Licensing of Met Office, NERC and UM Partners
CMIP6 data

The terms of use for CMIP6 data are outlined in the Guidance for Data Users and include a reference to the CMIP6 data license, present in every file. The original license was based upon the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA 4.0), with an option to specify Non-Commercial use.

The ShareAlike clause in this license was preventing, or was perceived to be preventing, our data from being used or included in new services and products which was not our intention.  We have therefore agreed a blanket relaxation of the license on all CMIP6 data published by the Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), National Institute of Meteorological Sciences/Korea Meteorological Administration (NIMS-KMA) and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to an equivalent one based upon the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0).

Equivalent relaxations have now been agreed for all data published to CMIP6 by all modelling groups. A summary of all licenses and their relaxations can be found via the CMIP6 Controlled Vocabularies github repository (follow link to the “source_id_licenses” page) and via the CMIP6 Citation Service pages (see table of links below).

All derived services and products are still required to cite our data following the guidance linked to above.

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ActivityModelOwning institutionDOIs and links to citation service
CMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1569
 HadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.419
 HadGEM3-GC31-MMMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.420
ScenarioMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1567
 HadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.10845
 HadGEM3-GC31-MMMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.10846
 UKESM1-0-LLNIMS-KMAdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.2250
AerChemMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1561
 UKESM1-0-LLNERCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.405
 UKESM1-0-LLNIWAdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1741
 UKESM1-0-LLNIMS-KMAdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.2243
C4MIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1562
CDRMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.12181
CFMIPHadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.435
DAMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.14830
 HadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.471
DCPPHadGEM3-GC31-MMMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.456
FAFMIPHadGEM3-GC31-LLNERCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.12065
HighResMIPHadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1901
 HadGEM3-GC31-LMMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1321
 HadGEM3-GC31-MMMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1902
 HadGEM3-GC31-MHMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1762
 HadGEM3-GC31-HMMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.446
 HadGEM3-GC31-HMNERCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1824
 HadGEM3-GC31-HHMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.445
 HadGEM3-GC31-HHNERCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1822
ISMIP6UKESM1-ice-LLNERCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.13423
LS3MIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.14462
 HadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.14460
LUMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1564
 HadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.14461
PMIPHadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.12067
RFMIPUKESM1-0-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.11061
 HadGEM3-GC31-LLMOHCdoi:10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.475