Efforts to understand past climate and predict future climate change rely on computer climate models that include the physical processes of the climate system. The Paleoclimatology Program encourages the use of climate models to investigate the past, and supports rigorous comparisons between the output from numerical simulations and the paleoclimate data. The World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives climate model input and output files, and serves as a data management center for the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).

Obtaining Data at the WDC

• Climate Model Data and Visualization Page
• Climate Forcing
• Search Engine for Model Output
• Search Engine for Boundary Conditions
• Search by Contributor

Contributing Data

Other Data Archives

• CERA-WWW Gateway
• Internationale Paläoklima-Datenbankk
• National Center for Atmospheric Research
• UW Center for Climatic Research

Related Science Initiatives

• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
• National Center For Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP)