Welcome to ESGF User Support’s documentation!

Contents:

• User Tutorials
  • Login/OpenID
    • Create an account
    • Join or Create a project
    • Authorization for ESGF data access
    • Logging in with OpenID
    • Forgot OpenID
    • Forgot Password
    • Update Password
    • Get your browser to accept the ESGF certificate
  • Data Search and Download
    • What the ESGF search returns
    • Searching with AND/OR in the search text boxes
    • Download a single file with the browser
    • Data Cart basics
    • Narrow a CMIP5 data search to just one variable
    • Download data from ESGF using Wget
    • Download and browse data from ESGF with OPeNDAP
    • Download data using Globus Online
    • The ESGF search RESTful API
  • Projects
    • Join a project (not required to download data)
    • View a project’s network
    • Search for projects by tag
    • Save a project tag and retrieve projects with that tag
    • View a project’s rollup
  • Wiki Editing
    • How to use the built-in wiki system
    • Add a new image to a wiki page
    • Add a pre-existing image to a wiki page
    • Add an HTML link (to a Project File) to a wiki page
    • Maximize the wiki window while editing
    • Make a wiki page private
    • Share a wiki page with Facebook or Twitter
  • Files
    • Upload a File
    • Update a File on the system
    • Update File metadata
    • Search for a File
    • Delete a File
  • Left Navigation Bar
    • Add links to wiki pages
    • Add links to non-CoG pages in the left navigation bar
    • Reorder the left navigation bar (admins only)
  • Resources
    • Resource basics
    • Add a Resource to an external URL
    • Add a Resource to a File (with File upload)
  • News
    • Add a news item
• FAQs
  • How to contact the modelling group
  • How to contact us
  • Data
    • What are ensembles?
    • Do means over ensembles exist?
    • Does an internationally common or recommended model exist?
    • Where can I find model descriptions and associated literature?
    • How can I find the definition of a variable?
    • What is the relation between Variable, CF Standard Name and Variable Long Name?
    • Where can I find CMIP scenarios?
    • Where are CMIP5 historicalAA data?
    • Where are CMIP5 historicalSl data?
    • Where can I find AR5 data?
    • Where are the SRES scenarios A1B, A2 and B1?
    • Where can I find more CORDEX 3-hourly or 6-hourly data?
    • Where are CORDEX regional climate models described?
    • Where can I find the land sea mask or landfrac?
    • Which grid resolutions do CMIP5 models have?
    • How can the MPI-M ocean grid be remapped?
    • Do all CMIP5 models use the same calendar?
    • How may I cite ESGF and CMIP data in my paper?
    • May CMIP5 historical and RCP data be combined to one long time series?
    • Which height levels do the data have?
    • Which heigth boundaries do CORDEX cloud layers have?
    • In which sequence are the data ordered inside a NetCDF file?
    • How can I verify that the data have not been updated since I downloaded them?
    • How can I read or process downloaded data?
    • I cannot process downloaded data
    • How can I calculate a multi-year average for each month of year?
    • How can CORDEX data on a grid with rotated poles be rotated back?
    • There seems to be missing data for some models.
    • What do ‘x’ and ‘y’ refer to in the ocean variables ‘hfx’ and ‘hfy’ in CMIP5?
  • ESGF General
    • What browsers does ESGF support?
    • Shall I use my personal certificate in the browser?
    • I get the error: “Secure Connection Failed” with Firefox
    • I have a question or error to report to ESGF
    • How can I subscribe/unsubscribe esgf-user@llnl.gov?
  • ESGF Wget
    • Is there any easy way to generate wget scripts for downloading lots of model data only during a certain period, such as 1950-2000?
    • Issues with Script Generation
    • General Wget Runtime Issues
    • Issues with Certificates or Java
    • Issues with Option -H
    • Network Issues
    • Checksum Issues or Command not Found
    • Wget Script File List Issues
    • Other Wget Script Issues
  • ESGF Login/Registration
    • Do I have to have a user account to search for data?
    • Do I need to join the project serving the data?
    • Which group membership is necessary for download of ESGF data?
    • My group memberships are not shown
    • I am getting a security warning when trying to login
    • I get a Java error on login
    • The project I have navigated to does not have a search widget?
    • I cannot login with my OpenID issued by pcmdi.llnl.gov
    • I cannot login with my OpenID created before January 2016
    • I get the error: “Cannot resolve openid”
    • I get the error: “OpenID Discovery Error: unrecognized by the Identity Provider”
    • My new OpenID is not available in Firefox
    • I have not received an email confirming my registration
  • ESGF Search
    • How do I find data?
    • I don’t find the expected data
    • I get the error: “transaction aborted undefined”
  • ESGF Download
    • How can I get data for a specified area only?
    • Does ESGF support OPeNDAP downloads?
    • I can’t add data to my DataCart
    • Where can I get data on media?
    • HTTP Download links are not working (in Chrome)
• Metagrid (Beta): Introduction/FAQ
  • Metagrid: an introduction
  • Several new features
  • Known Issues
  • Metagrid FAQ
    • General
    • Search
    • User accounts
    • Downloads
• ESGF Video Tutorials
  • ESGF Data Access
  • NSC/LiU Download
  • Webinar Series

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page