Climate Data Access Task Team

Co-leads: Atef Ben Nasser, IPSL  and Robert Pincus, Columbia

This task team will seek to smooth the path between the conception of experiments and the
use of the resulting data.

Challenge

Aim & Objectives

Members

Stakeholders

Activities

Challenge

The demand for and interest in CMIP data is growing rapidly with users coming from an increasingly diverse range of backgrounds beyond the climate research community including climate services, impact modelling, regional and local policy/decision makers and indigenous communities from across the globe. The CMIP6 Community Survey highlighted a number of opportunities  for increasing equitable access to, and the utility of CMIP data.

Aim & Objectives

This task team will build on the CMIP6 Community Survey feedback and conduct further community and stakeholder engagement to determine the data provisioning and access needs for CMIP7 and related activities. We will then prioritise key areas of action and work with users, CMIP-related infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders (e.g., IPCC) across the globe to deliver user co-created solutions. These will guide the implementation in the CMIP7 cycle, within the limitations of available or projected human and financial resources.

The aims of this TT are to:

  • Streamline and make the processes for supplying CMIP-compatible data more accessible.
  • Simplify the user experience for data provisioning, access, and use.
  • Facilitate community tool development.
  • Support wider access to compute and analysis platforms.
  • Reduce technical and resource-limitation barriers, particularly for those in the global south.

Early objectives will be:

  1. Identify key barriers to data provisioning and access across a wide range of roles, especially data providers and data users with varying levels of access to resources.
  2. Explore ways to lighten and/or generalise CMIP processes for design, specification, and coordination among and between projects.
  3. Survey and synthesise activities and plans from existing activities including the evolving ESGF, the Pangeo community, and others.
  4. Identify opportunities for reuse and generalisation of data provisioning and access tools including encapsulation/containerization.
  5. Explore a wide range of models for co-location of computational and data resources including the addition of computing to ESGF nodes, use of commercial and non-commercial clouds, and possibilities for leveraging intergovernmental or commercial interest in CMIP and related data.

Members

Atef Ben NasserCo-lead; 2023-IPSLFrance
Robert PincusCo-lead; 2023-Columbia UniversityUSA
Lincoln AlvesMember; 2023-INPEBrazil
Muhammad AmjadMember; 2023-GCISCPakistan
Sebastien DenvilMember; 2023-ECMWFUK
Sandro FioreMember; 2023-University of TrentoItaly
Bian HeMember; 2023-Institute of Atmospheric PhysicsChina
Adrian HinesMember; 2023-STFCUK
Nana A. B. KlutseMember; 2023-AIMS Rwanda; University of GhanaRwanda, Ghana
Yinpeng LiMember; 2023-IGCINew Zealand
Zane MartinMember; 2023-PWCUSA
Paola NassisiMember; 2023-CMCCItaly
Siyabonga NozwaneMember; 2023-South African Weather ServiceSouth Africa
Aparna RadhakrishnanMember; 2023-NOAAUSA
Addisu SemieMember; 2023-Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia
Aiko VoigtMember; 2023-University of ViennaAustria

Former members

Ag StephensMember; 2023STFCUK

Stakeholders

Christopher GoddardECMWF, UKProvisioning/Platform provider group
Jill ZhangLLNL, USAProvisioning/Platform provider group
Joe HammanEarthmover.io, USAProvisioning/Platform provider group
Julius BuseckeColumbia University, USAProvisioning/Platform provider group
Lee LimingANL, USAProvisioning/Platform provider group
Chunxue YangCNR, ItalyDownstream users group
Jeremy FykeECCC, CanadaDownstream users group
Magali TroinHydroclimat, FranceDownstream users group
Obbe TuinenburgUtrecht University, NetherlandsDownstream users group
Stefan LiessUniversity of Minnesota, USADownstream users group
Yi Chi WangAS-RCEC, TaiwanDownstream users group

Activities

Open call for members closed in January 2023 – call text available here.

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