This repo a Python intake catalog for data from the RFMIP "rad-irf" experiements.
The catalog's structure is shown below. All models provided longwave variables (rlu, rld). All of the parameterized models and some of the benchmark models also provided shortwave variables (rsu, rsd). The catalog also contains the inputs, i.e. the profiles of temperature, humidity, and gas concentrations used in the radiative transfer calculations.
We have not found remote access to data from the ESGF to be robust so the catalog uses local copies of the
data. The local data can be populated by invoking the download_with_pooch.py script; availablity
can be confirmed by running report_availability.py
graph TD;
main-->inputs;
main-->benchmark;
main-->parameterized;
benchmark-->LBLRTM;
benchmark-->ARTS;
benchmark-->4AOP;
benchmark-->HadGEM3_p2,p3;
parameterized-->CanESM5;
parameterized-->HadGEM3_p1;
parameterized-->GISS-E2-1;
parameterized-->GISS-E3;
parameterized-->RTE-RRTMGP;
parameterized-->RRTMG;
parameterized-->MIROC6;