What is the “ACCESS-NRI Replicated Datasets for Climate Model Evaluation” data collection about?
The primary purpose of the data collection is to provide observational datasets in a format that the evaluation frameworks supported by ACCESS-NRI can use.
This includes a range of datasets from obs4mips, ana4mips and some reanalysis products.
ACCESS-NRI currently supports 2 main frameworks:
You can request access to the ACCESS-NRI collection.
Data is stored in /g/data/ct11 on GADI.
We welcome contributions and feedback through the ACCESS-Hive forum. You can also request help through support.
We thank the NCI data collection team for their support.
ILAMB compatible datasets
ACCESS-NRI provides a curated set of observation and reanalysis data products from various sources in CF-compliant, netCDF4 file formats which can be used for model benchmarking via ILAMB. See NCI catalog entry
The ILAMB datasets cover the following variables :
ILAMB-DATA list
| Albedo | CERESed4.1, GEWEX.SRB |
| Biomass | ESACCI, GEOCARBON, NBCD2000, Saatchi2011, Thurner, USForest, XuSaatchi2021 |
| Burned Area | GFED4.1S |
| Carbon Dioxide | NOAA.Emulated, HIPPOAToM |
| Diurnal Max Temperature | CRU4.02 |
| Diurnal Min Temperature | CRU4.02 |
| Diurnal Temperature Range | CRU4.02 |
| Ecosystem Respiration | FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM |
| Evapotranspiration | GLEAMv3.3a, MODIS, MOD16A2 |
| Global Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance | GCP, Hoffman |
| Gross Primary Productivity | FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM, WECANN |
| Ground Heat Flux | CLASS |
| Latent Heat | FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM, DOLCE, CLASS, WECANN |
| Leaf Area Index | AVHRR, AVH15C1, MODIS |
| Methane | FluxnetANN |
| Net Ecosystem Exchange | FLUXNET2015 |
| Nitrogen Fixation | Davies-Barnard |
| Permafrost | Brown2002, Obu2018 |
| Precipitation | CMAPv1904, FLUXNET2015, GPCCv2018, GPCPv2.3, CLASS |
| Runoff | Dai, LORA, CLASS |
| Sensible Heat | FLUXNET2015, FLUXCOM, CLASS, WECANN |
| Snow Water Equivalent | CanSISE |
| Soil Carbon | HWSD, NCSCDV22 |
| Surface Air Temperature | CRU4.02, FLUXNET2015 |
| Surface Downward LW Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN |
| Surface Downward SW Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN |
| Surface Net LW Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN |
| Surface Net Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN, CLASS |
| Surface Net SW Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN |
| Surface Relative Humidity | ERA5, CRU4.02 |
| Surface Soil Moisture | WangMao |
| Surface Upward LW Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN |
| Surface Upward SW Radiation | CERESed4.1, FLUXNET2015, GEWEX.SRB, WRMC.BSRN |
| Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly | GRACE |
IOMB-DATA list
| Alkalinity | GLODAP2.2022 |
| Anthropogenic DIC 1994-2007 | Gruber, OCIM |
| Chlorophyll | GLODAP2.2022, SeaWIFS, MODISAqua |
| Dissolved Inorganic Carbon | GLODAP2.2022 |
| Nitrate | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
| Oxygen | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
| Phosphate | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
| Salinity | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
| Silicate | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
| Temperature | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
| Vertical Temperature Gradient | WOA2018, GLODAP2.2022 |
ESMValTool compatible datasets
ESMValTool comes with a series of CMORiser for observational datasets. [The list of ALL available CMORisers can be found here] (Obtaining input data — ESMValTool 0.1.0.dev50+g1ed3327.d20231205 documentation)
