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
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 engagementto 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:
- 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.
- Explore ways to lighten and/or generalise CMIP processes for design, specification, and coordination among and between projects.
- Survey and synthesise activities and plans from existing activities including the evolving ESGF, the Pangeo community, and others.
- Identify opportunities for reuse and generalisation of data provisioning and access tools including encapsulation/containerization.
- 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 Nasser | Co-lead; 2023- | IPSL | France |
| Robert Pincus | Co-lead; 2023- | Columbia | USA |
| Lincoln Alves | Member; 2023- | INPE | Brazil |
| Muhammad Amjad | Member; 2023- | GCISC | Pakistan |
| Sebastien Denvil | Member; 2023- | ECMWF | UK |
| Bian He | Member; 2023- | Institute of Atmospheric Physics | China |
| Nana A. B. Klutse | Member; 2023- | AIMS Rwanda | Rwanda |
| Yinpeng Li | Member; 2023- | IGCI | New Zealand |
| Zane Martin | Member; 2023- | PWC | USA |
| Paola Nassisi | Member; 2023- | CMCC | Italy |
| Aparna Radhakrishnan | Member; 2023- | NOAA | USA |
| Ag Stephens | Member; 2023- | STFC | UK |
| Aiko Voigt | Member; 2023- | University of Vienna | Austria |
Activities
Open call for members closed in January 2023 – call text available here.
