[RegCNET] Questions about CCSM3 results as RegCM input

[Dennis Shea]

Hello,

Concerning the ESG [Earth Systems Grid] comments.
I passed the email to esg-support. The response:

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The ESG support team is more than willing to answer user
inquiries and facilitate data access.  Please post
your questions to the email address below.
Thank You
ESG Support esg-support at ucar.edu
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Some questions posed to me off-line:

What exactly do they mean by window size datasets? 
Do they mean a subset of the data for a specific 
range of coordinates ?

They say it took several hours to download one field. 
This can be true if the dataset was on the Mass Storage
System since it may take time to retrieve the files it they
are not online.

Could they specify which file(s) they experienced delays?

Otherwise the only possibility is that they have a really slow 
internet connection ... 


>
>Hi, Guangyu:
>
>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Guangyu Wu wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The current version RegCM doesn't have a interface for
>> CCSM3 (or CAM3), I was wondering if it is possible to
>> use output data from them (available at ESG) to drive
>> a future scenario simulation using RegCM.
>
>Yes, it's possible definitely. If you could download the 6-hourly
>CCSM3 fields (from ESG) and let me know the variables you have,
>I would try to give you further advice.
>
>You know, when I downloaded the monthly fields from ESG, it took 
>several hours for one fields (Tas or Precipitation), I estimate it
>would take some time to download the 6-hourly 3-D fields.
>
>There seems a way to get the window size datasets from ESG but I
>don't know how to do it. Does someone know ?
>
>By the way, we could possibly provide the window size ECHam5 IPCC AR4
>(A2 and RF) datasets and put then at our ftp server.
>
>Regards,
>Xunqiang Bi
>
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