In order to save developpment and file preparation time, it has
been decided that the output format of the PMIP 2
project will follow the output format required for IPCC as closely as
possible.
It is expected that the same requirements will be imposed for other
projects in the climate models community, and the efforts required to
prepare the data for PMIP 2 will likely have long
term payoffs as similar model output is prepared for these other
projects.
The following sections give more details about what is required
exactly (and why!), how the PMIP 2 requirements
differ from IPCC, and how the use of the CMOR (Climate Model Output
Rewriter) library can help you meet the requirements.