Identification

Title

CESM2 2 degree SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 Experiments

Alternative title(s)

d651085

Abstract

This dataset runs the 2 degree CESM2 SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 experiments following the protocol described in: Meinshausen, M., Nicholls, Z. R., Lewis, J., Gidden, M. J., Vogel, E., Freund, M., ... & Wang, R. H. (2020). The shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500. Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (8), 3571-3605, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3571-2020, 2020. Each SSP scenario runs is comprised of 4 experiments: * One simulation spanning 2015-2100 using the SSP protocol which restarted using data from the historical run b.e21.BHIST.f19_g17.CMIP6-historical-2deg.001 at year 2015. * One simulation spanning 2100-2130 which cycles through the forcing of the year 2100 for 30 years. This experiment is meant to create a short climate variability dataset. * One simulation spanning 2100-2300 extending the SSP simulation from the end of 2100. * One simulation spanning 2250-2280 which cycles through the forcing from year 2250. These simulations can be directly compared to their 1 degree CESM2 counterparts. See the Documentation tab for a complete list of available variables. These runs were supported with resources from NSF OPP (#2045075 and #2044965).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d651085/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d651085/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

CESM > NCAR Community Earth System Model

originating controlled vocabulary

title

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-07-08

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > SPECIFIC HUMIDITY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION PROFILES > LATENT HEAT FLUX

originating controlled vocabulary

title

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2026-07-08

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2100

End position

2300

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2026-07-16

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2026-07-16T23:14:10Z

Metadata language

eng; USA