ACCESS-NRI provides the following CMORised Tier 1 and Tier 2 datasets (Tier 3 are currently not available to the community, please contact ACCESS-NRI if you needs access to a Tier 3 dataset):
| long_name | datasets | name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Total Alkalinity | GLODAP, OceanSODA-ETHZ | talk |
| 1 | Surface pH | OceanSODA-ETHZ | phos |
| 2 | Surface Downward Mass Flux of Carbon as CO2 [kgC m-2 s-1] | GCP2018, GCP2020, Landschuetzer2016, OceanSODA-ETHZ | fgco2 |
| 3 | Total Column Ozone | ESACCI-OZONE | toz |
| 4 | TOA Outgoing Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | rlut |
| 5 | Surface Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Concentration | OceanSODA-ETHZ | dissicos |
| 6 | Surface Upwelling Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH | rsus |
| 7 | Primary Organic Carbon Production by All Types of Phytoplankton | Eppley-VGPM-MODIS | intpp |
| 8 | Grid-Cell Area for Ocean Variables | OceanSODA-ETHZ | areacello |
| 9 | Air Temperature | AIRS, AIRS-2-1, BerkeleyEarth, CFSR, CRU, CowtanWay, E-OBS, GHCN-CAMS, GISTEMP, GLODAP, HadCRUT3, HadCRUT4, HadCRUT5, ISCCP-FH, Kadow2020, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAAGlobalTemp, OceanSODA-ETHZ, PHC, WFDE5, WOA | ta |
| 10 | Convective Cloud Area Percentage | CALIOP, CALIPSO-GOCCP | clc |
| 11 | Near-Surface Air Temperature | BerkeleyEarth, CFSR, CRU, CowtanWay, E-OBS, GHCN-CAMS, GISTEMP, HadCRUT3, HadCRUT4, HadCRUT5, ISCCP-FH, Kadow2020, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAAGlobalTemp, WFDE5 | tas |
| 12 | Specific Humidity | AIRS, AIRS-2-1, HALOE, JRA-25, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | hus |
| 13 | Daily Maximum Near-Surface Air Temperature | E-OBS, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | tasmax |
| 14 | Percentage of the Grid Cell Occupied by Land (Including Lakes) | BerkeleyEarth | sftlf |
| 15 | Total Cloud Cover Percentage | CALIOP, CloudSat, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP, JRA-25, JRA-55, MODIS, MODIS-1-0, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, PATMOS-x | clt |
| 16 | Sea Surface Salinity | ESACCI-SEA-SURFACE-SALINITY, WOA | sos |
| 17 | Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ISCCP-FH, JRA-55 | rlds |
| 18 | Mole Fraction of CH4 | ESACCI-GHG, TCOM-CH4 | ch4 |
| 19 | Liquid Water Path | ESACCI-CLOUD, MODIS | lwp |
| 20 | Atmosphere CO2 | CT2019, ESRL, Scripps-CO2-KUM | co2s |
| 21 | Surface Downwelling Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ISCCP-FH | rsds |
| 22 | Ambient Aerosol Absorption Optical Thickness at 550nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL | abs550aer |
| 23 | Northward Near-Surface Wind | CFSR | vas |
| 24 | Near-Surface Relative Humidity | NCEP-NCAR-R1 | hurs |
| 25 | Sea Surface Temperature | ATSR, HadISST, WOA | tos |
| 26 | Sea Water Potential Temperature | PHC, WOA | thetao |
| 27 | Ambient Aerosol Optical Thickness at 550nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL, MODIS | od550aer |
| 28 | Ambient Aerosol Optical Depth at 870nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL | od870aer |
| 29 | Northward Wind | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | va |
| 30 | Sea Water Salinity | CALIPSO-GOCCP, ESACCI-LANDCOVER, ESACCI-SEA-SURFACE-SALINITY, PHC, WOA | so |
| 31 | Tree Cover Percentage | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | treeFrac |
| 32 | Ice Water Path | ESACCI-CLOUD | clivi |
| 33 | Precipitation | CRU, E-OBS, ESACCI-OZONE, GHCN, GPCC, GPCP-SG, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, PERSIANN-CDR, REGEN, SSMI, SSMI-MERIS, TRMM-L3, WFDE5 | pr |
| 34 | Surface Downwelling Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, JRA-55 | rldscs |
