WCRP ESMO Infrastructure Panel (WIP)
The WIP is a panel of the Scientific Steering Group (SSG) of the ESMO Core Project charged with coordinating infrastructure support for CMIP (see “Terms of Reference“). It works with projects funded to develop software and supporting infrastructure that facilitates access to and analysis of the CMIP model output. It defines specifications and standards that ensure model output is written in a common structure and format, and that it is archived and made accessible worldwide in a common way. More generally, the WIP provides guidance and oversees infrastructure development so that it will be fit for its purpose and meet the scientific needs of CMIP and other non-CMIP activities, within the interests of the WCRP ESMO Core Project.
The WIP works closely with the CMIP Panel, which oversees the evolving design of the CMIP experiments and coordinates the various activities contributing to the science of CMIP.
A joint decision log for the CMIP Panel and WIP is publicly available by following this link. The decision log lists proposals which have been brought to the Panel and/or the WIP, the meeting in which the proposal was discussed, and whether the proposal was accepted or rejected. This log has been made publicly available to increase the transparency of the CMIP decision process and keep the community up-to-date on the planning of future CMIP phases.
WIP Task Teams and working groups
WIP Members
(as of September 2025)
Co-chair
James Anstey
Environment Canada
Canada
2025-, Co-chair 2025-
Co-chair
Matthew Mizielinski
Met Office
UK
2018-, Co-chair 2020-
Member/TT co-lead
Mario César Acosta Cobos
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Spain
2025-
Member/TT co-lead
Sasha Ames
LLNL
USA
2019-, CDNOT Co-chair 2021-
Member/TT co-lead
David Hassell
Member/QA QC WG liaison
Guillaume Levavasseur
Member/TT co-lead
Zebedee Nicholls
Climate Resource/IIASA
Austria
2025-
Member/TT co-lead
Charlotte Pascoe
Ex Officio (ESGF XC Co-chair)
Forrest Hoffman
Ex Officio (ESGF XC Co-chair)
Philip Kershaw
Ex Officio (FEoC)
Juliette Lavoie
Ex Officio (FEoC)
Elisa Ziegler
University of Tübingen
Germany
2025-
Emeritus member/TT co-lead (Data Request)
Martin Juckes
Emeritus member/TT co-lead (CVs)
Karl Taylor
PCMDI/LLNL
USA
2014-; Co-chair 2014-2020
TT co-lead (Data Request)
James Anstey
Environment Canada
Canada
2025-, Co-chair 2025-
TT co-lead (CDNOT)
Katharina Berger
DKRZ
Germany
2021- , CDNOT Co-chair 2021-
TT co-lead (Data Request)
Chloe Mackallah
TT co-lead (CVs)
Laurent Troussellier
Stakeholder - CORDEX
Jesús Fernández
Instituto de Física de Cantabria
Spain
2025-
Stakeholder - DKRZ
Andrea Lammert
Stakeholder - IPCC TG Data
Martina Stockhause
Former members
Paul Durack
PCMDI/LLNL
USA
2017, Co-chair 2021- 2025
Ghaleb Abdulla
LLNL
USA
2019-2021, ESGF-XC Co-chair 2018-2021
Yuqi Bai
Tsinghua University
China
2018-2024
V. Balaji
Princeton/GFDL
USA
Co-chair 2014-2019
Luca Cinquini
NASA
USA
2014-2019
Cecilia Deluca
NOAA
USA
2014-2019
Sébastien Denvil
IPSL
France
2014-2019, CDNOT Chair 2016-2019
Mark Elkington
Met Office
UK
2014-2017
Francesca Guglielmo
IPSL
France
2014-2022
Eric Guilyardi
IPSL
France
2014-2019
Michael Lautenschlager
DKRZ
Germany
2014-2021
Bryan Lawrence
NCAS
UK
2014-2019
Ruth Petrie
NCAS
UK
2019-2021, CDNOT Chair 2019-2021
Dean Williams
LLNL
USA
2014-2019
Grigory Nikulin
SMHI
Sweden
2021-2024
Slava Kharin
CCCma
Canada
2014-2024
