Updates / errata

ETCCDI indices have been updated for the most recent versions of CMIP5 model output files using the climdex.pcic software package. The indices are now available for the following CMIP5 experiments: historical, rcp26, rcp45, rcp60, rcp85. The newly computed indices are available in the same "CMIP5" sub-directory as before. The older CMIP5 indicies are moved to the "CMIP5_old" sub-directory.

ETCCDI indices from the FGOALS-s2 model are retracted from the archive on the request of the modelling group at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Beijing.

ETCCDI indices for 4 reanalyses are available for download.

Several computational problems are identified in some indices for the following models:

• CCSM4, historical/rcp26/rcp45/rcp85, r1i1p1, all precipitation based indices;
• CanESM2, historical, r2i1p1/r3i1p1, most temperature-based indices;
• bcc-csm1-1, historical, r1i1p1/r2i1p1, most temperature-based indices.

The affected indices are recomputed and replaced on Sep. 26, 2012.