Climate data host

The DKC has been a data centre for regional climate model projection data for a number of years.

We host and distribute data from the two European regional climate model (RCM) simulation projects PRUDENCE and ENSEMBLES, and have recently been appointed data centre for files from the on-going WCRP coordinated CORDEX project.

Several terabytes of data are stored in the archives which can be accessed by following the links in the resources box to the right.

Focus areas

Regional Climate Modelling

Global Climate Modelling

Ozone, UVR and Climate

Radio Occultations

Ice Sheet Modelling

Processes in the Arctic

Developing Countries

Climate Data Host

The climate data archives

Our archives have several daily visitors and are accessed by many different types of users; from researchers studying specific hydrological, wave, storm, or other effect models that need data on e.g. temperature, precipitation or radiation levels - to officials from provincial towns, municipalities and counties from all around Europe, that access the database for information about the future climatic development in their geographical area.

ENSEMBLES archive statistics from the past 12 months (from 11 May 2011)

The PRUDENCE initiative

The essence of the PRUDENCE project was to compile RCM data from different institutions using the same model area, so as to minimize uncertainties and to facilitate data comparison.

The database contains 20 different fields and generated 500GB of data, which are now contained within and accessible through the DKC archives.

ENSEMBLES data

When PRUDENCE ended in 2004, the 5-year long project ENSEMBLES was initiated with twice as high resolution and an uninterrupted projection period of 150 years. Integration areas were matched exactly as far as possible. More than 100 fields were included in the simulations that yielded over 22TB of data, which are also stored in and accessible through our archives.

The CORDEX project

The CORDEX project will include data from regions covering the entire globe and will become an even more comprehensive compilation of climate projection data. These data will also be made accessible from our archives as they become available. CORDEX is not limited to Europe, and many more different simulations are expected than in the previous projects. A rough estimate of the expected data volume is 100-200TB.



Follow the links in the resources box to the right to read more and to access the databases.

Contacts

For further information contact Ole Bøssing Christensen, obc@dmi.dk
Phone: (+45) 39157 426