Welcome to the DKRZ ESGF-CoG Node

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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. See a CMIP intro video here.

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The infrastructure of the European part of ESGF is coordinated within the IS-ENES project and new services are developed to provide users with server-side processing capabilities. It means your analyses can be performed near the data at the IS-ENES HPC centers to avoid the heavy data download of raw model data. Our new server-side services:

• the European Network of Earth System Modelling Climate Analyitics Service (ECAS).
• the Analysis Platforms open call for multimodel analyses of the CMIP6 and CORDEX model data and apply for CPU computing hours at the IS-ENES HPC centers with direct access to locally maintaned high volume data sets
• the Climate4Impact portal dedicated to climate impact users who want to perform server-side visualizations, indices calculations, downscaling, subsetting, and regridding, and download the lightweight results of their analyses.

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

Search all Projects

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

• input4MIPs: Boundary Condition and Forcing Datasets for CMIP6
  • Information
  • input4MIPs Data Search

• CMIP5: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5. CMIP5 project data downloads are now unrestricted. Please use the -s option to wget scripts to bypass the login promp.
  • 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. Please, visit the Data Nodes Status to find the nodes that are down.

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. Look up an issue here. If the errata you found is not there, please write to the modelling group, the contact information is in the header of the NetCDF file. For CMIP6 data, click on "Show Citation" when finding the data in the faceted search.

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?

Please note:

• Access to the THREDDS catalogs is disabled on several data nodes due to performance issues
• Access to "My Profil" is disabled due to privacy issues