Co-leads: Guillaume Levavasseur (IPSL) and Sasha Ames (LLNL)
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This joint working group of the WIP and ESGF is focused on enhancing the quality assurance and control of data prior to publication on ESGF. The working group will consult the community on, and implement, enhanced quality control (QC) software for checking climate model output to be published on ESGF, and used by downstream applications and services more widely.
Challenge
QA/QC software and tools used for previous CMIP phases and related activities are worked on in bursts, with little or no support after the initial phase of activity. There is currently no common framework for combining and configuring checks, as well as their results.
Aim & Objectives
Specifically, this activity aims to devise a framework for the implementation of community standards and guidelines via enhanced QC packages. This will facilitate the checking of data prior to publication on ESGF, including Assessment Fast Track data, taking into account community guidelines, as well as the data quality requirements of downstream services.
Initial aims and objectives of the WG:
- Identify and define the QA/QC requirements for the AR7 Fast Track.
- Review existing community solutions for consideration.
- Make recommendations to the WIP and ESGF XC on what tools should be used for QC prior to ESGF publication.
- Develop and provide a package to modelling groups to facilitate quality checks.
- Identify the QC steps needed within the ESG-Publisher.
- Regularly review and identify requirements for future evolution of synchronised identity information with regard to notification of users on errata/changes.
- Quality checking prior to publication and/or any other areas of relevance identified by the task team.
- Assess implications of, and provide feedback, proposals for changes to distribution of QA/QC relevant software packages.
- Provide recommendations and guidance to modelling centers on metadata quality, completeness and best practices.
Members
| Guillaume Levavasseur | Co-lead; 2024- | IPSL | France |
| Sasha Ames | Co-lead; 2024- | LLNL | USA |
| Ayoub Nachite | Member; 2024- | IPSL | France |
| Aparna Radhakrishnan | Member; 2024- | NOAA | USA |
| Atef Ben Nassar | Member; 2024- | IPSL | France |
| Bouwe Andela | Member; 2024- | eScience Center | Netherlands |
| Katharina Berger | Member; 2024- | DKRZ | Germany |
| Birgit Hassler | Member; 2024- | DLR | Germany |
| Charlotte Pascoe | Member; 2024- | STFC | UK |
| Christian Page | Member; 2024- | CERFACS | France |
| Julius Busecke | Member; 2024- | USA | |
| David Hassell | Member; 2024- | NCAS | UK |
| Paul Durack | Member; 2024- | LLNL | USA |
| Forrest Hoffman | Member; 2024- | ORNL | USA |
| Paul Gleckler | Member; 2024- | LLNL | USA |
| Jared Lewis | Member; 2024- | Climate Resource | Australia |
| Matthew Mizielinski | Member; 2024- | Met Office | UK |
| Swarnalee Mazumder | Member; 2024 | DKRZ | Germany |
| Chris Mauzey | Member; 2024 | LLNL | USA |
| Phillip Kershaw | Member; 2024- | STFC | UK |
| Martin Schupfner | Member; 2024- | DKRZ | Germany |
| Martina Stockhaus | Member; 2024- | DKRZ | Germany |
| Karl Taylor | Member; 2024- | LLNL | USA |
| Fabian Wachsmann | Member; 2024- | DKRZ | Germany |
Activities
Activities engaged in the initial phase: CMIP7 Fast Track and Rapid Evaluation Framework, CORDEX-CMIP6, C3S Climate Data Store and C3S Atlas, and cloud-based services using Zarr (including Pangeo).
For further information or to get involved with the working group contact:
Supporting this working group
If you are a funder, or an institution with software development capacity and would like to support the implementation activities working group, please contact the CMIP-IPO
