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Articles | Volume 19, issue 18
Articles | Volume 19, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-8977-2026
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 18
Methods for assessment of models
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23 Sep 2026
Methods for assessment of models |  | 23 Sep 2026

CMIP6 data usage: lessons learned from more than 200 million downloads

Juliette Lavoie, Aude Carreric, Alistair Duffey, Giovanni Chellini, and Elisa Ziegler

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The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is a large collaborative project to better understand the Earth’s climate system. The data produced through this project is downloaded by users around the world. In this paper, we analyze the patterns of downloads and the usage of this massive dataset. From this analysis, we make some recommendations for future data production and usage tracking.
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