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"Zostoga" gridded data product availability?

nilsleh

Nils
New Member
Hello, I am interested in CESM CMIP6 output of thermostreric sea level rise. The matching variable I found is "zostoga", however, it is only available as a globally spatially averaged data product. I am wondering where I could find a spatially gridded version of this variable? Thanks in advance.
 

klindsay

CSEG and Liaisons
Staff member
The paper
Griffies, S. M., et al.: OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3231–3296, GMD - OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project, 2016.
documents physical ocean diagnostics requested from models participating in CMIP6. The variable `zostoga` appears to be the only requested diagnostics related to thermosteric sea level, so I don't think what you want will be available in the CMIP6 archive for any GCM.

For CESM2, `zostoga` was computed offline. I'm not familiar with the code that computed `zostoga`, or its background, so I don't know if it's possible, or makes sense, to get spatial variations from it.
 
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