Downloading Climate Model Output from Web Sources

As you’ll see from reading through these pages, there are many different ways of accessing the output from climate models. Although it’s not really the most efficient when you’re working with large amounts of data, the most intuitive way for novice users to get started can be to try simply downloading a file or two from existing Web-based portals and playing around with them on your own machine. These tutorials will show you how to do this!

Walkthrough Tutorial #1: The CMIP6 Website

This tutorial walks you through the process of downloading data from the main CMIP6 website, maintained by the Earth System Grid Federation.

Walkthrough Tutorial #2: The CESM Large Ensemble Website

This tutorial walks you through the data download process for the CESM1 Large Ensemble, a web portal for which is maintained by the National Center for Atmospheric Research.