[RegCNET] Setting CMIP5 Scheme at RegCM4

[Graziano Giuliani]

On 04/17/2013 09:53 PM, Eko Suryanto wrote:
> Regards,
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> My name is Eko Suryanto. I am graduate student at Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia) at Geophysics and Meteorology courses, at laboratory of climatology.
> I was doing research using the CMIP5 scheme with RegCM4. However I am having problems on ssttyp and dattyp. Is dattyp ssttyp and used the same as that used in other schemes? If not, ssttyp and dattyp what to useto CMIP5?
> One more, so what folder should be in the downloads folder or raw data folder?
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> Thanks you very much,
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Hi Eko,

to use (some) of the CMIP5 datasets, you must use the latest code (would suggest 
going with the 4.4 release canditate).

The relevant dattyp are composed of 5 characters, with a leading 2 char code for 
the CMIP5 model, an underscore "_" and a 2 char code for the scenario.

The model id is in:

CA - Canadian ESM2 model
HA - Hadley model GEM2
CS - CSIRO MK36 model
EC - EC-Earth model
IP - IPSL CM5A code
GF - GFDL ESM2M model
CN - CNRM CM5 model
MP - MPI ECHAM 6 model

The scenario code are:

RF - Reference period up to 2006-01-01 (some models read 2005-12-01)
45 - RCP45 scenario
85 - RCP85 scenario

A ssttyp/dattyp couple for example as:

ssttyp = HA_45,
dattyp = HA_45,

will select the Hadley center HaGEM2 MR model with the RCP 4.5 scenario.

Note that we have as of now available only the r1i1p1, so the code will not work 
with newer releases of the GCMs...

An example of data directory structure and data for a CMIP5 driven run can be 
found at

http://clima-dods.ictp.it/data/d8/cordex

The data here are the ones used for the cited CREMA experiment.

If you have any question on this, please contact me.

Ciao!

Graziano.

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Graziano Giuliani - Earth System Physics Section
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera, 11 - I - 34151 Trieste Italy