decadal1990 is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 ( https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5 ). CMIP5 is meant to provide a framework for coordinated climate change experiments for the next five years and thus includes simulations for assessment in the AR5 as well as others that extend beyond the AR5.

                1.1 decadal1990 (1.1 10-year hindcast/prediction initialized in year 1990) - Version 1: The atmospheric composition (and other conditions) should  be prescribed as in the historical run (expt. 3.2) and the RCP4.5 scenario (expt. 4.1) of the long-term suite of experiments. Ocean initial conditions should be in some way representative of the observed anomalies or full fields for the start date.  Land, sea-ice and atmosphere initial conditions are left to the discretion of each group.

                Experiment design: https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/experiment_design.html  
                List of output variables: https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/datadescription.html  
                Output: time series per variable in model grid spatial resolution in netCDF format 
                Earth System model and the simulation information: CIM repository

                Entry name/title of data are specified according to the Data Reference Syntax ( https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/docs/cmip5_data_reference_syntax.pdf ) as activity/product/institute/model/experiment/frequency/modeling realm/MIP table/ensemble member/version number/variable name/CMOR filename.nc .