• What's the difference between Raw and Ready to use climate model data?

  Raw and Ready-to-Use data Raw model data have biases which make them inappropriate as direct inputs to environmental models. Hence, statistical processing is needed to reduce this bias and generate Ready to use data that can be directly used in climate change impact modelling studies. Explanation A climate model is an approximate representation of the real world climate drivers. This is due to incomplete understanding of climate physics and/or simplifications required for compuFew readers

• Do you provide historical observations?

  Reanalysis data as observations The historical data we provide are reanalysis, but practitioners often refer to them as “observations” and use them for the same purposes as observations from weather stations. In locations where observations are scarse, reanalysis are one of the solutions that provides past conditions over long time periods. Reanalysis is a scientific method for developing a comprehensive record of how weather and climate are changing over time. In it, observations and a numFew readers

• What's your original data source ?

  Data Sourcing The original model data we process come from research organisations around the world that run Earth System Models to simulate future world climate under different greenhouse gas scenarios. These data are accessible to everyone through a peta-scale distributed database called the Earth System Grid System Federation or ESGF or for a subset through Copernicus Climate Change Service or C3S.Few readers

• What's the difference between "Representative Concentration Pathways" and "Shared Socioeconomic Pathways"?

  What's the difference between Representative Concentration Pathways and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways In the 2014 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) the IPCC introduced the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). RCPs describe different levels of greenhouse gases and other factors in the atmosphere that might occur in the futur that can change the amount of the sun’s energy trapped by earth (known as ‘radiative forcings’ and measured as watts per squared meter). Climate researchers adoPopular