Welcome to the DKRZ ESGF-CoG Node

The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) maintains a global system of federated data centers that allow access to the largest archive of model climate data world-wide.

ESGF portals like this one provide access to the output of the climate models contributing to the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC through the Coupled Model Intercomparion Project CMIP. The WGCM Infrastructure Panel is the official CMIP document home.

This is the portal hosted by the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), which is part of the European IS-ENES Infrastructure. As a national HPC center, DKRZ provides high performance computers, high capacity data storage and data management for German climate research. In addition DKRZ’s specialists offer a range of services and support covering modeling and programming as well as data dissemination and long-term archival.

The following projects require a ESGF Account (create account). Some also require a Group Registration (see links below) to access their data

Search all Projects

• CMIP6: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6
  • CMIP6 Data Search

• CMIP5: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5
  • Group Registration: CMIP5 Research  CMIP5 Commercial
  • CMIP5 Data Search

• CORDEX: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment
  • Group Registration: CORDEX Research CORDEX Commercial
  • CORDEX Data Search

• Obs4MIPs: Observations for Climate Model Intercomparisons
  • Group Registration: CMIP5 Research
  • Obs4MIPs Data Search

• MPI-GE: MPI Grand Ensemble
  • Group Registration: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • MPI-GE Data Search

• ISI-MIP: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project
  • Group Registration: ISI-MIP Research  ISI-MIP Unrestricted

If you do not find want you are looking for, enable 'Show All Replicas' in the faceted search engine to increase the chances of finding a suitable federated node in the grid that hosts the data of your interest.

Learn the full capabilities of the ESGF service by visiting the User Tutorial and FAQs.

Find the model documentation at the Earth System Documentation ES-DOC portal. As part of the ES-DOC ecosystem, the Errata Service centralizes timely information about known issues of ESGF data. If you do not find what you are looking for, please write to the modelling group, the contact information is in the header of the NetCDF file.

For data management issues, please write the following to the esgf-user@lists.llnl.gov emailing list:

If you want to meet the community and be informed of downtime notifications and updates, please register to the emailing list here.

Expert users may also want to use the ESGF Search RESTful API:
http://esgf-data.dkrz.de/esg-search/search?