RegCM EAS-22 evaluation data missing on ESGF

[jesusff]

Currently, there are no tasmax/min data on ESGF for RegCM:

https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/search/cordex-dkrz/?offset=0&limit=10&type=Dataset&domain=EAS-22&experiment=evaluation&variable=tasmax%2Ctasmin

At least from ICTP. It is only available from KNU using RegCM4-0_v4

[jesusff]

ICTP confirmed that the corresponding CORDEX-CORE evaluation run for EAS is the one by KNU

[JavierDiezSierra]

Fixed variables (orog, and land sea) are not available in ESGF for the KNU institution, and I'm not sure if the urban fraction file available in the nextcloud for the ICTP institution can be used for the KNU model.

Tasmin (KNU_RegCM) files and fixed files for ICTP_RegCM have no the same coordinates.

@jesusff @GLangendijk

[jesusff]

After e-mail exchange with Seok-Geun Oh and Prof. Suh (on Aug, 5th):

The model used in the "Evaluation" that you are interested in is RegCM4.0 with CLM3.5. It seems that the model configuration changed slightly as the research team in charge of the national research project was changed. [...] However, please refer to the attached image file for the configuration details of the model used in the "Evaluation". The final selected land model and CPS scheme are CLM3.5 and MIT-Emanuel, respectively, with other schemes remaining the same. Regrettably, there is no official English paper related to the model data output, and only Korean papers are available. [...] Additionally, as the Evaluation experiment was conducted almost 8 years ago, the relevant metadata files are no longer available due to storage capacity issues.

Configuration is in Table 1 of the paper above:

[jesusff]

Data from KNU evaluation are no longer available (temporary problem of the esgf.apcc21.org data node?) despite appearing on ESGF. For reference, the file metadata was:

netcdf tasmin_EAS-22_ECMWF-ERAINT_evaluation_r1i1p1_KNU-RegCM4-0_v4_day_19810101-19851231 {
dimensions:
    time = UNLIMITED ; // (1826 currently)
    y = 249 ;
    x = 394 ;
    bnds = 2 ;

variables:
        [...]
    float tasmin(time, y, x) ;
        tasmin:cell_methods = "time: minimum" ;
        tasmin:standard_name = "air_temperature" ;
        tasmin:long_name = "Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air Temperature" ;
        tasmin:units = "K" ;
        tasmin:grid_mapping = "Lambert_Conformal" ;
        tasmin:coordinates = "lon lat height" ;
        tasmin:missing_value = 1.e+20f ;
        tasmin:_FillValue = 1.e+20f ;
        [...]
    int Lambert_Conformal ;
        Lambert_Conformal:grid_mapping_name = "lambert_conformal_conic" ;
        Lambert_Conformal:longitude_of_central_meridian = 116.57f ;
        Lambert_Conformal:latitude_of_projection_origin = 34.4f ;
        Lambert_Conformal:standard_parallel = 20.f, 40.f ;
        Lambert_Conformal:false_northing = 0.f ;
        Lambert_Conformal:false_easting = 0.f ;

// global attributes:
        :tracking_id = "59c4da91-8d24-43e9-a154-63fb922f0ed0" ;
        :Conventions = "CF-1.4" ;
        :contact = "echang@kongju.ac.kr" ;
        :creation_date = "2020-05-11" ;
        :experiment = "Evaluation run with reanalysis forcing" ;
        :experiment_id = "evaluation" ;
        :driving_experiment = "ECMWF-ERAINT, evaluation, r1i1p1" ;
        :driving_model_id = "ECMWF-ERAINT" ;
        :driving_model_ensemble_member = "r1i1p1" ;
        :driving_experiment_name = "evaluation" ;
        :frequency = "day" ;
        :institution = "Kongju National University, Gongju, South Korea" ;
        :institute_id = "KNU" ;
        :model_id = "KNU-RegCM4-0" ;
        :RCM_version_id = "v4" ;
        :project_id = "CORDEX" ;
        :CORDEX_domain = "EAS-22" ;
        :product = "output" ;
        :references = "http://gforge.ictp.it/gf/project/regcm/" ;
}