GFDL University Consortium

Web access to GFDL datasets is currently not available. The data that was lost in a hardware failure was somewhat antiquated and we are taking time to investigate putting newer model runs from GFDL online or perhaps waiting for the next generation model runs from GFDL to become available. If you need further information, feel free to email cdc.gfdlatlas@noaa.gov .

CDC Participation in the GFDL-University Consortium


The GFDL-University Consortium began in 1990 as a collaborative effort between the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (GFDL), other NOAA centers including the Climate Diagnostics Center, and several universities. The purpose of the consortium is to design and analyze a series of general circulation model (GCM) simulations to increase the understanding of the maintenance of regional climates and the atmospheric response to sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and other perturbations in the lower boundary.