CCSM4 CMIP5 decadal prediction exp using ocn hindcast initial conditions

Data description:

These dataset is a subset from CMIP5 decadal hindcast experiments, which is created using the Community Climate System Model version 4 (CCSM4).The ocean and sea-ice models are initialized from ocean - sea-ice hindcast simulations, which were forced with the interannually varying CORE* v2 data sets for the 60-year period covering 1948-2007. The atmosphere and land components use initial conditions from a 20C simulation.

*CORE stands for Coordinated Ocean - ice Reference Experiments supported by the CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development.

Acknowledgment:

The CESM project is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science (BER) of the U.S. Department of Energy. NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, located in the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science (BER) of the Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.