The CMIP6 data request: The next generation climate archive

A poster to show the CMIP6 data request: The next generation climate archive. Phase 6 of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP6) will be organised through a collection of endorsed model inter-comparison projects (MIPs) with focussed scientific objectives. Co-ordinating teams submit proposals for experiments and data analysis to the CMIP panel. Final proposals from 23 “Model Inter-comparison Projects” proposing analysis, 19 of them proposing a total of 195 different experiments, in addition to a core set of “DECK” experiments and the CMIP6 Historical Simulation defined by the CMIP panel, have been distributed to modelling groups. Endorsement of proposals will depend on the level of support, in the form of commitments to participate; ● As part of the MIP proposals, data request templates have been filled out by each group; this information will be consolidated and circulated to modelling groups April 15th; ● Modelling groups asked to provide commitments to the CMIP panel by April 22nd; ● A clean draft of the CMIP6 Data Request will be published at the end of July 2015; ● Version 1 CMIP6 Data Request approved at WGCM meeting (31 October 2015)