The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) project, through its Working Group on Coupled Models’ (WGCM) CMIP panel and WGCM infrastructure panel (WIP), has established a number of Task Teams to support the design, scope, and definition of the next phase of CMIP and evolution of CMIP infrastructure and future operationalisation.
Active task teams
The currently active task teams are:
- Climate Data Access Co-leads: Atef Ben Nasser, IPSL and Robert Pincus, Columbia
- Climate Data Citation Co-leads: Sasha Ames, LLNL and Martina Stockhause, DKRZ
- Climate Data Request Co-leads: Martin Juckes, STFC and Chloe Mackallah, CSIRO
- Climate Forcings Co-leads: Paul Durack PCMDI/LLNL and Vaishali Naik, NOAA
- Climate Model Benchmarking Co-leads: Birgit Hassler, DLR and Forrest Hoffman, ORNL
- Climate Model Documentation Co-leads: David Hassell, NCAS and Guillaume Levavasseur, IPSL
- Strategic Ensemble Design Co-leads: Ben Sanderson, CICERO and Isla Simpson, NCAR
