History of Changes Made to IPCC Standard Output
15 September 2004:
Noted that 3-hourly precipitation data should be averaged over the intervals 0-3Z, 3-6Z, ... 21-24Z, whereas the "snapshots" should be sampled at 0, 3, 6, ... 21Z.
Noted that stfmmc should exclude 'bolus velocity' contribution from the Gent-McWilliams parameterization.
3 September 2004:
Revised web links to be consistent with new PCMDI web site.
25 August 2004:
Clarified in the last table that yearly data (i.e., extreme indices) should be submitted for the same years as the monthly data.
2 August 2004:
Changed period for which 3-hourly data should be reported in the "pre-industrial control experiment" from "last year" to "last year of reported daily data (i.e., corresponding to year 2000 of the 20C3M expt.)".
Modified description of a few fields to make them clearer.
20 July 2004:
Changed years requested for the committed climate change experiment from tables A2a,b to be consistent with other experiments (i.e., 2046-2065, not 2031-2050).
19 July 2004:
Changed one of the experiment names in the last table of the document: 'climate of the 20th Century (20C3M)' was changed to 'climate of the 20th Century experiment (20C3M)'.
14 July 2004:
Added table of experiments and years of requested data.
Moved dimension table to near the end of the document.
Noted that "flux-correction" fields need to be reported only for a single year, assuming it applies to all experiments.
Noted that disk space constraints will likely limit quick access to monthly-mean 3-d ocean output to a single member of each ensemble.
Noted that daily data should only be reported for a single member of each ensemble, except for the surface air temperature (mean, max. and min.) and precipitation, which should be reported for all members.
5 July 2004: