Shared diagnostics

This pages is intended for sharing information about diagnostics that might be useful for the wider group.

Global mean tas, pr, rsut, rsdt, rlut from CMIP6 models

All CMIP6 models available at NCI. First ensemble member only. Example file name /g/data/p66/mrd599/CMIP6/tas_ACCESS-CM2_historical.nc

Precipitation over NRM superclusters and BOM regions from CMIP6 models

E.g., /g/data/p66/mrd599/CMIP6/pr_ACCESS-CM2_historical_BOM.nc, /g/data/p66/mrd599/CMIP6/pr_ACCESS-CM2_historical_NRM.nc

BOM regions defined at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/about/rain_timeseries.shtml

NRM clusters defined at https://climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/overview/methodology/nrm-regions/

Also areacella files giving the intersection of these regions with the model grid that can be used to calculate area averages of other fields, e.g. areacella_ACCESS-CM2_BOM.nc  areacella_ACCESS-CM2_NRM.nc.

Common-used climate indices

The timeseries and time-mean data for many cliamte indices (ENSO, IOD etc.) for the CM2 and ESM1.5 ensembles are in the following directory:  /scratch/p66/har599/ACCESS_processed . Note: not all data has been checked.

The variables with a suffix “F” retain the annual cycle (F-> Full) ; for example, use tasF_* for surface air temperatures instead of tas_*. The former retains the annual cycle (F-> Full) and the latter had the annual cycle removed.

For variables with strong trends, the trends should be removed before the annual cycle, which is not the case for variable names with no “F_”.