Independent Variables (Grids)

bnds	grid: /bnds (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (2.0) N= 2 pts :grid
perturbed physics	grid: /L (ids) ordered [ (1)] :grid
latitude (latitude)	grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered [ (89.57009S) (89.01318S) (88.45297S) ... (89.57009N)] N= 320 pts :grid
longitude (longitude)	grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0) to (0.5625W) by 0.5625 N= 640 pts :grid
initialization method	grid: /M (ids) ordered [ (1)] :grid
realization (realization)	grid: /N (ids) ordered (1) to (3) by 1.0 N= 3 pts :grid
time (time)	grid: /time (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1950) to (Dec 2005) by 1.0 N= 672 pts :grid
time2 (time)	grid: /time2 (days since 1950-1-1) ordered (1200 31 Dec 1974 - 1200 1 Jan 1975) to (1200 30 Dec 1975 - 1200 31 Dec 1975) by 1.0 N= 365 pts :grid

Other Info

branch_time

14600.0

cmor_version

2.5.8

contact

bronaugh@uvic.ca

Conventions

CF-1.4

creation_date

2012-07-16T05:14:20Z

ETCCDI_indices_archive

Please check http://www.cccma.ec.gc.ca/data/climdex/climdex.shtml for errata or updates.

ETCCDI_institution

Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium

ETCCDI_institution_id

PCIC

ETCCDI_software

climdex.pcic

ETCCDI_software_version

0.6.1

experiment

historical

experiment_id

historical

forcing

GHG, SA, Oz, LU, Sl, Vl, SS, Ds, BC, MD, OC (GHG includes CO2, N2O, methane, and fluorocarbons; Oz includes OH and H2O2)

frequency

monClim

initialization_method

1

input_creation_date

2011-04-28T05:26:29Z

input_frequency

day

input_title

MIROC4h model output prepared for CMIP5 historical

input_tracking_id

06213403-7acc-4aba-b2a2-f060c38995ea

institute_id

MIROC

institution

AORI (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan), NIES (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan), and JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan)

MIROC_contact

Masahide Kimoto (kimoto@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Masayoshi Ishii (ism@jamstec.go.jp)

MIROC_references

Sakamoto et al., 2011: MIROC4h -- a new high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model. (in preparation); Tatebe et al., 2011: (in preparation)

model_id

MIROC4h

modeling_realm

atmos

nco_openmp_thread_number

1

parent_experiment

pre-industrial control

parent_experiment_id

piControl

physics_version

1

product

output

project_id

CMIP5

source

MIROC4h 2009 atmosphere: AGCM (AGCM5.8, T213L56); ocean: COCO (COCO3.4, rotated pole 1280x912 L48); sea ice: COCO (COCO3.4); land: MATSIRO (MATSIRO, 2x3L5)

table_id

Table day (11 April 2011) ec52f6ea2595168e5458ad1b950fd49c

title

ETCCDI indices computed on MIROC4h model output prepared for CMIP5 historical

References

Sillmann, J., V. V. Kharin, X. Zhang, F. W. Zwiers, and D. Bronaugh (2013), Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 1. Model evaluation in the present climate, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 1716-1733, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50203.

Sillmann, J., V. V. Kharin, F. W. Zwiers, X. Zhang, and D. Bronaugh (2013), Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2473-2493, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50188.

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