| 35 | Surface Downwelling Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF | rsdscs |
| 36 | Delta CO2 Partial Pressure | Landschuetzer2016 | dpco2 |
| 37 | TOA Outgoing Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | rsutcs |
| 38 | Sea Level Pressure | E-OBS, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | psl |
| 39 | CALIPSO Percentage Cloud Cover | CALIPSO-GOCCP | clcalipso |
| 40 | Surface Aqueous Partial Pressure of CO2 | Landschuetzer2016, Landschuetzer2020, OceanSODA-ETHZ | spco2 |
| 41 | Surface Upwelling Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD | rsuscs |
| 42 | Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Concentration | GLODAP, MOBO-DIC_MPIM, OceanSODA-ETHZ | dissic |
| 43 | Mole Fraction of N2O | TCOM-N2O | n2o |
| 44 | Percentage Cloud Cover | CALIOP, CALIPSO-GOCCP, CloudSat, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP, JRA-25, JRA-55, MODIS, MODIS-1-0, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, PATMOS-x | cl |
| 45 | Surface Upwelling Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH | rlus |
| 46 | Carbon Mass Flux out of Atmosphere Due to Net Biospheric Production on Land [kgC m-2 s-1] | GCP2018, GCP2020 | nbp |
| 47 | Total Dissolved Inorganic Phosphorus Concentration | WOA | po4 |
| 48 | TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH | rsdt |
| 49 | Omega (=dp/dt) | NCEP-NCAR-R1 | wap |
| 50 | Dissolved Oxygen Concentration | CT2019, ESACCI-GHG, ESRL, GCP2018, GCP2020, Landschuetzer2016, Landschuetzer2020, OceanSODA-ETHZ, Scripps-CO2-KUM, WOA | o2 |
| 51 | Percentage Crop Cover | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | cropFrac |
| 52 | Water Vapor Path | ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR, SSMI, SSMI-MERIS | prw |
| 53 | Geopotential Height | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | zg |
| 54 | Ambient Fine Aerosol Optical Depth at 550nm | ESACCI-AEROSOL | od550lt1aer |
| 55 | Eastward Wind | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | ua |
| 56 | Total Dissolved Inorganic Silicon Concentration | CFSR, GLODAP, HadISST, MOBO-DIC_MPIM, OSI-450-nh, OSI-450-sh, OceanSODA-ETHZ, PIOMAS, WOA | si |
| 57 | Mass Concentration of Total Phytoplankton Expressed as Chlorophyll in Sea Water | ESACCI-OC | chl |
| 58 | Natural Grass Area Percentage | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | grassFrac |
| 59 | Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air Temperature | E-OBS, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | tasmin |
| 60 | Condensed Water Path | MODIS, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | clwvi |
| 61 | TOA Outgoing Clear-Sky Longwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | rlutcs |
| 62 | Bare Soil Percentage Area Coverage | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | baresoilFrac |
| 63 | pH | GLODAP, OceanSODA-ETHZ | ph |
| 64 | Surface Carbonate Ion Concentration | OceanSODA-ETHZ | co3os |
| 65 | Surface Air Pressure | CALIPSO-GOCCP, E-OBS, ISCCP-FH, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | ps |
| 66 | Relative Humidity | AIRS-2-0, AIRS-2-1, NCEP-DOE-R2, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | hur |
| 67 | Surface Temperature | CFSR, ESACCI-LST, ESACCI-SST, HadISST, ISCCP-FH, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | ts |
| 68 | Eastward Near-Surface Wind | CFSR | uas |
| 69 | TOA Outgoing Shortwave Radiation | CERES-EBAF, ESACCI-CLOUD, ISCCP-FH, JRA-25, JRA-55, NCEP-NCAR-R1, NOAA-CIRES-20CR | rsut |
| 70 | Daily-Mean Near-Surface Wind Speed | CFSR, NCEP-NCAR-R1 | sfcWind |
| 71 | Surface Total Alkalinity | OceanSODA-ETHZ | talkos |
| 72 | Percentage Cover by Shrub | ESACCI-LANDCOVER | shrubFrac |