Climate Experiment Time Coverage & Ensemble Size

The table below shows the ensemble size & time coverage for the climate experiments that are being made available through the FACTS website.

Experiment Identifiers Time Coverage

Number of Ensemble Members
Experiment Name File Name ID ECHAM5 CAM4 ESRL-GFSv2 GEOS-5 AM3 ESRL-CAM5.1 LBNL-CAM5.1
AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing amip_obs_rf Jan 1979-
Feb 2021

50
Jan 1979-
May 2015

20
Jan 1979-
Feb 2018

50
Jan 1871-
Aug 2014

12
Jan 1870-
Feb 2014

12
Jan 1900-
Feb 2019

40
Jan 1959-
Sep 2014

50
AMIP with 1880s Radiative Forcing amip_1880s_rf Jan 1979-
Feb 2019

50
Jan 1979-
Dec 2012

20
  Jan 1979-
Feb 2019

40
AMIP with Natural History Forcing amip_nat_hist Jan 1959-
Oct 2014

50
AMIP with Climatological Radiative Forcing amip_clim_rf Jan 1979-
Dec 2012

10
   
AMIP with Observed Radiative Forcing, Climatological Sea Ice and Polar SST amip_clim_polar Jan 1979-
Feb 2018

30
Jan 1979-
May 2015

20
Jan 1979-
Jun 2015

30
Jan 1979-
Apr 2017

20

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