
Adapted from Eyring et al. 2016 (source: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1937-2016)
CMIP has been organised in different phases, each with new and improved climate model experiment protocols, standards, and data distribution mechanisms. CMIP6 is the most recent phase to release its modelling output data for general use, whilst the latest phase, CMIP7 is in its earliest organisational stages.
You can explore the pages for different CMIP phases here: