List of C3S GCMs and systems available for each year and month (hindcasts and forecasts)

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Hi everyone

I am wondering if there exists somewhere a record of what C3S GCMs and system versions are available for download for each year and month of the hindcast period (1993 - 2016) and forecast period (2017 - now). i.e. something along the line of:

year, month, GCM name, system versions

Or alternatively, a way to get this information programmatically somehow …

thanks for any pointer !

Nicolas

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Hi,
here some links of the climate projections datasets documentation available on the Climate Data Store:

Thanks

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Hi Michela,
the issue here, I had also the same question a couple of years ago, is the lack of a way to get all the valid combinations of GCMs, system version, variables, scenario…
In other words, if I want to download all the available data for a specific variable on CMIP6 (for example), I need to try all the combinations because there is no way to know which-model-provides-what. Sometimes, I find this info on github when some generous users share a piece of code with all the combinations she/he manually created .

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Hi Michela, Matteo

My apologies I should have been more clear, I was talking specifically about the seasonal forecasts datasets (i.e. ECMWF, UKMO, Meteo-France, DWD, CMCC, etc) … the system for any GCM changes from time to time, and I was wondering if there was a record of when (initial year and initial month over the 2017 - now period) systems had been introduced for each GCM available in that dataset …

Thank you !

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Hi,
please have a look here: Summary of available data - Copernicus Knowledge Base - ECMWF Confluence Wiki
Thanks

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Hi Michela

Thank you … am busy converting this into an excel spreadsheet that I can read programmatically :slight_smile:

cheers

Nico