Climate Rapid Evaluation Framework
Rapid Evaluation Framework for climate simulations
As climate models become increasingly complex, there is a need for systematic and comprehensive evaluation and benchmarking through comparison with best-available observational data to assess model fidelity across a wide range of variables.
Vision for the Rapid Evaluation Framework: A community owned evaluation framework, built upon, and compatible with, existing community evaluation packages that incorporates an application programming interface (API) for executing metrics generated from community evaluation packages, across the globe.
Goal: The CMIP7 Assessment Fast Track Rapid Evaluation Framework (CMIP7 AFT REF) will be a complete end to end system providing a systematic and rapid performance assessment of the expected models participating in the CMIP7 Assessment Fast Track, supporting the seventh IPCC Assessment Report (AR7) cycle.
Outcome: The REF provides the ability to fully integrate evaluation tools into the CMIP publication workflow, and their diagnostic outputs published alongside the model output on the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) through an easily accessible website.
Wider community use beyond CMIP: The REF is designed to be a starting point for the community to develop and build upon, with applications across the WCRP Modelling Multiverse and beyond.
See the CMIP7 Assessment Fast-Track REF announcement for more context.
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Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe
Netherlands eScience Center Knowledge Development project aiming to promote the use of ESMValTool and optimize its computational performance.
Providing the infrastructure to better understand and project climate variability and change
Overcoming the challenge of locality using a community multi-model environment
An innovative European regional ensemble climate prediction system
Metrics and Access to Global Indices for Climate Projections
Rapid Evaluation Framework for climate simulations