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Title:

Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA) Prototype CD

Source:

Climate Impacts Centre
School of Earth Sciences
Room 614, E7A
Macquarie University
New South Wales 2019, Australia

Description:

This CD-ROM contains preliminary assessment data, analysis and policy input from greenhouse model simulations put together by the MECCA Analysis Team based at Macquarie University. It represents the preliminary development of the MECCA Archive of Daily Data (MADD). The MECCA Analysis Team's primary tasks are to compare GCM evaluations of the present day and enhanced greenhouse climates, to assess uncertainty in these evaluations and to assist impacts modellers and policy advisors to incorporate these results into their assessment of the impacts of future climate change.

On this CD-ROM are daily sets of total precipitation and surface temperature from five Global Climate Models (GCMs) for the last 5 years of their simulations of the present-day climate and of enhanced greenhouse conditions. In addition, for the same five years, another six climate variables (mean sea level pressure, snow depth, evaporation, sea-ice extent, lowest model level air temperature, total cloud cover) are archived for one of the participating GCMs used. Other items on the CD-ROM include information and examples of the way in which the MECCA Analysis Team plans to fulfil its goals.

This CD-ROM can only be read and used on a Macintosh computer. Microsoft Word, HyperCard, and QuickTime software are required.