DATASET NAME:  CESM ATM

DATASET OWNER’S NAME AND CONTACT: Mark Taylor (SNL)

ARRAY DIMENSION:  2D for 1800x3600, 3D for 26x1800x3600 
(26): highest dimension (slowest changing)
1800: higher dimension (slower changing)
3600: lower dimension (faster changing)

Note that each array in the dataset with dimensions 26x1800x3600 actually is composed of 26 images (each 1800x3600), so it actually exhibits 2D feature, which means that treating them as 2D data rather than 3D data may lead to better compression quality.

DATAPOINT NUMBER: 1800x3600 and 26x1800x3600

DATA NATURE (INTEGER or DECIMAL): DECIMAL
ROW AND COLUMN NAMES:  X and Y
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DATASET: 
Simulation of the climate in Atmosphere under the CESM model. 

ENDIAN FORMAT (LITTLE or BIG): Little endian
PRECISION (DOUBLE or SINGLE): single precision
ADDITIONAL GRAPHS: 
One image called CLDLOW_1800X3600.png shows the image of the field CLDLOW.
Some images can also be found in the paper "An Efficient Approach to Lossy Compression with Pointwise Relative Error Bound" and "Z-checker: A Framework for Assessing Lossy Compression of Scientific Data". 

Other notes:
SDRBENCH-CESM-ATM-1800x3600.tar.gz contains the orginal raw data.
SDRBENCH-CESM-ATM-cleared-1800x3600.tar.gz replaces all background data by 0, because the background data can be recognized in another way and they don't need to be compressed according to users.