiments (see below), but I can not find the experiments on the ensemble mean from PCM. Also, the downloading path is not clear.

I am writing to ask if the ensemble mean data is available to the Public and how to get these data?
Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

tz0616

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Historical and future scenarios experiments Case Description Time Period

B05.03 Historical 1 Oct 1870-Dec 1999
B05.12 Business-as-usual 1 Jan 2000-Nov 2099
B05.13 Stabilization 1 Mar 2005-Nov 2099
B05.09 Historical 2 Sep 1870-Dec 1999
B05.15 Business-as-usual 2 Jan 2000-Nov 2099
B05.16 Stabilization 2 Mar 2005-Nov 2099
B05.17 Historical 3 Sep 1870-Nov 1999
B05.18 Business-as-usual 3 Jan 2000-Nov 2099
B05.19 Stabilization 3 Mar 2005-Nov 2099
B06.05 Historical 4 Aug 1871-Dec 1999
B06.06 Business-as-usual 4 Jan 2000-Dec 2099
B06.07 Stabilization 4 Mar 2005-Dec 2099
B06.08 Historical 5 Sep 1870-Dec 1999
B06.09 Business-as-usual 5 Mar 2000-Nov 2099
B06.10 Stabilization 5 Oct 2005-Nov 2099
B06.12 Historical 6 Mar 1870-Dec 1999
B06.22 Historical 7 Mar 1870-Dec 1999
B06.23 Historical 8 Mar 1870-Dec 1999
B06.27 Historical 9 Mar 1870-Dec 1999
B06.28 Historical 10 Mar 1870-Dec 1999
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[strandwg]

That PCM data is not currently publically available, however, I can talk with Aiguo Dai and see if we can get those datasets and the ensemble averages available via ESG in the near future.

 

[tao_zhang@noaa_gov]

Thanks for your reply. I am wondering why these data are still not open to the public, since the
results had been published long before. Hopefully, these data can be available very soon.

 

[strandwg]

Actually, these data are available via ESG:

http://www.earthsystemgrid.org

but not the ensemble averages.