Resources
Related datasets
The following datasets are often used together with climate models. The datasets are listed in alphabetical order.
Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set (HadISST.2)
The dataset is combining monthly global fields of sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice concentration on a 1 degree latitude-longitude grid from 1850 to date. The dataset combines multiple sources of data, including passive microwave data (satellites), historical data (e.g. sea ice charts (and climatology when no information about the sea ice was available from other sources. Details of the HadISST.2 datasets is found in Titchner et al., 2014.
Figure 1. Latest month of data from dataset (source: HadISST website).
Links to data and documentation:
- HadISST.2 website: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst2/index.html
- Data download
- Overview of datasets: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/
References:
Ocean Reanalyses (ORA-S5)
The Ocean Reanalyses (ORA) Intercomparison Project produces a suite of ORAs datasets for ocean parameters globally. The datasets provide an estimate of the historical ocean state from 1979 to present, as well as a real time component providing the latest ocean conditions for numerical weather prediction. Data are generated and made freely available online by ECMWF. Details of contents and how the data is generated is available from links and paper below.
Figure 2. Overview of differences between ORAP5 and ORAS5 in production system settings (source: Zuo et al. 2019).
Links to data and documentation:
- ORA Intercomparison Project: http://icdc.cen.uni-hamburg.de/1/daten/reanalysis-ocean/oraip.html
- ECWMF website: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/ocean-reanalysis
- Data download
- Single files: ICDC data server
- All files: Script for download
References:
Balmaseda MA, Hernandez F, Storto A, Palmer MD, Alves O, Shi L, Smith GC, Toyoda T, Valdivieso M, Barnier B, et al. 2015. The ocean reanalyses intercomparison project (ORA–IP). Journal of Operational Oceanography. 8(supp1):s80–s97. doi: 10.1080/1755876X.2015.1022329
Palmer, M.D., Roberts, C.D., Balmaseda, M. et al. Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses. Clim Dyn 49, 909–930 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2801-0
Zuo, H., Balmaseda, M. A., Tietsche, S., Mogensen, K., and Mayer, M.: The ECMWF operational ensemble reanalysis–analysis system for ocean and sea ice: a description of the system and assessment, Ocean Sci., 15, 779–808, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-779-2019
Data infrastructure and repositories
Selected data infrastructures and repositories holding data that can be useful for ARCPATH (in alphabetical order):
- ESFG nodes:
- CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, UK): https://esgf-index1.ceda.ac.uk/projects/esgf-ceda/
- DKRZ (German Climate Computing Center, Germany): https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/projects/esgf-dkrz/
- GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA; US): https://esgdata.gfdl.noaa.gov/projects/esgf-gfdl/
- IPSL (Pierre Simon Laplace Institute, France): https://esgf-node.ipsl.upmc.fr/projects/esgf-ipsl/
- LIU (National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping, Sweden): https://esg-dn1.nsc.liu.se/projects/esgf-liu/
- LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US): https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/esgf-llnl/
- NCI (National Computational Infrastructure, Australia) https://esgf.nci.org.au/
- Met Office Hadley Data Centre: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/
- NIRD (Norwegian Infrastructure for Research Data): https://archive.norstore.no/
- NorDataNet (Norwegian Scientific Data Network): https://www.nordatanet.no/
- NMDC (Norwegian Marine Data Centre): https://nmdc.no/
- PANGAEA: https://www.pangaea.de/
- YOPP data portal: https://yopp.met.no/
Related projects
The following projects contribute to the climate models or tools used in ARCPATH (in alphabetical order):
- APPLICATE (EC H2020): https://applicate-h2020.eu/
- Coupled reanalysis of the climate back to 1850 (CoRea) (RCN): https://www.norceresearch.no/en/projects/coupled-reanalysis-of-the-climate-back-to-1850-corea
- INES (RCN): https://www.norceresearch.no/en/projects/infrastructure-for-norwegian-earth-system-modelling-ines
- INTAROS (EC H2020): http://www.intaros.eu/
- SFI Climate Futures (RCN): https://www.climatefutures.no/en/home/
- TRIATLAS (EC H2020): https://triatlas.w.uib.no/
Projects supported by the NordForsk’s Joint Nordic Initiative on Arctic Research (in addition to ARCPATH):
- Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities (REXSAC)
- Reindeer Husbancry in a GlobalizingNorth – Resilience, Adapatations and Pathways for Actions ReiGN)
- Climate-change Effects on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and the Impact on Northern Societies (CLINF)