Created by Charlotte, Feb 2015         Questions to: c.laufkoetter@gmail.com

This folder contains data from the model hindcasts on a 1deg grid and in monthly resolution. Each file 
contains data from several/all models but only one variable. The "...Full1.nc" files contain data from
the MAREMIP models (=nemuro, BEC, GFDL, Recom), and the "...Full2.nc" files contain data from the CMIP5
models (=pisces, Hadgem, CNRM, PELAGOS, UEA). 
The time period is 1998-2007 for the MAREMIP models and from 1998-2005 for the CMIP5 models. 

Model names are admittedly very confusing, but I don't have the time right now to re-write all the 
netcdf-files. So here is a list:

How I call them            Name of Institute       Name of Earth System Model      Name of ecosystem model

nemuro                     Hokkaido University          (MIROC)                    MRI.COM_MEM
BEC                        WHOI                           CESM                     BEC
GFDL                       GFDL                           GFDL                     TOPAZ
NASA                       not sure                     not sure                   not sure
JAMS                       JAMSTEC                      not sure                   COCO_MEM
pisces                     IPSL                           IPSL                     PISCES
Hadgem                     not sure                     HadGEM2_ES                 diat-HadOCC
CNRM                       not sure                      CNRM-CM5                  PISCES
PELAGOS                    CMCC                          CMCC_CESM                 PELAGOS
UEA                        UEA                           (IPSL)                    PlankTOM5.3
Recom                      AWI                          (MIROC)                    REcoM2

If data from a model is missing in a file, the reason is most likely that I couldn't find it in 
the model output or it belongs to the models that I didn't use (JAMS and NASA). For these models 
I also never did a quality check. 

The "climatologies" folder contains climatologies calculated from the monthly data. The 
climatologies of the nutrients are from 1990-1999, NPP and Chlorophyll are for the SeaWIFS 
area (1998-2007) for the Maremip models but 1998-2005 for CMIP5 models. 

The variables are:

surface Chlorophyll
NPP  - integrated over the upper 100m, in mol C/m2/yr
diatoms in Carbon
diatoms in Chl
Export of Carbon
surface NO3
surface PO4
surface SiO3

I have tried to name the lat/lon dimensions consistently, but I never needed accurate time dimensions. 
I also never took the time to figure out how to write human-readable time dimensions to netcdf-files. 
Therefore, do not draw any conclusions from the time dimensions, it is most likely not correct. 

One warning regarding the CMCC_CESM_PELAGOS data: The nutrient fields are somehow damaged and 
should not be used. However, last time I checked (about October 2014) they have not yet been 
updated on the CMIP5 server.