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Files have been generated using netcdf-c verion 4.4.1.1 and hdf5 version 1.10.1 libraries using NETCDF4 data model. The resulting files are NetCFD format and metadata is CF1.914 compliant allowing for string type NetCDF variables (used to define some attributes in the files, such as members). The attribute convention for data discovery is ACDD-1.315 compliant (including reference, geospatial, etc.).
Data is stored in different files for different experiments, scenarios and variables/indices (using the naming convention experiment scenario_index.nc{_}), including all members in the same file using the member attribute and the full time periods mentioned in Table 1. The original data files were compressed aggressively, which means that although the file size looks small, but the necessary memory to read the data from these files might be large.
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