CMIP6 20th century experiments (1850-2014) with CAM6, interactive land (CLM5), coupled ocean (POP2) with biogeochemistry (MARBL), interactive sea ice (CICE5.1), and non-evolving land ice (CISM2.1)

Simulation of recent past (1850 to 2014). Impose changing conditions (consistent with observations). Should be initialised from a point early enough in the pre-industrial control run to ensure that the end of all the perturbed runs branching from the end of this historical run end before the end of the control. Only one ensemble member is requested but modelling groups are strongly encouraged to submit at least three ensemble members of their CMIP historical simulation. (CMIP6 Experiment).

Users can access the data from the Earth System Grid Federation or Climate Data Gateway as registered users; see the 'Related links' section.

Diagnostic plots are also available from the 'Related links'.

NCAR users may access the data from Glade; path(s) listed in the 'Additional Information' section.

This is the only DASH metadata record for members 001 through 011 of a 11 member ensemble set.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1850-01-01
    End:  2010-01-01

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1850-01-01
Temporal Range End 2010-01-01
Temporal Resolution Annual;Monthly;Daily;Sub-daily;Annual;Monthly;Daily;Sub-daily;Annual;Monthly;Daily;Sub-daily;Annual;Monthly;Daily;Sub-daily;
Bounding Box North Lat 90.0
Bounding Box South Lat -90.0
Bounding Box West Long -180.0
Bounding Box East Long 180.0
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 0.9 latitude_resolution_atmosphere_land_degrees
1.25 longitude_resolution_atmosphere_land_degrees
1.0 latitude_resolution_ocean_seaice_degrees
1.0 longitude_resolution_ocean_seaice_degrees
Related Links

Caseroot SVN URL : CESM Caseroot files archive including XML, user namelists and case source modifications.

CMIP6 Data Request : CMIP6 Data Request Details

climate variability diagnostics :

ESGF publication : ESGF experiment data URL

ocean diagnostics :

land diagnostics :

sea-ice diagnostics :

atmosphere diagnostics :

Additional Information

These data were generated by cesm2.1-exp006 on 2018-10-01 using machine cheyenne.

CESM specific information:

casename = b.e21.BHIST.f09_g17.CMIP6-historical.004

case_id = 18

compset = HIST_CAM60_CLM50%BGC-CROP_CICE_POP2%ECO%ABIO-DIC_MOSART_CISM2%NOEVOLVE_WW3_BGC%BDRD

grid = a%0.9x1.25_l%0.9x1.25_oi%gx1v7_r%r05_g%gland4_w%ww3a_m%gx1v7

NCAR users can access the native CESM single variable time series files at /gpfs/fs1/collections/cdg/timeseries-cmip6/b.e21.BHIST.f09_g17.CMIP6-historical.004
Resource Format NETCDF
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 5767185 MB
Legal Constraints

CESM Copyright and Terms of Use (http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/copyright.html)
Access Constraints Registration required to download datasets
Software Implementation Language Fortran; python; perl

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Resource Support Email cesm_data@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
Distributor UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email cesm_data@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory

Author Community Earth System Model developers and affiliates
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
Publication Date 2019-06-07
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier historical (CMIP6 Experiment ID)
CESM2 (CMIP6 CESM Model Source)
r4i1p1f1 (CMIP6 Variant Label)
CMIP (CMIP6 MIP Name)
4 (CMIP6 Ensemble Number)
11 (CMIP6 Ensemble Size)
164 (CMIP6 Minimum Number of Years)
b.e21.BHIST.f09_g17.CMIP6-historical.004 (CESM Case Name)
18 (CESM2 Experiments Database ID)
Resource Version cesm2.1-exp006
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2019-12-13T09:36:16.070492
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.cesm::b.e21.BHIST.f09_g17.CMIP6-historical.004::2019-06-07
Metadata Language eng
Suggested Citation Community Earth System Model developers and affiliates. (2019). CMIP6 20th century experiments (1850-2014) with CAM6, interactive land (CLM5), coupled ocean (POP2) with biogeochemistry (MARBL), interactive sea ice (CICE5.1), and non-evolving land ice (CISM2.1). cesm2.1-exp006. UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory. https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/search/cmip6/?institution_id=NCAR&source_id=CESM2&experiment_id=historical&variant_label=r4i1p1f1. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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